Welcome to Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus
The Behnhaus-Drägerhaus Museum takes its name from the two adjoining 18th century merchant's houses in which it is housed. The Behnhaus was built for the wine merchant Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf, who made it one of the high points of classicist architecture in Lübeck. The Drägerhaus was also the home of a wine merchant, who created a suite of rococo reception rooms in the rear wing now unique in Lübeck. The museum displays ensembles of 18th and 19th century domestic furniture and a collection of paintings. The main focus in the works of art is on the 19th century, with works by Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen, Gustav Carus, Eduard Gärtner, Wilhelm Leibl, Karl Buchholz and others. This collection is crowned above all by the works of Johann Friedrich Overbeck and the ‘Nazarene' circle of his followers. Rounding off the museum's display is a gallery of classical modern works, among others paintings by Max Liebermann, Gotthardt Kuehl, Max Slevogt and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. This tour of a century of art is completed wonderfully by some of the brilliant paintings that Edvard
Munch executed here in Lübeck.
