Guided Tours: The Footprints of Thorn Prikker in the Rhineland



Sankt Georg

Christiane Heiser helps you to get more from your visits. She arranges tailor-made tours and curator talks on the exhibition Johan Thorn Prikker - Mit allen Regeln der Kunst. Vom Jugendstil zur Abstraktion im Museum Kunstpalast.
Moreover, Christiane Heiser offers public and private guided tours with the opportunity to discover the works of Johan Thorn Prikker and his contemporaries at selected locations in North Rhine-Westphalia. The guided tours take c. 1.5 hours and cost 150 Euros for max. 25 people.

Please send an inquiry to: kontakt@christiane-heiser.de

  • Cologne, city centre
    St. Georg / Waidmarkt: The Romanesque St. George Church, redesigned by Clemens Holzmeister and Johan Thorn Prikker in 1928
    Museum Kolumba by Peter Zumthor (2007) and the chapel of Madonna in den Trümmern by Gottfried Böhm (1950): Modern art and the Catholic Church (entrance fee not included)

  • Cologne-Bickendorf
    The Epiphany Church and the housing estate Bickendorf II: Example of Neues Bauen in Cologne

  • Düsseldorf city centre
    The Ehrenhof: The World´s Fair GeSoLei 1926 (Gesundheit, soziale Fürsorge und Leibesübungen), the architecture of Wilhelm Kreis and the interior decoration of Thorn Prikker

  • Neuss
    Quirinus-Gymnasium: former Katholische Gesellenhaus built by Peter Behrens and the chapel’s interior decoration by Thorn Prikker

  • Neuss
    The Epiphany Church and the windows by Thorn Prikker (1912-1928): Masterpieces of modern stained glass

  • Essen city centre
    New Museum Folkwang and the collection of Karl Ernst Osthaus (entrance fee not included)

  • Essen-Frillendorf
    Steel church of Otto Bartning (1930): Icon of modern church building and the stained glass windows by Johan Thorn Prikker

  • Hagen
    Art Nouveau villa Hohenhof by Henry van de Velde (entrance fee not included),
    The artists´ colony at Stirnband by Johannes Mathieu Lauweriks and the Thorn Prikker house
    The Osthaus Museum: Art Noueveau interior and the Folkwang collection (entrance fee not included)