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unusual facts about Wallraf-Richartz Museum



Hans Haacke

In 1974, Haacke submitted another proposal that was subsequently rejected for an exhibition at the Wallraf-Richartz museum in Cologne.

Institutional Critique

Haacke's exhibition at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne was cancelled due to the inclusion by Haacke of the work "Manet '74" that connected the funding of the museum to the cultural politics of the Cold War.

Klemens von Klemperer

The painting, a portrait of a bagpiper by Hendrick ter Brugghen, one of the Utrecht Carravagisti, had been forcibly sold to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Köln where it hung for the next 70 years.

Self-portrait as Zeuxis Laughing

Self-portrait as Zeuxis Laughing is a 1663 self portrait by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, now in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.


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