. Memory In Motion – art in the public space, Munich, end of July 07

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. Memory In Motion – Munich, possible locations

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. Hofgarten . previous . next

fThe formerly Army museum, destroyed in WW II, now the Bayerische Staatskanzlei, one of the highest instituions of Bavaria

The Hofgarten in Munich is a garden in the center of the city between the Residenz and the Englischer Garten.

The garden was built in 1613-1617 by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria as an Italian style Renaissance garden. In the center of the garden is a pavilion for the goddess Diana.. A path leads from each of the eight arches.

The side towards the Residenz includes flowers in a design by Carl Effner from 1853, and there are arcades to the west and the north, including many wall paintings related to the history of Bavaria.

The garden was destroyed during World War II, and was rebuilt with a partial redesign as an English landscape garden. Nowadays the garden is open to the public, and is a very popular spot to hang out and listen to street musicians.

The infamous Entartete Kunst exhibition took place here, only minutes away from the Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) which was opened at the same time, March 1937, showing the "große deutsche Kunstausstellung" (The great german art exhibition; an annual event till 1944) and was subsequently used as a showcase for what the Third Reich regarded as Germany's finest art.

Prinz-Karl-Palais

Chancellor Helmut Kohl met with President Kurt Waldheim of Austria in Munich 1992 at the Prinz-Karl-Palais and then angrily criticized prominent Jews who had deplored the meeting as inappropriate. In a nationally televised news conference after the meeting, Mr. Kohl said he alone would decide with whom he was to meet in Germany
This meeting was widely discussed and criticized at it´s time.

On the right the US Embassy

also in this area

a memorial for the unknown soldier

A memorial plate for the victims of the Nazi regime.