Kölnischer Kunstverein

Kölnischer Kunstverein is a German historical art society and museum, established in 1839 in Cologne. Originally it was based at Wallraf Museum (Trankgasse, 7) with a permanent selling exhibition at Gürzenich Hall. In 1891, Kunstverein moved to the new Wallraf-Richartz Museum. The organization relocated once again twenty years later, to the neo-Gothic Schaebensche Haus at Domkloster, 3. In 1920, Commerzbank decided to open its first branch in Cologne at Schaebensche House and granted Kunstverein a donation of 300,000 marks to construct a building. Two years later, the museum moved into the new spacious building in classicist style, erected at Friesenplatz 27/27a. After the city demolished the museum's building in 2002, Kölnischer Kunstverein settled at its current location, early-fifties' Die Brücke house on Hahnenstrasse.