Neue Nationalgalerie

The new National Gallery Berlin is the museum of art of the twentieth century (from classic modern to art of the sixties) and is situated at the Kulturforum. The museum building was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and ranks as one of the classics of the modern architecture.



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[hide] *1 the building  ==The building[ Edit] == The new National Gallery is the only construction work, which by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany after the Second World War could be realized. In 1962 he received the assignment to design a museum. He grabbed back on are not executed design from 1957 for a head office of the Cuban rumproducent in Santiago de Cuba Bacardi .The construction was in 1968, a year before his death, completed. The new National Gallery was the first museum, which is the new Kulturforum Berlin in Berlin-Tiergartennear the Potsdamer Platz, was opened.
 * 2 Dimensions, specifications and content
 * 3 Literature
 * 4 see also
 * 5 external link

With the new National Gallery by Mies van der Rohe realized him developed the idea of one big, general area. On a terrace of 105 x 110 meters, causing a slight slope down to the Landwehrkanal is bridged, the square, steel Pavilion built. The dominant roof of the exhibition hall, supported by steel columns, has a length of 64.8 metres, and the glass wall around is 7.2 meters to set in. The open space thus created is intended for temporary exhibitions. The rooms are located In the space for the permanent collection.Finally, there is next to the building, on the West side, still a walled sculpture park. ==Dimensions, specifications and content[ Edit] == The plan of the new National Gallery is divided into two different stories. The upper story serves as access, as well as exhibition gallery, a total of 2683 sq. feet of space. It is elevated from street level and can only be reached by three steps. Although it is only a small part of the total gallery space, the Exhibition Pavilion as primary architectural expression of the building. Eight cross-shaped columns, two on each length posted so as to avoid the corners, supports a square prestressed steel roofing sheet of 1.8 meters thick and black painted. An eighteen meter cantilever ensures sufficient space between the Gallery glass façade and eight supporting columns. Floor-to-ceiling you measure 8.4 meters, and the area is on a 3.6-meter square dimensional grid laid. Black anodized aluminum "egg crates" fit within the grid home lighting fixtures, with air ducts above suspended. The lower story serves mainly as housing for the Gallery permanent collection, but it also includes a library, offices, a shop and a cafe, and a total of approximately 10,000 square feet of space. It is three quarters under the ground in order to ensure the safe storage of the work of art, its only glass façade overlooking rolling sculpture garden of the museum and providing enough indirect light. ==Literature[ Edit] ==
 * Peter-Klaus Schuster (Hrsg.): Which National Gallery. Köln 2001, ISBN 3-8321-7004-9
 * Rolf d. Weisse: Mies van der Rohe. Vision und Realität – von der Concert Hall zur Neuen Nationalgalerie. Entwicklung einer idea. Potsdam 2001, ISBN 3-929748-12-6
 * Mies van der Rohes Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Hrsg. von Gabriela Wachter. Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9803212-2-3