Scandinavian and German artists of the 19th and 20th centuries are represented, including Anna Ancher, Michael Ancher, Max Beckmann, Johan Christian Dahl, Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Krohg, Max Liebermann, Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.

[1] The collection contains works by Dutch painters such as the Romantic artist, Andreas Schelfhout, and members of The Hague School, Jozef Israëls and Hendrik Willem Mesdag.

Johan Barthold Jongkind and Eugène Boudin, who are regarded as precursors of Impressionism and important to the development of European landscape painting in the 19th century, are also represented.

Finally, a main focus of the collection is North Frisian painting, represented by the works of de:Otto Heinrich Engel and Hans Peter Feddersen.

Carrying on its traditional function as a meeting place for artists working on Föhr and as a site where natives and guests congregate, this building now houses the museum restaurant Grethjens Gasthof.