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Leopold-Hoesch-Museum

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Birgel–Rölsdorf Cycle Path – Marienkapelle Rölsdorf loop from Annakirmesplatz

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2. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum – Weir on the Rur River loop from Derichsweiler

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Kreis Düren

July 10, 2023

Photo: Dennis Stratmann, Grünmetropole e.V.
The Leopold Hoesch Museum is a museum for fine arts. His collection includes important works of classical modernism, concrete art, the ZERO movement and contemporary art. It features modern and contemporary art exhibitions and themed exhibitions. As the art museum of the city of Düren, which has been an important location for the industrial production and processing of paper since the 18th century, the LHM also houses a large graphic collection and works of paper art in addition to paintings and sculptures. Structurally, it is closely linked to the neighboring paper museum in Düren, which is technically and culturally-historically oriented.

The LHM sees itself as an open place for cultural and social exchange that invites its visitors to engage with works of art and to discuss current topics. Originally set up as a universal museum in the tradition of a civic educational institution, the institution was donated to the city of Düren in 1905 by the Leopold Hoesch family. The entrepreneur Leopold Hoesch, born in Düren in 1820, came from the Düren industrial dynasty of the same name, which expanded into the Ruhr area with the founding of the Hoesch AG iron and steel works in Dortmund in 1871.
As one of the few buildings that survived the widespread destruction of Düren in 1944, the neo-baroque Art Nouveau building by the architect Georg Frentzen is now part of the city's cultural heritage. In 2010 it received a generous extension by the architect Peter Kulka.

After the war, the Museumsverein Düren made it its task to promote the development of the collection through purchases, endowments and donations of works of art. The collections also experienced significant growth through the founding of the Günther Peill Foundation and the Hubertus Schoeller Foundation in 1986 and 2004, respectively, which have actively supported the work of the LHM ever since.
In accordance with its public mandate as the city of Düren’s art museum, its collaboration with national and international institutions, cultural workers and artists, and its structural connection with the Düren Paper Museum, the LHM is a discourse platform for Düren’s urban society and for the cultural landscape of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion , in whose institutional network Very Contemporary it is involved (leopoldhoeschmuseum.de/de).

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Felix Hausner

September 18, 2023

Beautiful museum of fine arts, both from the outside and from the inside!

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Roland

May 12, 2025

A visit to the Paper and Hoesch Museum is worth a visit and a detour.

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Leopold-Hoesch-Museum

1. Birgel–Rölsdorf Cycle Path – Marienkapelle Rölsdorf loop from Annakirmesplatz

2. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum – Weir on the Rur River loop from Derichsweiler

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