. 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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. Haus der Kunst . previous . next

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The Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park.

The building was constructed from 1934 to 1937 following plans of architect Paul Ludwig Troost as the Third Reich's first monumental propaganda building. The museum, then called "Haus der deutschen Kunst" (House of German Art), was opened in 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.
At the same time, and only minutes by feet away, the infamous Entartete Kunstexhibition took place at the Gallerybuilding Hofgarten.

After the end of World War II, the museum building was first used by the American occupation forces as an officer's mess; in that time, the building came to be known as the "P1", a shortening of its street address. The building's original purpose can still be seen in such guises as the swastika-motif mosaics in the ceiling panels of its front portico.

Beginning in 1946, the museum rooms, now partitioned into several smaller exhibition areas, started to be used as temporary exhibition space for trade shows and visiting art exhibitions. Today, while housing no permanent art exhibition of its own, the museum is still used as a showcase building for temporary exhibitions and for visiting exhibits.

Since 1983, the museum building also houses the nightclub P1, Munich's famous high-society hang-out.

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