Lenbachaus reopens after extensive reconstruction
Munich's legendary Lenbachaus has reopened its doors this summer, after four years of reconstruction work. The Tuscan-style villa built at the end of the 19th century for painter Franz von Lenbach and was transformed into a museum in 1929, when the city purchased the building from the artist's widow. The pride of the museum is an extensive collection of works by the German Expressionist Blaue Reiter group, which was active in Munich before the First World War. Here one can view paintings from this period by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Paul Klee, August Macke and other artists. Names like Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, Ellsworth Kelly, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and others are represented in the museum's contemporary art collection.
Sir Norman Foster was the author of the reconstruction project, which involved the restoration of the historical museum building and the construction of a brand new annex, whose façade of gilded copper and aluminium pipes contrasts sharply with the ochre yellow of the historical villa. The museum's impressive atrium forms its architectonic centrepiece, decorated with Olafur Eliasson's installation Whirlwind.
Luisenstraße 33
80333 Munich
www.lenbachhaus.de
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