Kulturforum
Kulturforum
Kulturforum, Berlin
Mies van der Rohe
The Kulturforum (English: Cultural Forum) is a collection of cultural buildings in Berlin. It was built up in the 1950s and 1960s at the edge of
Mies van der Rohe. Today, the Kulturforum lies immediately to the west of the redeveloped commercial node of Potsdamer Platz
.
Cultural institutions
Among the cultural institutions housed in and around the Kulturforum are:
- Neue Nationalgalerie
- Gemäldegalerie
- Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (Museum of Decorative Arts)
- Musical Instrument Museum
- Kupferstichkabinett (Print room)
- Kunstbibliothek Berlin (Berlin Art Library)
- Berliner Philharmonie
- Chamber Music Hall
- Berlin State Library Haus Potsdamer Straße
- Ibero-American Institute
- Wissenschaftszentrum
- St. Matthäus-Kirche
History
After World War II, the public art collections were divided by the Berlin Wall, with particularly the Old Master paintings split between the
Berlin State Museums, pushed through his plans to move the collection to the Kulturforum, a modernist complex as answer to Museum Island.[1] The Neue Nationalgalerie became the centerpiece of the new complex, completed in 1998 when the long-planned $140 million Gemäldegalerie was opened nearby to house paintings of the 13th to 18th centuries.[2]
Sources
- ^ Charly Wilder (September 14, 2012), Berlin's Culture War - Debate Pit Modern Art against Old Masters Der Spiegel.
- New York Times.
External links
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