The Museum Folkwang in Essen has a current building by David Chipperfield, chosen in March 2007 in a competition run by the City of Essen. The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation financed the 55 million euro reconstruction. The extension was designed in 2007 and opened in January 2010. The infobox gives the museum's establishment as July 9, 1902, but the text says it was formed in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, founded in 1906, with Karl Ernst Osthaus's 1902 museum in Hagen.
The article names no style or materials. The new building adds 172,000 square feet (16,000 square meters).
The museum had 800,000 visitors in 2010, and Peter Gorschlüter became director in 2018. It holds 19th- and 20th-century art, photography, prints and posters. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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