Munich House of Cultural Institutes

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House of Cultural Institutes,
Photography 2009

The House of Cultural Institutes at Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10 in the Munich art area houses several cultural institutions of the Free State of Bavaria :

history

Palais Pringsheim, 1890–1933,
formerly Arcisstr. 12, photograph around 1891

The Palais Pringsheim , which belonged to the mathematician Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig , was located on the site of the house of the cultural institutes until November 1933 . Pringsheim, from a Silesian Jewish mining and entrepreneurial family and father-in-law of Thomas Mann , was expropriated after the Nazi takeover . The house was then torn down. In its place, the architect Paul Ludwig Troost had the neoclassical building erected in the immediate vicinity of Königsplatz from 1934 to 1935 . It served the NSDAP as a representative administrative building. The counterpart with regard to the symmetry axis of Brienner Strasse was the Führerbau , which today houses the Munich University of Music and Theater .

From 1945 the former administration building of the NSDAP, together with the Führerbau, served as the Central Collecting Point of the US military government for looted art stolen by the Nazis from all over Europe . From July 21 to October 5, 1966, works of art, which are now located not far from the State Museum of Egyptian Art , were exhibited together again for the first time after the Second World War.

literature

  • Ulrike Grammbitter, Iris Lauterbach: The party center of the NSDAP in Munich (DKV edition). Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-02153-2
  • Alexander Krause: Arcisstraße 12: Palais Pringsheim - Führerbau - Amerika Haus - University of Music and Theater, allitera Verlag, 2005
  • Karl Stankiewitz : Off is and off is! Taverns, theaters, cafés, night clubs and other lost places of Munich conviviality . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96233-023-1 .

Web links

Commons : Administration building of the NSDAP  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Dorothea Baumer: "Thomas Mann spoke of gangster contracts" in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 24, 2011, p. 18
  2. Egyptian Collection of the Bavarian State (Ed.): The Egyptian Collection of the Bavarian State . Munich 1966.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 59 ″  E