The museum is dedicated to landscape painter Otto Modersohn (1865-1943) and presents his oeuvre on 5400 sqf. in thematically circling exhibitions.
The Artist
Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn, born in 1865, was a German landscape painter and the co-founder of the Worpswede Art Colony. His extraordinarily extensive oeuvre that has it’s roots in the 19th century and the French landscape painting, is subdivided into his early, main and late work. It consists of estimated 12 000 paintings and drawings, including his master pieces that are regularly exhibited here in Fischerhude, the village of the artist’s latest residency.
State of the Art
Based on the reconstruction of a series of half-timbered barns the museum’s generous showrooms attract by means of their modern interior and highly developed technologies.
Classical elements as well as contemporary museum’s standards are uniquely combined, thus creating an architecture that marvelously blends with its surroundings. The energy budget is climate-neutral already.
Admidst broad plains
The museum is located in the middle of the Fischerhude meadows, the landscape that inspired Modersohn to new artistic explorations since 1908.
“The Modersohn-Museum is sensibly located at the end of a broad wetland meadow - and that means in Low German dialect: in the Breden-Au. With sure instinct, Christian Modersohn [founder] chose this remarkable beautiful place, typical of the landscape. We are pleased with the difference to an urban painting gallery.”
Gerhard Müller-Menckens, architect
This landscape, which has hardly changed until today, makes the encounter with Modersohn's art a remarkable experience.
The village had a fairytale impact on me
Otto Modersohn
Since 1974
The estate museum was founded by Modersohn's son Christian Modersohn and his wife Anna. It has been family-run for nearly fifty years. Originally planned to make Modersohn's art accessible to the general public, the museum has evolved beyond an estate museum in the traditional sense.
Christian Modersohn, 1976
It has been able to expand and modernize, adding considerably to its collection over time and thus developing into a nationwide known house. First-class curated special exhibitions highlight individual aspects of his diverse oeuvre.
