15. September, 1968, the New national gallery in Berlin. The Museum displays modern art and is considered the last work of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Currently it is being renovated but can be visited.
50 years ago, on 15. September 1968, was opened the New national gallery in what was then West Berlin with a solemn Piet-Mondrian exhibition. The collection of works of Classical Modernism. 2015 but the house had to close for refurbishment. This weekend, interested visitors can visit the site. In 2020, the Museum will be re-opened.
New national gallery: an icon of the Modern
The former Director of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), built the national gallery. You brought together all the architectural principles on which he had been working life. With the building of the Museum, he created an open space without Columns, with flowing forms. It became an “icon of Modernism”, as it is said in a communication to the Berlin State museums.
It is the only building that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1938 fled to the United States in post-war Germany has built. On a Pedestal in a standing position and all-round glazed, opens the Museum to the visitor as a stage. For the curators, this “stage” proved to be a great challenge, since it is difficult to present art, when there are hardly any walls. In the basement, the building offers space for more exhibitions.
Stopover: “New gallery” in the Hamburger Bahnhof
During the closure, the “New gallery” shows at the Hamburger Bahnhof in various exhibitions of works from the extensive collection of the national gallery. In October, the Exhibition “a painter is there. Mentor. Mage. To see Otto Mueller and his network in Wroclaw”, dedicated to the expressionist and bridge-artist Otto Mueller.
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