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Museum Angewandte Kunst
The Museum Angewandte Kunst (MAK) is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank). The alternating exhibitions recount tales of cultural values and changing living conditions. Beyond that, they continually refer to the question of what applied art is today and can be and demonstrate the field of tension between function and aesthetic value.
The Museum Angewandte Kunst has hosted exhibitions featuring contemporary design and applied arts. Notable shows include Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister, as well as exhibitions by designers and artists such as Hella Jongerius, Neri Oxman, and Patricia Urquiola.
The collections consist of more than 30,000 objects of European handicrafts dating from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, design, book art and graphics, and Islamic and East Asian art.
Against the background of its collections of outstanding works of applied art, the Museum Angewandte Kunst strives to shed light on the obscure and create relationships between the events and stories revolving around things of the concluded past, the emerging present, and the imminent future. The changing exhibitions tell of cultural values and evolving life circumstances given shape and expression with new forms. With its new presentation formats, the Museum Angewandte Kunst distances itself from the traditional criteria for museological collection and organization dating from the nineteenth century. The approach to the museum's exhibits solely from the perspective of their history has made way for the negotiation of timely and untimely reflections. This leads in turn to the emergence of issues encountered in thematic exhibitions with ever new object constellations. The presentation Elementary Parts: From the Collections opened in 2014 is a core component of this endeavor. For this "heart chamber of the museum", objects are selected from the many areas of the collection, regions of the world, and eras of the past, and placed side by side in all their dissimilarity. In this way the Museum Angewandte Kunst shows its potential and exposes both the history of its holdings and the point of departure for curatorial praxis.
The architecture housing the Museum Angewandte Kunst was designed by Richard Meier. By integrating the Neoclassicist Metzler family villa built in the nineteenth century, he created an ensemble consisting of the surrounding park, the villa, and the new building. Its re-opening was in April 2013. The purpose of the restoration was to retain the original Meier architecture.
The Museum Angewandte Kunst building evokes Le Corbusier's residential houses. For stylistic orientation, the architect Richard Meier looks to Classical Modern architecture with its straightforward forms and clearly articulated spatial bodies. In the late 1960s, Richard Meier belonged to the "New York Five" architects' group, who further developed the functional style of 1920s and 1930s European modernism in the tradition of the early Le Corbusier. Their common attribute is the color white. In his design for the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Meier integrated the neoclassicist Metzler family villa (in existence since the nineteenth century) and thus created an ensemble consisting of the surrounding park, the villa, and the new building.
The museum was dedicated on 25 April 1985 after a three-year construction period. The new building is an L-shaped complex composed of three cubes literally surrounding the Villa Metzler and joining it to form a square. The villa provided the basis for the dimensions of the three cubes. At the center of the four cubes is an inner courtyard from which the museum entrance is accessed. In the building's interior, a pedestrian ramp connects the light-flooded exhibition levels. The large windows generously link the interior with the museum's surroundings.
Since the spring of 2013, following a structural alteration phase in which older partitions and structural additions of the 1990s were removed, visitors have once again had the opportunity to experience the original Richard Meier architecture: light-flooded spaces, interlocking generously and granting a view of the park and river.
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Museum Angewandte Kunst
The Museum Angewandte Kunst (MAK) is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank). The alternating exhibitions recount tales of cultural values and changing living conditions. Beyond that, they continually refer to the question of what applied art is today and can be and demonstrate the field of tension between function and aesthetic value.
The Museum Angewandte Kunst has hosted exhibitions featuring contemporary design and applied arts. Notable shows include Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister, as well as exhibitions by designers and artists such as Hella Jongerius, Neri Oxman, and Patricia Urquiola.
The collections consist of more than 30,000 objects of European handicrafts dating from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, design, book art and graphics, and Islamic and East Asian art.
Against the background of its collections of outstanding works of applied art, the Museum Angewandte Kunst strives to shed light on the obscure and create relationships between the events and stories revolving around things of the concluded past, the emerging present, and the imminent future. The changing exhibitions tell of cultural values and evolving life circumstances given shape and expression with new forms. With its new presentation formats, the Museum Angewandte Kunst distances itself from the traditional criteria for museological collection and organization dating from the nineteenth century. The approach to the museum's exhibits solely from the perspective of their history has made way for the negotiation of timely and untimely reflections. This leads in turn to the emergence of issues encountered in thematic exhibitions with ever new object constellations. The presentation Elementary Parts: From the Collections opened in 2014 is a core component of this endeavor. For this "heart chamber of the museum", objects are selected from the many areas of the collection, regions of the world, and eras of the past, and placed side by side in all their dissimilarity. In this way the Museum Angewandte Kunst shows its potential and exposes both the history of its holdings and the point of departure for curatorial praxis.
The architecture housing the Museum Angewandte Kunst was designed by Richard Meier. By integrating the Neoclassicist Metzler family villa built in the nineteenth century, he created an ensemble consisting of the surrounding park, the villa, and the new building. Its re-opening was in April 2013. The purpose of the restoration was to retain the original Meier architecture.
The Museum Angewandte Kunst building evokes Le Corbusier's residential houses. For stylistic orientation, the architect Richard Meier looks to Classical Modern architecture with its straightforward forms and clearly articulated spatial bodies. In the late 1960s, Richard Meier belonged to the "New York Five" architects' group, who further developed the functional style of 1920s and 1930s European modernism in the tradition of the early Le Corbusier. Their common attribute is the color white. In his design for the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Meier integrated the neoclassicist Metzler family villa (in existence since the nineteenth century) and thus created an ensemble consisting of the surrounding park, the villa, and the new building.
The museum was dedicated on 25 April 1985 after a three-year construction period. The new building is an L-shaped complex composed of three cubes literally surrounding the Villa Metzler and joining it to form a square. The villa provided the basis for the dimensions of the three cubes. At the center of the four cubes is an inner courtyard from which the museum entrance is accessed. In the building's interior, a pedestrian ramp connects the light-flooded exhibition levels. The large windows generously link the interior with the museum's surroundings.
Since the spring of 2013, following a structural alteration phase in which older partitions and structural additions of the 1990s were removed, visitors have once again had the opportunity to experience the original Richard Meier architecture: light-flooded spaces, interlocking generously and granting a view of the park and river.
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