Reinhard Ernst Museum
The Museum Reinhard Ernst is an abstract art museum in Wiesbaden, Germany, situated on the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Rheinstraße, to the north of the Hesse Ministry of Finance building and Hesse Museum of Natural History. The museum features around 60 works collected by entrepreneur Reinhard Ernst, from his collection of some 960 works. It was opened in June 2024 by the Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Foundation, which Ernst runs with his wife Sonja.
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- 2024
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- Wiesbaden
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- Reinhard & Sonja Ernst-Stiftung
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The Museum Reinhard Ernst is an abstract art museum in Wiesbaden, Germany, situated on the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Rheinstraße, to the north of the Hesse Ministry of Finance building and Hesse Museum of Natural History. The museum features around 60 works collected by entrepreneur Reinhard Ernst, from his collection of some 960 works. It was opened in June 2024 by the Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Foundation, which Ernst runs with his wife Sonja.
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The founding director is Oliver Kornhoff.
Ernst Museum, Wiesbaden, atrium
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Ernst Museum, Wiesbaden, interior
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• Name — Museum Reinhard Ernst • Location — Wilhelmstraße 1, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany • Type — Art museum • Architect — Fumihiko Maki • Director — Oliver Kornhoff • Website — museum-re.de • Illustration — Museum Reinhard Ernst
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• Illustration — The exterior of the museum The 9700 m2 three-storey museum was designed by the late Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki with a white granite cube-shaped facade. There are approximately 2,500 m2 available for exhibition space, with rooms up to 13 m high.
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2024
Reinhard Ernst Museum established.
2024
Reinhard Ernst Museum is recorded from 2024.
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The museum is named after entrepreneur Reinhard Ernst exhibiting abstract paintings and sculptures which are part of his art collection. Artwork featured in the collection includes around 60 works from artists such as Tony Cragg, Helen Frankenthaler, Karl Otto Götz, Hans Hartung, Damien Hirst, Yuichi Inoue, Morris Louis, Jackson Pollock, Neo Rauch, Judit Reigl, Pierre Soulages, Toko Shinoda, Frank Stella Atsuko Tanaka and Wolfgang Tillmans. There is a collection of paintings in particular by American artist Helen Frankenthaler; Ernst owns the largest collection of hers in the world with 52 of her paintings. • Illustration — Jan Teunen delivers a lecture at the Visual Science of Art Conference at the Museum Reinhard Ernst Glass works by Katharina Grosse, MadC, Karl-Martin Hartmann and Bettina Pousttchi are in the museum's foyer, and there are also sculptures by Eduardo Chillida in the inner courtyard. The museum also hosts events, exhibitions and educational activities for children.
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- 1.Geier, Barbara. Museum Reinhard Ernst: A white cube full of colour. Discovergermany.com. July 2024.
- 2.Dezeen.com. Museum Reinhard Ernst by late architect Fumihiko Maki revealed in Dezeen video. 20 June 2024.
- 3.Inside Reinhard Ernst's Temple to Abstract Art. Town & Country. 2025-04-11.
- 4.The Art Newspaper. Collector Reinhard Ernst's abstract art gets a new home in Germany. 20 June 2024.
- 5.Acha, Gabriela. Must-See: Helen Frankenthaler Channels Motion into Form. Frieze. 2025-04-04.
- 6.Wiesbaden.de. Reinhard Ernst Museum.
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