Ludwig Gallery Castle Oberhausen

The Ludwig Gallery Oberhausen Castle is an art museum in Oberhausen. The gallery is located in the Kaisergarten of Oberhausen Castle.

The neoclassical castle complex was built between 1804 and 1818 by the Münster master builder August Reinking for Count Max Friedrich von Westerholt-Gysenberg. Heavily damaged during World War II, the building was restored and initially founded as a municipal gallery in 1947. In the following decades, the municipal collection housed here grew significantly, bringing together around 2000 works of painting, sculpture, and graphics by 1983. From the early 1980s, the collecting couple Peter and Irene Ludwig became committed to the gallery and brought their collection of art from the GDR, which the Ludwigs had been collecting since 1975, here. With 700 works, the collection was the largest outside the GDR. The gallery was renamed Ludwig Institute for Art of the GDR.

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