Description: visits on art, design, architecture and literature
(wall installation displays the range of modernist objects in Die Neue Sammlung entry, hanging piece by Luigi Colani, 1970s)
….said Paola Antonelli, (at an interview at the american AD, May 2006), then curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and now senior curator now at the Department & Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)…. and she continues ..”It is even more distinctive because it comes from a culture that is imbued with respect for design.”
Personally, as I lived last years between New York and Munich and still nesting much of my winter months in Munich, I enjoy & adore the Die Neue Sammlung museum ( in past I have written of some wonderful exhibitions ) and meet personally the fabulous director Dr Angelika Nollert. The institution was established as a state museum in 1925, the year the Bauhaus was relocated from Weimar to Dessau. The funds were very small and a promise for new home independent museum never materialised. Since 2002, it has sha