The Klassik Stiftung Weimar (''Classical Foundation Weimar'') is one of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in

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. It owns more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are

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.Klassik Stiftung Weimar. About us.
Retrieved 25 November 2018 It focuses on the

Weimar Classicism Weimar Classicism (german: Weimarer Klassik) was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after ...

period, but also covers 19th and 20th century art and culture with properties associated with Franz Liszt,

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

and the

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 20 ...

. Eleven of its properties are listed as part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage Site and the

Haus am Horn The Haus am Horn is a domestic house in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. It was built for the Bauhaus ''Werkschau'' (English: ''Work show'') exhibition which ran from July to September 1923. It was the first building based on Bauhaus des ...

is part of the

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau is a World Heritage Site in Germany, comprising six separate sites which are associated with the Bauhaus art school. It was designated in 1996 with four initial sites, and in 2017 two further si ...

World Heritage Site.Bauhaus University Weimar. Freundekskreis. Haus am Horn.
Retrieved 25 November 2018 The foundation was created on 1 January 2003 through the merger of the ''Stiftung Weimarer Klassik'' and the ''Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar''. It was known from 2003 to 2006 as the ''Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen''. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar is a member of the

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, a union of more than twenty cultural institutions in the five

new states of Germany The new states of Germany () are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 states upon German reunification on 3 October 1990. The new st ...

which were formerly part of the

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Weimarer Fürstengruft and Historical Cemetery

Historischer Friedhof mit Fürstengruft & Kapelle

The Weimarer Fürstengruft is the ducal burial chapel of

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (german: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a historical German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was ra ...

and is located in the Historical Cemetery (''Historischer Friedhof Weimar''). It houses the tombs of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tr ...

and Schiller. It is part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and since 1998 it and the cemetery have been part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage Site.

References

External links

Klassik Stiftung Weimar

UNESCO.Classical Weimar

UNESCO. Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

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