Feininger-Galerie

The Lyonel Feininger Gallery is a museum and exhibition space for 20th century art and contemporary artists. It is devoted in particular to the work of Lyonel Feininger. With the collection of the former Bauhaus student and citizen of Quedlinburg, Dr. Hermann Klumpp, made available to the Lyonel Feininger Gallery on permanent loan, it houses one of the most comprehensive collections in the world of the graphic work of Feininger. Numerous watercolors and drawings as well as a number of photographs and objects handcrafted by the artist himself enrich this collection. Within its accumulation of early paintings, the collection includes the "Self-Portrait with Clay Pipe" from the year 1910 as well as the early major work influenced by Cubism, "Vollersroda I".

The collection is augmented by works of other artists from the Classical Modern period, including Lovis Corinth, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Emil Nolde. Also to be noted in this regard are works offered to Quedlinburg on permanent loan by the German Foundation for Monument Protection in the year 2005. The holdings of the Gallery include as well a significant collection of graphic works produced by artists of the German Democratic Republic.

The Lyonel Feininger Gallery, opened in 1986 and expanded with a new addition in 1997, is prominently situated within the historical ensemble of the city at the foot of the imposing castle hill. Here it offers a striking contrast to the predominantly medieval old city of Quedlinburg, which was designated in 1994 as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The museum's status since 2006 is that of an independent entity within the Moritzburg Foundation, a state museum complex of Saxony-Anhalt, where the Feininger Gallery is to be counted as one of the treasures of the German museum landscape.