NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
Expressionist exhibition hall from the nineteen-twenties, now showing photography, design and digital culture.
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This guide to the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf goes back to the summer of nineteen twenty-six, when the brand-new halls of the Ehrenhof hosted the GeSoLei, the Weimar Republic's great exhibition of health, welfare and exercise. It follows Marta Fraenkel, a young doctor from Cologne who held one of the fair's most senior posts, and what this building became once the crowds went home. Best heard in the Ehrenhof courtyard, facing the building's long front.
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