Haltestelle + Knock Down

Andreas Koch's installation Haltestelle featuring Stephanie Kloss's Knock Down (OM Ungers) currently at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin:

Ungers + LeWitt: a perfect match

O.M. Ungers's 1994 Amtsgericht Tempelhof-Kreuzberg with Sol LeWitt's sculpture, Berlin:

Meier's squares vs Ungers's squares

It's been an architecture day for me in Frankfurt.  I spent most of my day just visiting two signature buildings by two of my favourite architects.  I stayed for three hours in each of these two museums, not quite distracted by their exhibits but totally obsessed by the ubiquitous square in their design language.

Richard Meier's 1985 Museum für Angewandte Kunst:

O.M. Ungers's 1984 Deutsches Architekturmuseum:

Ungers's squares Hamburg

The square is the most prominent geometric element in all of O.M. Ungers's architectural designs.  I mean the unmistakable exact square, not the characterless random rectangle.

Ungers's 1995 Hamburger Kunsthalle Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg:

Weiß und andere Farben

I visited the contemporary art gallery of Hamburger Kunsthalle today.  As in any art museum, the display of its collection is a mix-big.  More to my personal taste is its collection on the first floor, titled Weiß und andere Farben (white and other colours).

Imi Knoebel:

Robert Ryman:

Max Hermann Mahlmann:

Andreas Brandt:

Josef Albers:

I was most surprised and very delighted to see Frank Nitsche:

It is worth mentioning that the architect for the gallery addition to Hamburger Kunsthalle was O.M. Ungers, who is well known for his use of cubic forms in his designs.  His architectural drawings are among my favourites.

Ungers' 1995 Hamburger Kunsthalle Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg: