Museum Brandhorst
The Brandhorst Museum opens its story in 1971, when Anette Brandhorst and her husband Udo Fritz-Hermann began collecting modern art. When Anette died of cancer in 1999, Udo donated the collection to the state of Bavaria on the condition that Bavaria would build a home for it—and the museum’s construction costs of $67 million were funded by Bavaria. The museum itself opened in Munich on 21 May 2009. It presents about 200 exhibits drawn from the modern collection of the Henkel trust Brandhorst, and that collection had grown to more than 700 works by 2009. The building, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, sits beside the Pinakothek der Moderne in the Kunstareal: a long, two-storey rectangle wrapped in 36,000 vertical ceramic louvres, finished in 23 different coloured glazes. …
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