Exhibition Documentation 2000—2009

Ai Weiwei. So Sorry

Exhibition 12.10.09 – 17.01.10

Ai Weiwei (*1957) is regarded as one of the most important contemporary artists in China. Besides several familiar works in different media, Ai Weiwei also shows two new works in "So Sorry" that were produced especially for the Haus der Kunst. More

Thomas Schütte

Exhibition 07.06 – 06.09.09

The Düsseldorf artist Thomas Schütte (*1954) has an impressive repertory of different themes and forms of expression at his disposal. This exhibition now provides an overview of his multi-facetted creativity with works dating from the 1980s to today. More

Maison Martin Margiela

Exhibition 20.03 – 01.06.09

The fashion label "Maison Martin Margiela" (MMM) was founded in Paris 20 years ago – occasion to stage an unusual exhibition. Sub-divided into different sections, the presentation allows for insights into stylistic devices and designs of MMM, who redefine fashion as once Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent did. More

Gerhard Richter

Exhibition 27.02 – 17.05.09

For the first time this exhibition shows a comprehensive selection of Gerhard Richter’s abstract paintings that he created since the mid-1970s and that dominate his opus today. These large format pictures usually form a series and testify to the artist’s continued examination of the conditions of painting: its principles, limits and possibilities. More

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Exhibition 20.02 – 17.05.09

The stories by the award-winning Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (*1970) are based on myths and memories. "Primitive" is a multi-part project shown in the central Middle Hall of the museum that deals with reincarnation and transformation. More

William Eggleston

Exhibition 20.02 – 17.05.09

The American artist William Eggleston (*1939, Memphis, USA) is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic photographer’s of the 20th century. This comprehensive retrospective follows his artistic development from the early black-and-white images and pioneering transition to colour photography, all the way to the present day. More

Amar Kanwar

Exhibition 08.10 – 09.11.08

In his 19-part film essay "The Torn First Pages"Amar Kanwar deals in a direct, elliptical and metaphorical way with the fight for a democratic society, with political exile, memory and alienation. More

Made in Munich

Exhibition 21.11.08 – 22.02.09

Since the beginning of the 1970s, Munich along with New York and London, was leading with regards to editions and multiples. The exhibition "Made in Munich" shows works from 1968 to today, which were initiated and produced by a.o. dedicated Munich galleries and "editeurs". More

Garin Nugroho

Exhibition 19.09.08 – 11.01.09

In his film "Opera Jawa" (2006) Indonesian director Garin Nugroho re-interprets the Indian national epic "Ramayana". Nugroho combines traditional forms of Gamelan music, rod-puppet theater, Javanese dance and song with contemporary choreography; the projection is staged as a theatrical installation in the central Middle Hall of the museum. More

Spuren des Geistigen

Exhibition 19.09.08 – 11.01.09

Beginning with mysticism in the works of, for example, Caspar David Friedrich, the artistic search for intellectual and spiritual content lead to outstanding artistic positions trying to express the cosmic and infinity in the 20th century. Artists thereby approached the spiritual in a variety of ways. More

Allora & Calzadilla

Exhibition 13.06 – 14.09.08

Based in Puerto Rico, Jennifer Allora (b. 1974, USA) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b. 1971, Cuba) work in the most diverse artistic mediums. Allora & Calzadilla now present a new work in the museum's former "Ehrenhalle" [Hall of Honour] addressing the history of this space, where Hitler used to hold his notorious speeches on culture. More

Die Kraftprobe

Exhibition 30.05 – 31.08.08

This year the Munich Art Academy of Fine Arts is celebrating its 200th anniversary – on this occasion the Haus der Kunst has brought together exemplary works by its professors and students in a large exhibition. The eventful and varied history of the Munich academy is presented through a carefully considered selection of ca. 100 works in "The Trial of Strength". More

Robert Rauschenberg

Exhibition 09.05 – 14.09.08

In the 1950s the American artist Robert Rauschenberg (*1925) began to consider the boundaries between painting and sculpture. By integrating found objects such as light bulbs, leftover wallpaper or car tyres into his works, the "Combine Paintings" and the free-standing "Combines" emerged bringing international acclaim to Rauschenberg. More

Parrworld

Exhibition 07.05 – 17.08.08

For more than 30 years, Parr has been documenting society and everyday culture, predominantly in his home country Great Britain, but beyond this, he has also documented global phenomena such as mass tourism, consumerist behaviour or so-called leisure time. He is considered to be a satirist of contemporary life; his photographs are unsparingly critical and his inimitable eye unmasks the banal as well as the grotesque. More

Luc Tuymans

Exhibition 02.03 – 12.05.08

The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans’s (*1958) paintings are unique in their intangibility, their mysteriousness and stillness. The exhibition brings together the artist’s paintings from the last 30 years, as well as a wall drawing, which he created especially for this exhibition. More

Rupprecht Geiger

Exhibition 25.01 – 08.05.08

On his 100th birthday Haus der Kunst is paying tribute to the artist with an installation in the museum's central Middle Hall, where, besides two large color sails, the famous "Rote Trombe" [Red Dust Devil] is on display: an enormous tent-like object under which visitors can "stock up on red" for a few minutes. More

Anish Kapoor

Exhibition 18.10.07 – 21.01.08

The Indian artist Anish Kapoor creates objects that seem to stem from a different world: sculptures made from powder pigment, monumental installations with the most diverse materials – often sprayed with intense and yet seemingly soft colours. More

Robin Rhode

Exhibition 16.09.07 – 06.01.08

"Walk Off" is Robin Rhode’s first comprehensive exhibition in Europe. Drawings, photographs, animations and sculptures are on display a.o. – complemented by an action room, where Rhode will produce a wall drawing and develop a performance together with the dancer Jean-Baptiste André and the composer Thomas Larcher. More

Gilbert & George

Exhibition 11.06 – 09.09.07

The "Major Exhibition" presents Gilbert & George's art of the last forty years – not only the pictures, but also all the mediums with which the artists have engaged, including documentations on their "Living Sculptures", books, large format charcoal-on-paper sculptures from the early 70s, postcard sculptures and films. More

Christoph Schlingensief

Exhibition 25.05 – 16.09.07

The film, theater director and artist Christoph Schlingensief presents his installation "18 Images a Second", a work created especially for the central Middle Hall of the museum. Two filmic work complexes are embedded in the Haus der Kunst installation, which is dominated by an over-sized scene of the Lord's Supper with Mohammed. More

Georg Petel

Exhibition 09.05 – 19.08.07

The Haus der Kunst shows a substantial selection of Georg Petel's works in ivory, wood and bronze. The exhibition concentrates primarily on major works and new discoveries, and, with 25 works, displays approximately half of the artist's preserved œuvre. More

Andreas Gursky

Exhibition 17.02 – 13.05.07

Andreas Gursky has used techniques of digital image production for more than ten years. His works are digital sums of several different shots that have been added together to form a digitally composed image. In this way subjective views of the world, fictions based on facts and constructions of authenticity in the guise of documentations are created. More

Yayoi Kusama

Exhibition 09.02 – 06.05.07

The art of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is pure obsession. Her trademarks: grid structures, spheres, mirrors and, above all, dots – Polka Dots. The exhibition is shown in the central Middle Hall of Haus der Kunst. More

Allan Kaprow

Exhibition 18.10.06 – 21.01.07

The American Allan Kaprow (1927–2006) embodied the term "Happenings". He combined painting, music and theater and questioned art as object and formulated the concern for uniting art and life. The exhibition will be staged in close collaboration with the artist and will present his most important happenings as "re-enactments". More

Amrita Sher-Gil

Exhibition 03.10.06 – 07.01.07

The exhibition, a world premier, will take place in fall 2006 simultaneous with the Frankfurt Book Fair, the theme of which is India, and will present the work and life of the Indian-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. This emblematic figure, comparable to Frida Kahlo, was a protagonist of artistic Modernism in India. More

Black Paintings

Exhibition 15.09.06 – 14.01.07

This exhibition presents monochromatic black paintings by Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella and Robert Rauschenberg. At the end of 1940s, a flood of black paintings poured over New York – a phenomenon that could be observed into the 60s. More

Die Kunst für Alle

Exhibition 14.06 – 03.09.06

In 1885 the Munich publishing house Bruckmann brought out the first issue of "Die Kunst für Alle", one of the most widely circulated and influential art journals of its time, which made consistent use of photographic reproductions. The exhibition "A View for the People – Art for All" confronts visitors with the phenomena of continuity and change in the decisive period from 1885 to 1944, during which the journal "Die Kunst für Alle" appeared. More

Frans Post

Exhibition 02.06 – 17.09.06

Frans Post was born in Haarlem (b. 1612) and at the age of 25 set out for Brazil in the train of Prince Johann Moritz of Nassau Siegen. In the coastal areas of today’s Recife, a city of one million inhabitants, he created drawings and paintings, which, thanks to their photo realistic qualities, are among the most valuable visual references of the epoch. More

Herzog & de Meuron

Exhibition 12.05 – 30.07.06

This unusual architectural presentation focuses on the creative process providing an overview of the team’s oeuvre and lending a transparency to the underlying approach to the individual projects. An exhibition of Schaulager Basel and Herzog & de Meuron, adapted for its presentation in Munich by Haus der Kunst and Herzog & de Meuron on the occasion of the World Cup 2006. More

Konstantin Grcic

Exhibition 16.03 – 30.07.06

Konstantin Grcic creates industrial designs together with companies such as Krups, Magis, Plank, Flos, Nymphenburg and Classicon. The exhibition in Haus der Kunst' Middle Hall offers Konstantin Grcic the opportunity to present his works as he sees them – very subjective and free. More

Click Doubleclick

Exhibition 08.02 – 23.04.06

„Click Doubleclick“ presents selected standpoints in contemporary photography in which the image results are a construction of authenticity. The focus of the exhibition is the understanding of reality in photography and faith in the authenticity that is still associated with the medium. More

Lee Friedlander

Exhibition 16.11.05 – 12.02.06

The Haus der Kunst presents, with nearly 500 photographs, the most extensive exhibition of the American photographer Lee Friedlander to date. Like Walker Evans, Lee Freedlander was probing what he called "the American social landscape" – shop fronts, ads, tvs, cars, the whole panoply of the city street. More

Künstlerbrüder

Exhibition 19.10.05 – 22.01.06

The main thesis of the exhibition is built on the belief that both familial relationships, which, according to statistics, make up about 50 percent of an individual’s hereditary disposition, and common social and cultural environments are decisive in the formation of artistic personalities. The centuries covered in the exhibition disclose the changing historic conditions in which siblings continually found solutions for challenging their natural rivalry in productive ways. More

Französische Meisterwerke

Exhibition 07.10.05 – 08.01.06

Over 170 representative paintings are on display in this ambitious German-French exhibition project. The paintings are on loan from various German collections and offer a comprehensive overview of French painting ranging from followers of Caravaggio to disciples of the Neo-classicists of the early 1800s. More

Robert Adams

Exhibition 29.06 – 25.09.05

During the Federal Garden Show BUGA 2005, which takes place under the motto "Perspective Change" from April to September 2005 in Munich, the Haus der Kunst is presenting the world premiere of Robert Adams’s new series, "Turning Back". The 164-photograph "Turning Back" series looks back at the effects of progress. The work is laid out in the fashion of a journey around the American Northwest. More

Paul McCarthy

Exhibition 12.06 – 28.08.05

Born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah, McCarthy is considered to be one of the most internationally recognized and influential contemporary artists. The exhibition in the Haus der Kunst presents two new installations by the artist, occupying the entire 2,500 square meter space of the building’s ground floor. The works are the result of several years’ work and are presented to the public for the first time here. More

Sammlung Herzog

Exhibition 06.04 – 12.06.05

In the exhibition "The Body of Photography" the Haus der Kunst presents masterpieces from the Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection of Basel. It is, among other things, the photo historical, historical, sociological, ethnological, and ethnographical aspect that makes a photograph desirable to Ruth and Peter Herzog. More

Sammlung Generali Foundation

Exhibition 09.03 – 16.05.05

The Munich exhibition is not intended to be a "blockbuster" show of this renowned collection, but rather to make connections between the different works. The concept of this private collection is reflected through the exhibition’s dialogue-like presentation. Conceptual and Performance Art from the 1960/70’s are linked to works of a younger generation. More

Florian Süssmayr

Exhibition 17.02 – 01.05.05

The Munich artist Florian Süssmayr often focuses on the commonplace, the trivial, in his paintings. The terse, unusual exactness of the painted scenes is reminiscent of an eye-witness account or the investigative gaze of a photo-journalist. More

Schatzhäuser Deutschlands

Exhibition 19.11.04 – 13.02.05

The private residences of the German nobility today make up a largely unknown trove of incomparable art treasures, so that one can perhaps speak of a "private German national museum". And so the idea for a large-scale undertaking was born: For the first time ever, a selection of more than 350 outstanding artworks still in the possession of the once ruling families has been united in an exhibition for presentation to the general public. More

Das Bild Europas

Exhibition 11.10.04 – 09.01.05

In cooperation with the European Commission in Brussels, the Haus der Kunst will be presenting Koolhaas’ visualisation of the new Europe here in Munich. A theme will be featured in each of three halls: the history of Europe, the history of the European Union and the history of the "Marshall Plan". More

Utopia Station

Exhibition 07.10.04 – 16.01.05

This "Utopia Station", curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, follows from several others, some of them gatherings, some of them virtual, some of them exhibitions. "Utopia Station" was designed to occupy the former "Ehrenhalle" of Haus der Kunst. More

Peter Cornelius

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In collaboration with the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin a major work by the academic artist and draughtsman Peter Cornelius (1783–1867), who exerted a considerable influence on art in the nineteenth century, will be presented at the Haus der Kunst Munich for the first time in almost seventy years, namely, his cartoons for the mythological ceiling and wall paintings in the Glyptothek in Munich. More

Aernout Mik

Exhibition 02.07 – 12.09.04

The Haus der Kunst is the first German art institution to show a comprehensive monographic exhibition of works by the Dutch artist Aernout Mik. At the centre of the exhibition is his latest video installation, "Dispersion Room" (2004), which has been specially conceived for the Haus der Kunst. This work focuses on a theme which Mik has been exploring in various ways over the past eight years – the relationship between the individual and the group. More

Bernd und Hilla Becher

Exhibition 16.06 – 19.09.04

Bernd and Hilla Becher met in Düsseldorf at the end of the fifties and have been working together since then, for over forty years, on an archive for industrial architecture. Invariably using the neutral background of a grey and cloudless sky, they place their chosen images centre-picture and format-filling. Following previously determined criteria, the photos make up so-called "Typologies". In exhibitions the black and white photographs are arranged into tableaux, thus a screen-like presentation emerges, giving the viewer the opportunity to compare images. More

Nic Hess

Exhibition 26.03 – 06.06.04

Installation drawing is what Nic Hess calls the result of his artistic endeavors. Whereas trademarks were easily recognizable in Nic Hess’s earlier works, in his installation for Haus der Kunst they serve as a kind of foil on which he makes his own individual marks. Here he deals with these "models" more freely than in the past and uses their wide range of meaning to his fullest advantage. More

Simply Droog

Exhibition 18.03 – 23.05.04

The design network, "Droog Design", celebrates its tenth anniversary with this international exhibition. It consists of two parts, with the first part focusing on the history of "Droog", told through textile installations, photographs, videos, drawings, models and finished products. A shop, with products for sale and "testing", comprises an important element of the exhibition. Ten thematic rooms build the second part of the exhibition. More

Abigail O'Brien

Exhibition 21.01 – 12.04.04

The concept of this exhibition will accommodate the fascinating tension between religious and everyday rituals. Abigail O’Brien’s works will be contrasted with Dutch genre pictures, which for the first time concentrated on the depiction of everyday life. More

Patti Smith

Exhibition 19.12.03 – 29.02.04

In the exhibition "Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith" the artist, born in 1946 in Chicago, presents her drawings, which she has been producing, along with her poems, since the early 1960’s. More

Partners

Exhibition 07.11.03 – 15.02.04

Ydessa Hendeles was born in Germany, the only child of Jewish parents who had survived the Holocaust. She grew up in Canada, and in 1980, began exhibiting contemporary art. For "Partners", Hendeles has combined works by Diane Arbus, Maurizio Cattelan, James Coleman, Hanne Darboven, Walker Evans, Luciano Fabro, Paul McCarthy, On Kawara, Giulio Paolini, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner, together with series of photojournalistic images, anonymous vernacular photographs and antique vernacular objects. More

Utopia Station

26.09 – 30.11.03

Utopia Station

Grotesque!

Exhibition 27.06 – 14.09.03

The exhibition "Grotesque! 130 Years of Witty Art" is the first to examine the significance of the grotesque in the fine arts. The grotesque, which has fascinated artists since ancient times, forms an alternative world to the world of truth and beauty. More

Theatrum Mundi

Exhibition 24.05 – 21.09.03

The exhibition "Theatrum Mundi – All the World’s a Stage", celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Bavarian State Opera, is devoted to the varied interconnections between art, life and the stage in the Baroque and Rococo periods.More

The Joy of Collecting in Baroque Times

Exhibition 07.02 – 11.05.03

The Schoenborn-Buchheim Collection, Vienna, and the Collection of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, SibiuMore

Carl Spitzweg

Exhibition 24.01 – 18.05.03

Carl Spitzweg was always a popular painter. Many of us are familiar with his humorously drawn character studies, his bizarre eccentrics, bookworms, quirky scientists, aging bachelors, cheerful monks, and self-sufficient attic dwellers, who seem to enjoy their quiet "happiness in the corner". More

Wolfgang Laib

Exhibition 01.11.02 – 19.01.03

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Chiaroscuro

25.10.02 – 19.01.03

Chiaroscuro Italienische Farbholzschnitte der Renaissance und des BarockMore

Stephan von Huene

18.10.02 – 06.01.03

Stephan von Huene

Hinter den Brüchen. Eine Spurensuche

11.10.02 – 06.01.03

Hinter den Brüchen. Eine Spurensuche Fotografien von Sonja EbnerMore

Endcommercial - Reading the City

13.09 – 08.12.02

Endcommercial - Reading the City Von SBA.- Scheppe Böhm Assiciates, München/New YorkMore

Johan Christian Dahl

Exhibition 12.07 – 13.10.03

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Avantgarden in Mitteleuropa 1910-1930

05.07 – 06.10.02

Avantgarden in Mitteleuropa 1910-1930

Jana Sterbak

Exhibition 21.06 – 22.09.02

Jana Sterbak's objects prevail in the intersection of installation, performance, video and film. Haus der Kunst - in cooperation with the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden - is now staging a retrospective of Jana Sterbak's works created between 1974 and 2001.More

Stories

Exhibition 28.03 – 23.06.02

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Prudery and Passion

Exhibition 01.03 – 02.06.02

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"The Contest between Painting and Sculpture"

Exhibition 28.03 – 23.06.02

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Christoph Büchel. Shelter.

26.01 – 10.03.02

Christoph Büchel. Shelter.

War and peace

Exhibition 09.11.01 – 10.02.02

The czarist Pavlovsk Palace can be regarded as a German princess’s creation. Its international reputation is inextricably linked to the name of the Russian grand duchess, czarina and widow Maria Feodorovna, née Princess Sophie Dorothée of Württemberg.More

Dora Maar

Exhibition 13.10.01 – 06.01.02

The exhibition "Dora Maar & Picasso" provides a retrospective of Dora Maar's artistic oeuvre. Known as Pablo Picasso's companion, model and muse and, as such, the subject of many of his most famous paintings, it is often ignored that Dora Maar was an exceptional artist in her own right.More

The Rau Collection

Exhibition 05.10.01 – 13.01.02

Five Centuries of Painting – Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to BonnardMore

Meisterwerke von Fra Angelico bis Bonnard. Die Sammlung des Dr. Rau.

05.10.01 – 13.01.02

Meisterwerke von Fra Angelico bis Bonnard. Die Sammlung des Dr. Rau.

Mattis-Teutsch

Exhibition 06.07 – 07.10.01

The exhibition "Mattis-Teutsch and Der Blaue Reiter" [Mattis-Teutsch and the Blue Rider] is the first retrospective of the Siebenbürger Saxon artist Hans Mattis-Teutsch. The Hungarian National Gallery and the Mission Art Gallery in Budapest and Haus der Kunst in Munich have selected more than 150 paintings, 40 sculptures, 30 graphics, 70 linocuts and woodcuts.More

Sean Scully

Exhibition 14.06 – 16.09.01

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Piotr Nathan. Der, der die Sterne zählt.

27.04 – 08.07.01

Piotr Nathan. Der, der die Sterne zählt. Skulptur, Fotografie, WandzeichnungMore

Neo Rauch

Exhibition 16.03 – 27.05.01

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Kurt Schwitters

Exhibition 09.03 – 27.05.01

In the Beginning was MERZ - From Kurt Schwitters until TodayMore

Merz. Aller Anfang ist Merz - von Kurt Schwitters bis heute.

09.03 – 27.05.01

Merz. Aller Anfang ist Merz - von Kurt Schwitters bis heute.

Michel François. La plante en nous / die pflanze in uns

Exhibition 15.12.00 – 04.03.01

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Robert Ryman

Exhibition 08.12.00 – 18.02.01

Hand-Work

Exhibition 02.12.00 – 18.03.01

Senta Connert, Jochen Flinzer, Leni Hoffmann, Charles Long, Peter RöselMore

Haim Steinbach. North East South West.

08.09 – 19.11.00

Haim Steinbach. North East South West.

Dinge

02.09 – 19.11.00

Dinge in der Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts.More

Die wahren Geschichten der Sophie Calle.

26.08 – 12.11.00

Die wahren Geschichten der Sophie Calle.

Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Exhibition 31.05 – 06.08.00

As a Romantic painter, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was one of the most important representatives of the "Nazarenes", a group of young artists around Friedrich Overbeck who sought the renewal of German art from the spirit of religion. More

Antoni Tàpies

Exhibition 26.05 – 13.08.00

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Geheimster Wohnsitz.

19.05 – 30.07.00

Geheimster Wohnsitz. Goethes italienisches Museum. Meisterzeichnungen der italienischen Renaissance.More

Goethe's Italian Museum

Exhibition 13.05 – 30.07.00

“Most Secret Abode” is the title of a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written around 1810. The verses are about an imaginary building in Italy used as a place of spiritual education. The exhibition’s title refers to Goethe’s idea of establishing such a place of education in the province of Weimar.More

Herlinde Koelbl.

16.03 – 14.05.00

Herlinde Koelbl. Spuren der Macht - Die Verwandlung des Menschen durch das Amt.More

Beauty now

Exhibition 10.02 – 01.05.00

Beauty was long not a category in modern art - fashion, advertising and mass media had claimed it for their own. In recent years, however, a return of beauty in contemporary art has been evident.More

Maximilian Speck von Sternburg Collection

Exhibition 28.01 – 01.05.00

The collection of the Leipzig merchant and art patron Maximilian Speck von Sternburg is one of the most significant civil art collections of the 19th century. Compiled with exceptional expertise, it now includes 202 paintings, 127 drawings, and 645 graphics, in addition to archival materials and an extensive art library. More

Fotografien 1915 - 1968

Exhibition 22.01 – 12.03.00

Germaine Krull distinguished herself as a great photographer in the context of a cosmopolitan biography. Born in East Prussia and raised in Italy, France and Switzerland, she began her studies in photography in 1915 in Munich.More