Grohmann Museum
Exterior of the Grohmann Museum in 2022 | |
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| Established | 2007 |
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| Location | 1000 N. Broadway Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States |
| Coordinates | 43°2′37.702″N 87°54′28.598″W / 43.04380611°N 87.90794389°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | 2,000 works |
| Director | James Kieselburg |
| Public transit access | MCTS 15, 18, 30, 57, and Green Line The Hop M-Line |
| Website | www |
The Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is a fine arts museum located Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose collection focuses on the historical evolution and visual representation of human labor.
The museum originated in 2001 after businessman Eckhart Grohmann, former president of the Milwaukee Aluminum Casting & Engineering Company, gifted his art collection to the school, along with funding to operate a structure to display it. The museum building opened in 2007 in a renovated 1924 auto dealership building located next to the city's former German-English Academy.
Among the institution's 2,000 art pieces are the largest group of works by German Romantic painter Carl Spitzweg in the United States, as well as paintings and sculpture by European and American artists including Marten van Valckenborch, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan van Goyen, Ludwig Knaus, Eyre Crowe, John George Brown, Max Liebermann, Julien Dupré, Norman Rockwell, and Frederic Remington. Both the ceiling painting and floor mural of the museum's entry hall were designed by contemporary German artist Hans Dieter Tylle.