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The history of the museum

  • 1986 Foundation and official opening
  • 1993 Laying of the foundation stone for the extension (additional exhibition space, storage facilities)
  • 1997 Re-opening
  • 1998 Foundation of the friends association
  • 2006 Gallery is integrated into the Saxony-Anhalt regional art museum, run by the Moritzburg Castle foundation in Halle
  • 2006 Harzsparkasse bank becomes the main sponsor of the Lyonel Feininger Gallery
  • 2007 Start of renovation work at Schlossberg 11 and construction of a new wing
  • 2008 Opening of the Klopstock summer house
  • 2013 Opening of the renovated Schlossberg 11 venue and the new side wing with additional exhibition space and a studio for art education
  • 2014 Lyonel Feininger Gallery becomes part of the Foundation for the Cathedrals and Castles of Saxony-Anhalt, which becomes Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt in 2017. The gallery concept is extended to create a museum of graphic art.
  • 2017 Cooperation with the World Heritage town of Quedlinburg to develop the site of the municipal copperplate collections
The municipal museum, built in Historicist style in 1901; the site of what would later be the Feininger Gallery, photographed in 1979, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
The municipal museum, built in Historicist style in 1901; the site of what would later be the Feininger Gallery, photographed in 1979
View of the unrenovated Schlossberg 11 site, 1991, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
View of the unrenovated Schlossberg 11 site, 1991
Laying the foundation stone for the extensive extension on 12 September 1993, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
Laying the foundation stone for the extensive extension on 12 September 1993
Extension under construction, 1994, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
Extension under construction, 1994
1997 return of Lyonel Feininger’s works, which had been kept elsewhere during construction, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
1997 return of Lyonel Feininger’s works, which had been kept elsewhere during construction
Re-opening of the Lyonel Feininger Gallery after the construction work with the 1997 exhibition "Crystal. Metaphor of Art”, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
Re-opening of the Lyonel Feininger Gallery after the construction work with the 1997 exhibition "Crystal. Metaphor of Art”
Foundation of the Lyonel Feininger Gallery friends association on 27 November 1998, with Dr Eberhardt Brecht, Dr Ingrid Wernecke, Detlef Mahlo and Wolfram Kullik, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
Foundation of the Lyonel Feininger Gallery friends association on 27 November 1998, with Dr Eberhardt Brecht, Dr Ingrid Wernecke, Detlef Mahlo and Wolfram Kullik
Since it was opened in 2008, the Klopstock summer house has been used as a venue for special events, Photo: Jürgen Meusel
Since it was opened in 2008, the Klopstock summer house has been used as a venue for special events
The Schlossberg 11 site after its renovation in 2013, Photo: Ludwig Rauch
The Schlossberg 11 site after its renovation in 2013.