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GERMANY / Berlin: The Black Years
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday August 21 2016

Hamburger Bahnof
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Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
Germany



Stories of a Collection: 1933–1945

November 2015 sees the opening of the "Neue Galerie": a new exhibition space at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, designed with the specific purpose of keeping the Nationalgalerie's modern art collection on public display while the Mies van der Rohe building undergoes renovations. The space will host a different modern art exhibition every six months until the re-opening of the Neue Nationalgalerie.

The first of these exhibitions, entitled "The Years of Darkness. Stories of a Collection. 1933–1945", features works from the Nationalgalerie which were either created between 1933 and 1945, acquired by the collection during this period, or seized by the National Socialist regime.
Visitors will have the opportunity to see major works by Pablo Picasso, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, Rudolf Belling and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The exhibition also includes objects recently acquired by the collection, as well as other works not seen by the public in over 75 years. Each of the objects has its own individual story to tell, and offers valuable insights into the art, politics and museum history of the Nazi period.

© Modem