The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (''Museum of Art and Design Hamburg'') is a museum of

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, applied and

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. It is located centrally, near the

Hauptbahnhof Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

History

The museum was founded in 1874, following the models of the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in London, the

Museum für angewandte Kunst A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

in Vienna, and the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. In 1877 it moved to its current premises, a building on the Steintorplatz built from 1873 to 1875.The History of the Museum
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works. After 1933, the Nazi campaign against "

degenerate art Degenerate art (german: Entartete Kunst was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, ...

" resulted in the loss of numerous contemporary works, as well as the forced departure of Sauerlandt. The building was partly destroyed by bombs in 1943; the rebuilding was finished in 1959. By Harold A. Hartog redesigning the central axis was donated that could be completed in 2006. File:Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, ehemaliger Museumshof (H I) von Norden.jpg File:Mittelachse Hartog-Flügel.JPG File:Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, ehemaliger Schulhof (H II) von Süden.jpg

Collections

These include: * Historic keyboard instruments:

harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...

spinet A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ. Harpsichords When the term ''spinet'' is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the ''bentside spinet'', described in this ...

virginal The virginals (or virginal) is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Description A virginal is a smaller and simpler rectangular or polygonal form of ha ...

clavichord The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was mostly used as a practice instrument and as an aid to compositi ...

fortepiano A fortepiano , sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 up to the early 19th century. Mo ...

s and

square piano The square piano is a type of piano that has horizontal strings arranged diagonally across the rectangular case above the hammers and with the keyboard set in the long side, with the sounding board above a cavity in the short side. It is variously ...

s. * Faience and porcelain: most of the major 17th- and 18th-century

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manufacturers are represented. File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (1).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (2).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (3).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (4).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (5).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (6).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (7).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (9).JPG File:MKG-Porzellan+Fay-Samlg (10).JPG * Islam: the centrepiece is a collection of 71 tile fragments from the mausoleum of Buyan Kuli Chan (1348–1368) in

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. The Islam section also includes pottery, carpets and books. * Early 16th-century carpet from

Lüne Abbey Lüne Abbey (german: link=yes, Kloster Lüne) is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. Today it is a Protestant Lutheran convent and is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover (Hanover Monastic Chamber). The current a ...

, displayed only once a year for a few days between

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and

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. * Furniture by

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

Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...

. * Japanese tea house and accompanying

ceremony A ceremony (, ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin '' caerimonia''. Church and civil (secular) ...

. * Art Nouveau: an ensemble of

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

furniture and exhibits, the "Paris Room", much of it acquired at the

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in 1900. Including two greater-than-lifesized white sculptures from 1907,

faience Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major ad ...

sculptures of girls by Richard Luksch, and the ''Swan Carpet'' (1897) by Otto Eckmann. * The Modern, 1914–1945: Expressionist works, including animal sculptures by Richard Haizmann, a

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wood sculpture of a woman by Ernst Heckel, works by

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Karl Schmidt until 1905; 1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke. Life and work Schmidt-Rottluff was born in R ...

and

Ewald Mataré Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré (25 February 1887 in Burtscheid, Aachen – 28 March 1965 in Büderich) was a German painter and sculptor, who dealt with, among other things, the figures of men and animals in a stylized form. Career Mataré bega ...

, and everyday objects in

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style. * Other collections include

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

figurines; items from the Far East; design;Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe: Ideen sitzen. 50 Jahre Stuhldesign
''Hamburg-Magazin'', 29 September 2010. book art; graphic art; photography; and antique pottery, weaponry and statues

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