Museum Brandhorst

The Museum Brandhorst in art complex in Maxvorstadt in Munich houses the collection of Udo and Anette Brandhorst for modern and contemporary art. The building is located north following the Türkentor and the Pinakothek der Moderne. It was inaugurated on 18 May 2009 with a state and opened on 21 May 2009. Establishments, the Museum of the Bavarian State Picture Collections. Director of the collection since November 1, 2013 Achim Hochdörfer. It is the successor of Armin second.

Building

The Brandhorst Museum is located in the art district on the site of the former Türkenkaserne. According to plans by architects Sauerbruch Hutton, a building was erected around 3200 m² exhibition and a total of 5300 m² of floor space. The exhibition area spread over three floors, very high; Mezzanines involve different usage areas. Striking is the colorful, painted in 23 different colors facade, which consists of three different color families. A total of 36,000 four -edged, vertically mounted ceramic rods are attached to each other with some distance in front of the concrete walls. Depending on the angle and distance result for the viewer different visual impressions.

With the exterior façade not only appealing look, but also make a significant contribution to energy efficiency. The ceramic rods cover a perforated, folded sheet, which has the function to absorb sound from traffic noise. The building itself consists of a two-storey rectangular long building and a significantly higher and widened to the north end building of concrete. The two parts are connected by a continuous band of windows. Behind the glazing of the input side is a spacious foyer with museum ticket office, bookstore and restaurant. With its entrance on the corner of Turk and Theresa Street, the Museum connects the art complex with the busy Maxvorstadt and vibrant university district. The building was funded by the Free State of Bavaria funded ( construction cost of almost 50 million euros ). The entire complex has been built according to the latest findings of energy efficiency. Thus, the energy use of the art complex up to 23 degrees Celsius warmed groundwater by means of heat exchangers and the thermal activation (room temperature regulation through floors and walls ) compared to conventional buildings are heat pumps, saving considerable amounts of energy ( and CO2).

Facade detail

Windows and walls

Museum Brandhorst corner Turks / Theresienstraße

Southwest side of the Brandhorst Museum

The rooms of the museum are characterized by their size and height and are spread over three levels. Upstairs are the largest rooms, with up to 450 m² in size and up to 9 m in height. All the walls are white, floor and staircase made ​​of solid light oak ( Danish oak). All rooms are different in size and layout and are available as interior design work of art on its own already impressive. Textile ceiling uniformly direct the light into the space. The daylight is given preference before artificial light in general. With translucent textile -covered ceiling light elements form, distribute the diffuse daylight as well as the hidden above the ceiling light artificial light.

The polygonal room in the upper floor was designed specifically for Cy Twombly 's famed Lepanto cycle in order to present these 12 large pictures in panorama- hanging can.

The smaller rooms are located on the ground floor. They are connected by staggered passages, so that surprising vistas result in ever new works of art. The classic enfilades be avoided. The daylight is brought here by means of reflectors on the outside of the building through a side upper light into the rooms.

A special look at the picture galleries has one of the lounge of the museum on the first floor on the north side.

The Collection

This collection was compiled by the late 1999 Henkel heiress Anette Brandhorst and her husband Udo Brandhorst since the 1970s. It was ( endowment 120 million euros ) into the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation 1993.

Overall, the Brandhorst collection comprises more than 700 works of art. The collection focuses on works by artists who have influenced the art since 1945 decisively. In the Museum Brandhorst, especially works by the following artists will be shown (selection):

• Cy Twombly: Bacchus; Summer Madness; I Lepanto; Untitled ( Roses)
• Andy Warhol: Self-Portrait; Eggs; Knives; Marilyn; Natalie Wood
• Joseph Beuys: Where is my jewelry? Where are my windows, my bridles?
• Damien Hirst: Waste; In this terrible moment we are victims clinging helplessly to on environment did refuses to acknowledge the soul; Looking Forward to a Complete Suppression of Pain
• Sigmar Polke: The Three Lies of Painting; Liberté, Egalite, Fraternite
• John Chamberlain: Lord Suckfist
• Bruce Nauman: 2 Heads on Base # 1; Mean Clown Welcome
• Eric Fischl: Living Room, Scene 3 (spinning); Japanese Bath

The works Twombly is an entire floor dedicated, including the work of Lepanto, 12 paintings, founded in 2001 for the Venice Biennale and symmetrically arranged in the Museum Brandhorst hanging in a wide semicircle. Overall, the collection includes more than 60 works by Twombly. 2011 showed the Brandhorst Museum in the exhibition Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951 - 2010 120 photographs from 60 years of creation of the artist.

From the Brandhorst Collection, the Foundation in 2011 in his own museum and later in the Print Room, Dresden State Art Collections, the exhibition Picasso, artists' books.

Mediation program

The educational program is conducted by the visitor service and the art education art galleries as well as by the Munich Community College.