De Küppersmühle
The Museum Küppersmühle is a museum of modern art in the German city of Duisburg. The museum was founded in 1999 in an old grain store at the Duisburgse Innenhafen. Collection
The museum is exhibited in 13 spaces of a total of 2500 m² of works of art from the 1950s. The works of art, mainly paintings, are from different artists, including Georg Baselitz. In addition, the works of art include Joseph Beuys, Karl Otto Götz, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, A. R. Penck, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. Building
The museum is located in a former grain warehouse at the Innenhafen, the old port of Duisburg. The grain storage facility was part of a mill company, which also included a boiler house with chimney and a silo (the latter has now been demolished). In 1969, the building received its current name when the mill company was acquired by Küpper. In 1972 the mill was shut down. At the end of the 90's, the building, after a design by Herzog architectural firm & amp; de Meuron, converted into museum. Externe link
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