The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an fine art museum in Karlsruhe , Germany. Its collection consists of works by mainly German, French, Flemish and Dutch masters from the past eight centuries. The museum was conceived in the early 19th century by Heinrich Hübsch as a “Gesamtkunstwerk” combining architecture, painting and sculpture to house the collection of the Grand Duke of Baden .
5-605: The Kunsthalle Karlsruhe was one of the first museum buildings in Germany and is one of the very few to have largely retained its original design. Built by the architect Heinrich Hübsch between 1836 and 1846 as the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery and extended in several phases, it is one of the oldest museum buildings in Germany. It was created especially for the extensive art collection of the Baden royal family,
10-723: The 20th century is displayed in the nearby building of the Botanical Gardens' former orangery . The museum notably displays paintings by the Master of the Karlsruhe Passion , Matthias Grünewald (most notably the Tauberbischofsheim Altarpiece ), Albrecht Dürer , Hans Baldung , Lucas Cranach the Elder , Hans Burgkmair , Rembrandt , Pieter de Hooch , Peter Paul Rubens , David Teniers
15-729: The Younger , Hyacinthe Rigaud , Claude Lorrain , Nicolas Poussin , Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , Eugène Delacroix , Gustave Courbet , Édouard Manet , Camille Pissarro , Claude Monet , Edgar Degas , Auguste Renoir , Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin , Caspar David Friedrich , Hans Thoma , Lovis Corinth , August Macke , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Erich Heckel , Franz Marc , Jean-Marc Nattier , Max Pechstein , Max Ernst , Kurt Schwitters , Juan Gris , Yves Tanguy , Robert Delaunay , Otto Dix and Fritz von Uhde . Heinrich H%C3%BCbsch Heinrich Hübsch (9 February 1795 – 3 April 1863)
20-564: The basis of which is the so-called Mahlerey-Cabinet of Markgravine Karoline Luise (1723-1783). The museum, created by Heinrich Hübsch, opened in 1846 after nine years of work in a neoclassical building next to the Karlsruhe Castle and the Karlsruhe Botanical Garden . This historical building with its subsequent extensions now houses the part of the collection covering the 14th to the 19th centuries while
25-839: Was a German architect. After studies in Heidelberg (1813–15) and at Friedrich Weinbrenner 's school of architecture in Karlsruhe (1815–17) he traveled extensively in Greece and Italy (1817–24). In 1831 he was appointed Oberbaurat (inspector of buildings) at Karlsruhe. He designed many churches and other public buildings, mainly in the Grand Duchy of Baden , and is also known for his writings. In his book In welchem Style sollen wir bauen? ( In which style should we build? , 1828) he distanced himself from Weinbrenner's neoclassical style . Die altchristlichen Kirchen (Karlsruhe, 1862)
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