Dusseldorf

a German city. It is situated on the Rhine, twenty-two miles below, that is to say north of, Cologne. The modern city is a thriving port and a railway center. The population in 1900 was 213,711. Dusseldorf was for a century or two the residence of the Princes Palatine and was a center of art. The most valuable part of the art gallery at Munich was formerly in the academy of art at Dusseldorf, and was removed by the elector when he changed his place of residence. In the first part of the nineteenth century the most celebrated school of painting in Europe was here.