Collection

The museum owns many works of art.
This is called a collection.
A work of art is one thing.
For example:
• a painting
• to painting you can also say picture
• or a figure made of stone
• or a drawing.

Visitors do not have to pay money.
If they want to look at the collection.

The Museum Folkwang has a large collection.
The collection includes world-famous paintings.
By world-famous painters.
For example:

• By Vincent van Gogh:
  Vincent van Gogh was a painter from the Netherlands.
  Vincent van Gogh lived about 170 years ago.
  Vincent van Gogh painted many pictures.
  At that time nobody wanted to buy the paintings.
  Vincent van Gogh did not paint nature.
  He changed nature in his paintings.
  That was new in art at that time.

In the collection there are many other paintings
by famous artists.

• For example, by 2 painters from France:
  Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.
  Both painters lived about 150 years ago.
• For example, by 2 painters from America:
  Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.
  Both painters lived about 70 years ago.
• For example, by a painter from Germany:
  Gerhard Richter.
  He lives in Cologne today.