Munich Art Pavilion

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Munich Art Pavilion
Relief on the wall

The Munich Art Pavilion is a building in the Old Botanical Garden in the Königsplatz district of Munich's Maxvorstadt . It belongs to the Munich art area .

The exhibition building was built by the architect Oswald Bieber in the course of the redesign of the Old Botanical Garden in 1936 on the site of the glass palace that burned down in 1931 . Josef Thorak used the building as a studio. After the end of World War II , the pavilion was in ruins and a popular meeting place for black market traders . From 1948 to 1950 a number of artists, under the direction of Hannes König, founder of the Association for the Protection of Visual Artists, self-help convert the former exhibition temple from the Nazi era into an exhibition space for Munich artists. Funding came from lotteries and fundraising. For the reconstruction, the protection association received a lease for the sole use of the building, which still exists today.

In the early 1960s, Hannes König devoted himself intensively to furnishing the Valentin Museum . The exhibition of the group “ SPUR ” in 1960/61 was for a long time one of the last events of national importance that took place in the pavilion. Under the chairman Konrad Hetz and a younger board, the purpose of the pavilion was redefined in the late 1980s and the pavilion was opened not only for a few exhibitions for its own members, but primarily as an exhibition space for foreign and foreign artists.

On the front the sentence “Art is not a luxury” can be read in neon letters today .

Web links

Commons : Kunstpavillon München  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Süddeutsche Zeitung: A cube writes history. Accessed May 31, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 30.3 "  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 56"  E