Hamburger Bahnhof
Established | 1996 |
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Location | Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin, Germany |
Visitors | 250,000 (2007) |
Director | Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath[1] |
Curator | Britta Schmitz |
Website | Hamburger Bahnhof |
Hamburger Bahnhof is the former
Original use as a railway station
The station was built to
The building has not been used as a station since 1884, when northbound long-distance trains from Berlin began leaving from
Use as a railway museum
On 14 December 1906, the former station became home to the new Royal Museum of Building and Transport (
After the war, although located in what had become the British sector of Berlin, the museum remained under the supervision of the
Rebirth as an art museum
In the mid-1980s the Berlin entrepreneur Erich Marx offered his private collection of contemporary art to the city. The
Between 1990 and 1996, Kleihues refurbished the building, and in November 1996 the 108,000 sq ft (10,000 m2)[2] museum was opened with an exhibition of works by Sigmar Polke. The Museum für Gegenwart exhibits modern and contemporary art. Permanent loans from the Marx collection, including works by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, are on permanent display.[3] An emphasis of the Nationalgalerie collection is art on video and film, including a collection of 1970s video art—a gift of Mike Steiner—and the Joseph Beuys media archives. Since the museum opened in 1996, Dan Flavin’s Untitled (1996) has been illuminating the building’s windows and stone façade in neon green and yellow lights.[4]
Rieckhallen
In 2004, another part of the building complex, the former Güterbahnhof, which is connected to the Hamburger Bahnhof, was rebuilt as an exhibition hall, the Rieckhallen, for the
In 2020, the museum building's owner – Austrian property company CA Immo – announced plans to demolish the Rieckhallen after the rental contract expires in September 2021. The planned demolition prompted Flick to end the loan of his collection. Shortly after, the Federal Agency for Real Estate (BIMA) entered into negotiations to buy the Hamburger Bahnhof.[9] By November 2022, the federal government paid €66 million ($68 million) for the Hamburger Bahnhof and the state of Berlin bought the Rieckhallen for around €100 million ($103 million) via a combination of funds and a land swap.[10]
Directors
- 2001–2016: Eugen Blume[11]
- 2016–2021: Gabriele Knapstein[12][13]
- 2022–present: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath[14]
See also
- Berlin State Museums
- Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- List of museums and galleries in Berlin
- List of largest art museums
References
- ^ Anna Larkin (25 October 2022) In response to energy crisis, Berlin museum turns off its Dan Flavin neon for first time in 26 years The Art Newspaper.
- ^ Schmid, Rebecca (24 April 2018). "In Berlin, Looking at a Familiar Art Collection With New Eyes". New York Times.
- ^ Vogel, Carol (1 November 1996). "New Museum and an Art Fair". New York Times.
- ^ Anna Larkin (25 October 2022) In response to energy crisis, Berlin museum turns off its Dan Flavin neon for first time in 26 years The Art Newspaper.
- ^ "Die Sammlung in Berlin | FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN FLICK collection". Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- New York Times.
- ^ Hickley, Catherine (24 April 2020). "Berlin museums announce 'painful' end to loan of 'one of the world's most outstanding contemporary art collections'". The Art Newspaper.
- ^ Chazan, Guy (24 June 2020). "Art world says goodbye to Berlin". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 11 December 2022.
- ^ Hickley, Catherine (1 July 2020). "German government seeks to buy Hamburger Bahnhof museum from investor". The Art Newspaper.
- ^ Jo Lawson-Tancred (15 November 2022), The German Government Just Bought Back the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum From a Real Estate Company for €170 Million Artnet.
- ^ Hamburger Bahnhof: Gabriele Knapstein wird neue Leiterin Der Spiegel, 30 August 2016.
- ^ Hamburger Bahnhof: Gabriele Knapstein wird neue Leiterin Der Spiegel, 30 August 2016.
- ^ Hili Perlson (30 August 2016), Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Announces New Director Artnet.
- ^ Anna Larkin (25 October 2022) In response to energy crisis, Berlin museum turns off its Dan Flavin neon for first time in 26 years The Art Newspaper.