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The Klassik Stiftung Weimar (''Classical Foundation Weimar'') is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in
Germany
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. It owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are
World Heritage Sites
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.
[Klassik Stiftung Weimar. About us.]
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It focuses on the
Weimar Classicism
Weimar Classicism (german: Weimarer Klassik) was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after t ...
period, but also covers 19th and 20th century art and culture with properties associated with
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
,
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...
,
Henry van de Velde
Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium.'' ...
and the
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...
.
Eleven of its properties are listed as part of the
Classical Weimar World Heritage Site and the
Haus am Horn
The Haus am Horn is a domestic house in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. It was built for the Bauhaus ''Werkschau'' (English: ''Work show'') exhibition which ran from July to September 1923. It was the first building based on Bauhaus des ...
is part of the
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau is a World Heritage Site in Germany, comprising six separate sites which are associated with the Bauhaus art school. It was designated in 1996 with four initial sites, and in 2017 two further si ...
World Heritage Site.
Bauhaus University Weimar. Freundekskreis. Haus am Horn.
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The foundation was created on 1 January 2003 through the merger of the ''Stiftung Weimarer Klassik'' and the ''Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar''. It was known from 2003 to 2006 as the ''Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen''.
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is a member of the Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen
The Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen (KNK) or Conference of National Cultural Institutions is a union of more than twenty cultural organizations in the former East Germany. It was established in 2002 in Halle.
It includes the following org ...
, a union of more than twenty cultural institutions in the five new states of Germany
The new states of Germany () are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 states upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.
The new st ...
which were formerly part of the German Democratic Republic
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.
Weimarer Fürstengruft and Historical Cemetery
The Weimarer Fürstengruft is the ducal burial chapel of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (german: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a historical German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was rais ...
and is located in the Historical Cemetery (''Historischer Friedhof Weimar''). It houses the tombs of Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...
and Schiller. It is part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and since 1998 it and the cemetery have been part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage Site
Classical Weimar (German: ''Klassisches Weimar'') is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of 11 sites located in and around the city of Weimar, Germany. The site was inscribed on 2 December 1998. The properties all bear testimony to the influen ...
.
References
External links
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
UNESCO.Classical Weimar
UNESCO. Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
Ducal Vault
– official site
2003 establishments in Germany
Furstengruft
Cemeteries in Weimar
Furstengruft
Culture in Weimar
Cultural organisations based in Germany
Education in Weimar
Friedrich Schiller
History of Weimar
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Organizations established in 2003
Protected areas of Thuringia
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