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Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
Berlin (Germany)
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Phone : + 49 30 - 3978 3439
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| | | Berlin's Museum for contemporary art opened in the former railway station, Hamburger Bahnhof, in November 1996. This gave the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery) not only the first permanent home for its collection of contemporary art. | | Berlin's Museum for contemporary : Virtual tour |  | 11 sections and 57 items |
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Berlin's Museum for contemporary : Contemporary Art (10)
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Pop art
Andrew Warhola, better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author.
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|  | Lichtenstein - Rauschenberg - Judd (8)
Pop art
Fox Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".
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|  | Cy Twombly (1)
Cy Twombly is an American abstract expressionist painter. He is well known for his large scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic style graffiti paintings; on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibits his paintings worldwide.
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|  | Eberhard Havekost (10)
Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden from 1991-1996. He has shown work in many exhibitions such as at Anton Kern Gallery in New York, at Art Basel and Galerie Gebruder Lehmann in Dresden.
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|  | Zbigniew Rogalski (9)
Zbigniew Rogalski (born 1974 in Dąbrowa Białostocka, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 1999, lives and works in Warsaw) is among the most interesting artists of the generation which made its debut in 2000.
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|  | Anselm Kiefer (6)
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
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|  | Joseph Beuys (2)
Joseph Beuys was a German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and his energetic championing of the healing potential of art and the power of a universal human creativity. As well as performances, Beuys produced sculptures, environments, vitrines, 450 prints and posters, and thousands of drawings.
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|  | Stephan von Huene (1)
Within the field of the west coast art scene of the sixties Stephan von Huene emerged as an artist and was surrounded by pioneers such as John Cage, Ed Kienholz and Allan Kaprow with whom he worked together and with whom he was friends.
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|  | Thomas Struth (1)
Thomas Struth is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work covers detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. Along with Andreas Gursky, he is one of Germany's most noted modern-day photographers.
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Berlin's Museum for contemporary : Painting (1)
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Nocturne saturday
from 10:00 to 18:00 (20:00 on Friday),
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Public Transport :
U-Bahn
- U6 (Zinnowitzer Straße)
S-Bahn
- S3, S5, S7, S75, S9 (Hauptbahnhof)
Tram
- M6, M8, 12 (Zinnowitzer Straße)
Bus
- M41, M85, TXL (Hauptbahnhof)
- 120, 123, 147, 240, 245 (Invalidenpark) | | Berlin's Museum for contemporary : Description | |
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Since September 2004 the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is also located there for seven years.
The collection
The exhibition area of about 10,000 square metres is dedicated to art from the second half of the 20th century onwards. The collection contains works from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) as well as very many items belonging to the private Berlin collector, Erich Marx. At the core of the Marx collection are works by such internationally renowned artists as Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys. The collection also includes over 450 drawings by Beuys, "The secret block for a secret person in Ireland", and about sixty by Warhol. Also on show are representatives of Minimal Art and the Provera.
The "Berlin Circle" by the English artist Richard Long was directly inspired by the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. The whole of the ground floor in the western wing is devoted to works by Beuys. They include well-known installations such as "The End of the 20th Century" (1982/83), "Unschlitt/Tallow" (1977), and "Richtkräfte" (Directional forces) (1974-77) created from one hundred wooden blackboards.
A historical presentation of the works was consciously avoided in favour of an open presentation concept which embraces all the media used by the various artists. The building consists of a traditionally high, historical hall resembling a railway hall and modern extensions with clear geometrical lines and glass roofs. Together they provide both an ideal setting for contemporary art and stimulating surroundings for an interesting variety of events. | | Berlin's Museum for contemporary : History | |
La gare a été construite comme point de départ de la ligne de chemin de fer vers Hambourg. Le bâtiment n'est plus utilisé comme gare depuis 1884, lorsque fut construite la gare de Lehrte, qui se trouvait à seulement 400 m au sud-ouest de l'actuelle Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Très endommagé au cours de la seconde Guerre mondiale, le bâtiment a trouvé une nouvelle utilisation en 1996 avec la création du Museum für Gegenwart. Ce musée expose les collections d'Erich Marx et des fonds de la Neue Nationalgalerie. | | Berlin's Museum for contemporary : More pictures | |
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