Sprengel Museum

The Sprengel Museum in Hanover houses a standout amongst the most critical accumulations of present day craftsmanship in Germany. It is situated in a building planned by Peter and Ursula Trint and Dieter Quast, contiguous the Maschsee. The exhibition hall opened in 1979 and the building was reached out in 1992. Bernhard Sprengel gave his broad accumulation of present day workmanship to the city of Hanover in 1969, and in addition fiscally supporting the development of the exhibition hall. The city of Hanover and the territory of Lower Saxony consented to mutually work the gallery. Notwithstanding the works given by Sprengel, the historical center additionally houses twentieth century craftsmanships claimed by Lower Saxony and Hanover.

The Sprengel Museums' key works incorporate those of Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann from before 1945. In 1988, the historical center acquired the home of the specialists and wedded couple Robert Michel and Ella Bergmann-Michel. The exhibition hall distributes a printed stock of this bequest, of which two volumes have so far been distributed. Since 1993, the Sprengel Museum has contained the Kurt Schwitters Archive, of which the Merz Room is especially outstanding. In 2000, Niki de Saint Phalle turned into a privileged national of Hanover and along these lines gave 300 of her attempts to the historical center.