For art buffs, the history of the Folkwang Museum is fascinating – but its significance stretches way beyond the narrow confines of the art world. The Folkwang’s fall and rise isn’t just a story about ...

A retired German nurse came up with an unusual way to make a gift to a museum she loved. Before she died, at age 82, Jutta Franke drew up papers to bequeath her house to the Folkwang Museum, in Essen, ...

“I didn't want to create PHOTOGRAPHS, but MAPS, PLANS that at the same time were meant to be photographs.” (Luigi Ghirri) Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) ranks among the trailblazers of ...

David Chipperfield Architects have completed an extension to the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. The new building is clad in blocks of recycled glass and consists of six structures, organised ...

The art movement was considered "diseased" until Essen's Folkwang Museum rallied to the cause, buying and displaying the novel works. A new exhibition at Folkwang looks back at expressionism's early ...

Museum Folkwang in Essen, recently restored by star architect David Chipperfield, has recreated for the first time the collection it housed prior to the Nazi period. DW spoke with museum director ...

Under the direction of guest professor Marina Abramovic, 24 students are developing extensive performances. The fun part: peeling potatoes together. I am sitting at a large table in the Museum ...

One of the other strengths that normally distinguish Chipperfield’s architecture, however, suffers from the restraint exercised here: namely his usually sensitive treatment of materials and ...

“Ruhr.2010 - European Capital of Culture” is the name of the project with which Essen and the Ruhr are confronting changing times. The “Pott”, as the area is affectionately known in Germany, is ...

What is it that David Chipperfield uniquely does? … He does architecture better than any of his contemporaries, says Rory Olcayto On his death bed, Reyner Banham, our finest critic, made one last ...