Themed tour

Varieties of abstraction

Monet – Cézanne – Matisse. The Scharf Collection

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Thu 16 Jul 2026, 19:00

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» Kunstpalast

Duration

60 Min

Price

7 € plus Entrance fee

Paul Cézanne, River Landscape with Houses, circa 1904, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81 cm © The Scharf Collection, Photo: Ruland Photodesign
Paul Cézanne, River Landscape with Houses, circa 1904, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81 cm © The Scharf Collection, Photo: Ruland Photodesign

Please note: this tour will be held in German.
In this themed tour, we focus on the varieties of abstraction. Impressionist artists had already begun to simplify, dissolve, or rearrange the visible world. Forms became areas of color, contours lost their sharpness, and light and mood took center stage rather than precise detail. This created an tension between representationalism and dissolution, a transition in which modern abstraction is already laid out.

Public Tour in German

The GeSoLei and the Architecture of the Ehrenhof-complex

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8 May 2026 – 21 February 2027

Location

» Kunstpalast

Duration

90 Min

Price

7 € plus Entrance fee

Ausstellungspromenade auf der „GeSoLei“, 1926: Blick nach Süden; links der Pavillon der Düsseldorfer Nachrichten, dahinter das Haus des Brauerbundes, der Henkel-Pavillon und die Ausstellungsbauten im Ehrenhof mit Planetarium, Foto: Julius Söhn, 1926
Ausstellungspromenade auf der „GeSoLei“, 1926: Blick nach Süden; links der Pavillon der Düsseldorfer Nachrichten, dahinter das Haus des Brauerbundes, der Henkel-Pavillon und die Ausstellungsbauten im Ehrenhof mit Planetarium, Foto: Julius Söhn, 1926

Please note: this tour will be held in German.

A hundred years ago, the “ Große Ausstellung für Gesundheitspflege, soziale Fürsorge und Leibesübungen“ (GeSoLei) opened. The trade fair combined business, arts, and welfare and was also a mix of major sporting event and amusement parc. It was the biggest exhibition of the Weimar Republic, attracting 7.5 million visitors between May and October 1926. To this day, the Ehrenhof building complex, comprising of Tonhalle, Rheinterrasse, and Kunstpalast, defines the cityscape. Learn more about the GeSoLei at our Spot On exhibition. Experience a part of Düsseldorf’s architectural history and join the guided walk through the Ehrenhof.

Meeting Point Museum

Experience community!

Free admission free for young and adult refugees and migrants

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Date

Fri 8 May 2026, 15:45

Location

» Kunstpalast

Duration

120 Min

Price

included in the admission price

Omar Vicor & Lee Shulman, 2023, 47, Aus der Serie The Anonymous Project presents Being There, Pigmentdruck, 30 × 43 cm, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, Foto: Courtesy MAGN
Omar Vicor & Lee Shulman, 2023, 47, Aus der Serie The Anonymous Project presents Being There, Pigmentdruck, 30 × 43 cm, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, Foto: Courtesy MAGN

Please note: This program will be held in German!

Clubs, football supporters’ groups, carnival societies and, of course, relatives and family –we humans seek a sense of community. Photographs not only depict a sense of belonging, but can also affirm or challenge it. The exhibition at the Kunstpalast explores this multifaceted relationship and brings together both everyday and artistic works. Join us and be surprised by the diverse, unusual, humorous and fascinating works on display! After the tour, we will get creative ourselves and celebrate our community!

Meeting Point Museum is once a month.
Refugees and immigrants are very welcome. For them admission is free.

We are looking forward seeing you!

普通话公共导游/ Public Tour in Mandarin

Monet – Cézanne – Matisse. The Scharf Collection

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Date

Sat 11 Apr 2026, 14:45

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» Kunstpalast

Duration

60 Min

Price

6 € plus Entrance fee

Exhibition view, photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition view, photo: Anne Orthen

普通话公共导游
4月11日星期六下午2点半
费用:6欧元加门票

在这场导览中,您将了解德国最重要的私人收藏之一。许多展出的作品从未公开过。您将欣赏到约 180 件 19 世纪和 20 世纪法国艺术作品以及当代国际艺术作品。其中包括保罗·塞尚、克劳德·莫奈、皮埃尔·博纳尔、巴勃罗·毕加索、亨利·马蒂斯和卡塔琳娜·格罗斯的杰出画作。


Please note: This tour will be held in Japanese!

This guided tour offers insights into one of Germany’s most important private collections. Many of the works on display have never been shown to the public before. Enjoy a selection of around 180 works of French art from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as contemporary international art. These include outstanding paintings by Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Katharina Grosse.

Meeting Point Museum

Spring at the Kunstpalast

Free admission for young and adult refugees and migrants

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Date

Fri 10 Apr 2026, 15:45

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» Kunstpalast

Duration

120 Min

Price

included in the admission price

Lovis Corinth, Blumenstillleben mit Flieder und Anemonen, 1925, Öl auf Leinwand, 106,4 x 85,7 cm, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Foto: Kunstpalast – LVR-ZMB, Joshua Esters - ARTOTHEK
Lovis Corinth, Blumenstillleben mit Flieder und Anemonen, 1925, Öl auf Leinwand, 106,4 x 85,7 cm, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Foto: Kunstpalast – LVR-ZMB, Joshua Esters – ARTOTHEK

Please note: This program will be held in German.

Spring is here! Nature presents itself fresh and bright. Together we will discover the colourful world of the Kunstpalast. This time, we will look at artworks fitting for springtime. Afterwards, we will get creative and capture the vibrant colours.

Meeting Point Museum is once a month.
Refugees and immigrants are very welcome. For them admission is free.

We are looking forward seeing you!

Theme Tour Black Archive Germany

Identity, Resilience and Community

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Date

Thu 30 Apr 2026, 18:00

Location

» Kunstpalast

Duration

60 Min

Price

7 € plus Entrance fee

Exhibition view, photo: Anne Orthen
Exhibition view, photo: Anne Orthen

Please note: This tour will be given in German!

The Black Archive Germany project collects the diverse forms of expression found in Black and African cultures, both within and outside their homelands, and brings their everyday lives in Germany to light. During this themed tour, we’ll discuss cultural identity, resilience and community!
What is it like to feel part of a scattered group? How can the beauty, depth and complexity of life as a minority in a foreign land be shown beyond common stereotypes?

Following the themed tour, there will be a talk with the artist Cate Laherty.

Themed tour

French Impressionism meets Japanese colour woodblock printing

Monet – Cézanne – Matisse. The Scharf Collection

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Thu 7 May 2026, 19:00

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Duration

60 Min

Price

7 € plus Entrance fee

Utagawa Hiroshige, Abendregen an der Shin-O-hashi-Brücke und Atake, aus der Serie 100 Ansichten berühmter Orte Edos, 1857 © The Scharf Collection, Foto: David le Viseur
Utagawa Hiroshige, Abendregen an der Shin-O-hashi-Brücke und Atake, aus der Serie 100 Ansichten berühmter Orte Edos, 1857 © The Scharf Collection, Foto: David le Viseur

This tour focuses on the influence of Japanese art on French Impressionism. After the World’s Fairs in Vienna and Paris in the 1870s, a veritable Japan fever spread throughout Europe—in particular, the motifs and compositions of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) influenced French Impressionists such as Monet, Renoir, and Bonnard.

The tour will be led by Nana Tazuke-Steiniger, M.A. Her research focuses on the history of collecting and exhibiting Japanese art in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly in the context of foreign relations between Germany and Japan.

Palastplausch

Lovely conversations about art over coffee and cake

Late Romantic painting in Düsseldorf

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Date

Tue 14 Apr 2026, 14:30

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» Kunstpalast

Duration

90 Min

Price

14 € plus Entrance fee

photo: Anne Orthen
photo: Anne Orthen

Late Romantic painting in Düsseldorf
Late Romantic painting in Düsseldorf developed in the 19th century around the Düsseldorf Art Academy and is characterized by a special combination of nature depiction, mood, and narrative elements. The artists created historical and landscape paintings that also convey emotional impressions and atmospheric moods. These works often open a window to one’s own memories and experiences in nature.

In addition to the art-historical background, this special series focuses on mutual exchange and personal impressions. Sometimes all it takes is a picture to start a conversation or bring back memories. Our experienced art educators guide you through the collection exhibition and introduce individual works of art or artists in dialogue with the group.

After the tour, we cordially invite you to continue the conversation in a cozy atmosphere over coffee and cake.

The price includes a slice of cake and a coffee, cappuccino, tea or soft drink of your choice.

This format is aimed at people who would like to enrich their everyday lives through new encounters and who are interested in art. No prior knowledge is required.

Palastplausch

Lovely conversations about art over coffee and cake

The history of the fragrance

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Date

Tue 3 Mar 2026, 14:30

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» Kunstpalast

Duration

90 Min

Price

14 € plus Entrance fee

photo: Anne Orthen
photo: Anne Orthen

Please note: This tour will be held in German!

The history of the fragrance
In this special series, the focus lies not only on selected art-historical insights, but above all on shared exchange and personal perceptions. This time, we aim to evoke memories through the sense of smell.

On this short guided tour, we embark on a sensory journey through selected periods and artworks, guided by various scent stations. Natural essences derived from woods and resins point to long routes connecting Asia and Europe. They were used in religion, rituals, medicine, and personal care. Along the way, selected artworks also open up perspectives on trade and structures of power.

The tour invites you to look closely, consciously perceive, and share impressions with each other—and to experience art in a completely different, sensual way.

After the tour, we cordially invite you to continue the conversation in a cozy atmosphere over coffee and cake.

The price includes a slice of cake and a coffee, cappuccino, tea or soft drink of your choice.

This format is aimed at people who would like to enrich their everyday lives through new encounters and who are interested in art. No prior knowledge is required.

Palastplausch

Lovely conversations about art over coffee and cake

Düsseldorf as art center in the postwar period

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Date

Tue 17 Feb 2026, 14:30

Location

» Kunstpalast

Duration

90 Min

Price

14 € plus Entrance fee

photo: Anne Orthen
photo: Anne Orthen

Please note: This tour will be held in German!

Düsseldorf as art center in the postwar period
In this special series, the focus lies not only on art-historical contexts, but also on shared exchange and personal impressions. Sometimes all it takes is a single artwork to spark a conversation or awaken memories.

This time, our topic is Düsseldorf as a hotspot of the art scene from the 1950s to the 1970s. The event explores the gallery scene and its key figures. We will discuss the influence of the ZERO artists as well as the experimental, sometimes quirky performances and exhibition actions of the era, in which art, everyday life, and provocation became closely intertwined. Special attention is given to the legendary underground club Creamcheese, once a central meeting place for an open and innovative art and cultural scene.

After the tour, we warmly invite you to continue the conversations in a relaxed atmosphere over coffee and cake.

The price includes a slice of cake and a coffee, cappuccino, tea or soft drink of your choice.

This format is aimed at people who would like to enrich their everyday lives through new encounters and who are interested in art. No prior knowledge is required.