Museum Kunst der Westküste
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| Established | 2009 |
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| Location | Hauptstraße 1, 25938 Alkersum/Föhr, Germany |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 45,000 (2010) |
| Founder | Frederik Paulsen Jr. |
| Director | Thorsten Sadowsky |
| Architect | Sunder-Plassmann Architekten |
| Website | Museum Kunst der Westküste |
The Museum Kunst der Westküste (Museum of West Coast Art) is a non-profit foundation, located in Alkersum on the north Frisian island, Föhr. The museum collects, researches, communicates and exhibits art that deals with the themes of sea and coast. The museum began with a collection of paintings donated by the museum’s founder, Frederik Paulsen, chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
The Sammlung Kunst der Westküste (Collection of West Coast Art) comprises Danish, German, Dutch and Norwegian art. Executed between 1830 and 1930, the works document life along the continental North Sea coast. Scandinavian and German artists of the 19th and 20th centuries are represented, including Anna Ancher, Michael Ancher, Max Beckmann, Johan Christian Dahl, Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Krohg, Max Liebermann, Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.
The collection contains works by Dutch painters such as the Romantic artist, Andreas Schelfhout, and members of The Hague School, Jozef Israëls and Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Johan Barthold Jongkind and Eugène Boudin, who are regarded as precursors of Impressionism and important to the development of European landscape painting in the 19th century, are also represented. Finally, a main focus of the collection is North Frisian painting, represented by the works of and .
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