Landesmuseum Mainz
The origins of the Landesmuseum date back to the French period (1798 – 1814). It was Napoleon Bonaparte who, in 1803, left the city of Mainz the so-called “French Bequest”: 36 paintings which the revolutionary troops had confiscated elsewhere. This formed the basis for what, during the past 200 years, developed into the most important art collection in today's federal state Rhineland-Palatinate.
The art and cultural-historical collections of the Landesmuseum extend from the Stone Age to the present. Among the exhibits on display are gold jewellery, shields and swords from prehistoric epochs, Roman stone monuments, sculptures and tables from the Middle Ages, Renaissance paintings and art, Baroque furniture and porcelain, unique pieces from the 19th century and art nouveau treasures, Modern art works by Liebermann, Slevogt, Corinth, Beckmann or Picasso.
Equally worth seeing: The impressive baroque ensemble of the museum with ist modern glass and steel structures alone, as well as the electoral stabels and the indoor riding hall are worth a visit.
Landesmuseum Mainz
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The graphic technique of etching unfolds its full splendor after a further development in the first half of the 17th century. Still considered an inferior technique to copperplate engraving by famous ...
As in most museums, many objects in the Mainz Landesmuseum are in storage most of the time. This is particularly true of the Prints and Drawings Collection with its light-sensitive holdings, of which ...
The starting point is the painting "Blauer Aufbruch" (Blue Awakening), which was presented by Otto Greis in 1952 in the famous exhibition in the Zimmergale¬rie Franck in Frankfurt am Main. The title ...
There are impressive, harrowing, and in many parts incomplete stories associated with the artworks in the Landesmuseum Mainz and their former owners, which will be told in this show. The cabinet ...
Musical figures, tasty fruits or the haptics of surfaces - works of art not only appeal to our sense of sight. How are the five senses addressed in early modern art? And how do objects, paintings, and ...
In contrast to Trier and Cologne with numerous mosaic floors from Roman times, Mainz was long considered a mosaic-less city. In a joint project, Landesarchäologie Mainz and Landesmuseum Mainz now want ...
