Germany Guide
North Rhine-Westphalia
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Address: Museumsmeile
Opening time: Tues & Thurs– Sun 11am–6pm, Wed 11am–9pm
Price: €5
Website: www.bonn.de/kunstmuseum
The most architecturally refined of the Museumsmeile's museums is the Kunstmuseum Bonn, whose starkly beautiful modernist interior provides a fitting home for its collection of works by August Macke and the Rhine Expressionists. Macke, who was born in 1887 and killed in action in France in 1914, grew up in Bonn but was no mere "regional" artist, as his gorgeous, colour-filled canvases demonstrate: poignantly, the most confident are the 1914 Tightrope Walker and Turkish Café. The museum's upper floor is devoted to post-1945 German art, with works by heavyweights including Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Joseph Beuys.