Landesmuseum

museum, Hanover, Germany

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The Landesmuseum in Hanover, Germany, is the Lower Saxony State Museum. It is located in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany. The museum features departments for natural history, prehistory, and ethnology, as well as an extensive picture gallery. It was rebuilt after being destroyed or severely damaged during World War II.12

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Dorner, director (1925–37) of the Landesmuseum in Hanover, was deeply interested in the work of contemporary artists such as Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, and Kazimir Malevich and sought to integrate their ideas into the Landesmuseum by inviting several of them to design displays for modern art that would fit the…
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Dorner, director (1925–37) of the Landesmuseum in Hanover, was deeply interested in the work of contemporary artists such as Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, and Kazimir Malevich and sought to integrate their ideas into the Landesmuseum by inviting several of them to design displays for modern art that would fit the…
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