The urban gallery in the Lenbachhaus is an art museum of the Bavarian state capital Munich. It is accommodated in the monument-protected mansion "„of the painter prince "“Franz of Lenbach, which was built between 1887 and 1891 after plans of Gabriel of Seidl and 1927 to 1929 by Hans and 1969 to 1972 by Heinrich Volbehr and Rudolf were extended again. Some areas were received in the original state and to be able in the context of an exhibition attendance to be visited likewise.

Collection

Its call as internationally meaning museum the Lenbachhaus owes above all to the unique collection of works of the group the blue rider with many pictures of Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Franz Marc, August Macke, Marianne of Werefkin and Paul Klee. Besides harms, Rudolf mediator and further shows the Lenbachhaus in addition, works of the new Sachlichkeit with works of Christian. In the north wing is painting 19. To see century from the circle of the residents of Munich in such a way specified school. In a further part of the areas changing exhibitions take place. Since the 1970er years began the museum in his exhibitions substantial tendencies and artists of the international contemporary art happening to present and current art collect. The museum concentrates with its new advertisements on work of individual artists, in order to present these with groups of works, an important acquisition was 1979 the installation shows your wound of Joseph Beuys.

Installed areas and groups of works of among other things Franz field man, Dennis Adam, Christian Boltanski, James Coleman, Thomas's and, followed Olafur Eliasson, Valie export, Dan Flavin, Frg, Fruhtrunk, Rupprecht violonist, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Katharina large one, Michael heater, Andreas Hofer, Jenny Holzer, Stephan Huber, Asger Jorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Michaela Melian, Gerhard Merz, Maurizio Nannucci, novel Opalka, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard judge, Michael Sailstorfer, Richard Serra, Katharina they thing, Andy be-get, Lawrence Weiner, Viennese actionists and Martin

Structure

In the year 1994 the possibilities of the gallery in the Lenbachhaus with the opening of the structure were substantially extended. The roomy exhibition surface is in an up to then unused part of the Zwischengeschosses of the subway railway station king place close by the Lenbachhauses and large drawing of a bill of usually modern or newest art is used.

With the building of the low-lying U-Bahnhofs over the station an empty space of same dimension had remained remaining. The 110 meters and space divided curved for a long time, easily by a central support row into two ranges was removed of 1992 - 1994 by the architect's office Kiessler + partner (Munich) on behalf the state capital Munich to a Dependance of the Lenbachhauses. The before closed faces received shop windows to the escalators of the U-Bahnhofs. The visitors arrive from the Zwischengeschoss of the subway railway station into the entrance hall of the structure and from there out over a downward-prominent ramp into the showroom. For the transport of the works of art on the neighbouring property of an urban vocational school a freight elevator was inserted. The atmosphere excluding artificially lit up showroom certainly by the roughly left concrete surfaces of the supports and the cover in combination with a maple parquet soil and white wall bowls, behind which the duct system of the ventilation engineering hides itself. The round area for accessible over stairs, which was built apparently floating for instance in the center of the western range, forms an accent in the arrangement of the showroom.

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