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Grenzwachturm Schlesischer Busch
East German guards, machine guns at the ready, used to keep an eye on the inner-city border and the infamous ‘death strip’ from the top of this grey concrete watch tower. The space is now used for contemporary art exhibits dealing with the topic of ‘borders’.
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Sammlung Weishaupt
Across the street from the Ulmer Museum, is this brand new building housing the Sammlung Weishaupt, spotlighting modern and pop art. This impressive structure is the latest in a series of bold and acclaimed modern buildings that have injected new dynamism into Ulm's Altstadt.
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Galerie Eigen+Art
The work of New Leipzig School artists, including Neo Rauch, is displayed in about 10 galleries, including Galerie Eigen+Art, internationally famous for championing young artists. It's in the southwestern district of Plagwitz; take tram 14 to S-Bahnhof Plagwitz.
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Brücke Museum
In 1905 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner founded Germany’s first modern-artist group, called Die Brücke (The Bridge). Rejecting traditional techniques taught in the academies, they experimented with bright, emotional colours and warped perspectives that paved the way for German expressionism and modern art in general. Schmitt-Rottluff’s personal collection forms the core of this superb presentation of expressionist art.
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Daimler Contemporary
Escape the city bustle at this quiet, loft-style gallery where the Daimler corporation shares selections from its considerable collection of international abstract, conceptual and minimalist art with the public. It’s on the top floor of the historic Weinhaus Huth, the only surviving building from pre-WWII Potsdamer Platz. Ring the bell to be buzzed in. There’s a different exhibit every three months.
Daimler also sponsored several sculptures dotted around DaimlerCity. These include Keith Haring’s The Boxers on Eichhornstrasse, Jeff Koons’ Balloon Flower on Marlene-Dietrich-Platz, Mark Di Suvero’s Galileo within the pond, Auke de Vries’ Gelandet (Landed) on…
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Deichtorhallen
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Contemporary Fine Arts
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KIT – Kunst im Tunnel
Young artists – many from the local art academy – get the nod in this underground exhibition space housed in a spectacularly adapted tunnel below the Rhine promenade. The entrance is via a glass pavilion.
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Kupferstichkabinett
Botticelli’s original illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy are among the prized possessions of art on paper held by the Museum of Prints and Drawings. This is one of the world’s largest and finest collections of its kind, a bonanza of hand-illustrated books, illuminated manuscripts, drawings and prints produced mostly in Europe from the 14th century onward – Dürer to Rembrandt to Schinkel, Picasso to Giacometti to Warhol.
The works don’t do well under light, which is why only a tiny fraction of the collection is shown on a rotating basis.
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Halle Am Wasser
The Berlin art scene has a new hot spot in this row of contemporary art galleries ensconced in a canalside warehouse behind the Hamburger Bahnhof. Top-flight occupants include Arndt & Partner, Frisch and Loock.
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Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Occupying a shimmering glass cube, this gallery is a romp through modern and contemporary art, with works by Otto Dix and Dieter Roth. For a 360-degree view over Stuttgart, head up to the Cube cafe. Out front, the primary colours and geometric forms of Alexander Calder’s mobile catch the eye.
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Galerie Neue Meister
Selections from the Galerie Neue Meister, where works by leading Impressionists and other modern masters are in exile while the collection's usual home, the Albertinum, is undergoing renovation until at least 2009.
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Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Edgy contemporary art in all media is the specialty of this gallery, presented in changing exhibits in a minimalist container-like space and a late-19th-century villa.
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Bayerische Staatsgalerie
Inside the Neue Residenz you'll find the Bayerische Staatsgalerie. Its strengths are in medieval, Renaissance and baroque paintings, with works by Anthony Van Dyck, Hans Baldung Grien and Cranach the Elder.
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Berlinische Galerie
Berlin may be all hip and hot in today’s art circles but fact is the city has long inspired creatives from around the world. The Berlin Gallery, in a converted glass warehouse around the corner from the Jüdisches Museum, is a superb spot for taking stock of what the local scene has been up to for, oh, the past century or so. The stark, whitewashed hall, anchored by two intersecting floating stairways, presents edgy works from major artistic periods – Berlin Secessionism (Lesser Ury, Max Liebermann) to New Objectivity (Otto Dix, George Grosz) and contemporary art by such ‘Junge Wilde’ (Young Wild Ones) members as Salomé and Rainer Fetting. Temporary exhibits inject…
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NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
For Zeitgeist-capturing exhibits, swing by the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. It targets the lifestyle-savvy crowd with changing exhibits on fashion, media, design and architecture.
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Gewölbehallen
The Gewölbehallen has artwork from the Dom, including sculptures from the rood screen (1239) - the work of the renowned Master of Naumburg - that portray the saved and the, well, not-so-saved.
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Kunsthalle Weishaupt
The glass-fronted Kunsthalle Weishaupt unveils the private collection of Siegfried Weishaupt. The accent is on modern and pop art, with bold paintings by Klein, Warhol and Haring.
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Augustinermuseum
Housed in a former monastery, the Augustinermuseum showcases paintings by Baldung, Matthias Grünewald and Cranach. Its rich collection of medieval stained glass ranks among Germany's finest.
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Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Fünf Höfe, a fashionable shopping mall also houses the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, a modern gallery space renowned for quality cross-genre exhibits.
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Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst
Situated on an island in the Weser River, across from the Schlachte promenade, the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art showcases German and international artists in changing, hot-off-the-press exhibitions.
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Museum für Neue Kunst
Across the Gewerbekanal, this gallery highlights 20th-century expressionist and abstract art, including emotive works by Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix.
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Ahnengallery
Tours at the Residenzmuseum take you through the downstairs Ahnengallery (Ancestors' Gallery), a riot in rococo with 121 portraits of the rulers of Bavaria in chronological order.
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Hamburger Bahnhof
The Hamburger Bahnhof displays career- spanning bodies of work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys and other 20th-century heavyweights.
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Historische Druckerstube
This gallery is part of the Cranachhöfe complex of courtyards (accessed separately from the main courtyards). It sells ancient-looking black-and-white sketches of Martin Luther, both typeset and printed by hand. Take a tour to hear the owner explain the sketches and early printing techniques.
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