Brandenburg Gate Foundation

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Brandenburg Gate Foundation
Legal form: Foundation under civil law
Purpose: Promotion of art and culture
Chair: Kai Uwe Peter, Bianca Richardt and Peter-Klaus Schuster
Consist: since December 17, 1997
Founder: Bankgesellschaft Berlin
Seat: Berlin
Website: www.stiftungbrandenburgertor.de
Logo of the Brandenburg Gate Foundation
The foundation is based in the Max Liebermann House in Berlin

The Brandenburg Gate Foundation is the cultural foundation of the Berliner Sparkasse and is based in Max Liebermann's rebuilt house on Pariser Platz next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin .

activity

The Brandenburg Gate Foundation, originally founded in 1997 by Bankgesellschaft Berlin , has been based in the Max Liebermann House at the Brandenburg Gate since 2000. As a cultural foundation of the Berliner Sparkasse , it is dedicated to aesthetic education, organizes exhibitions in-house and initiates cultural debates as well as conferences, projects and educational programs. The foundation's program priorities are

  • Exhibitions and literature
  • Aesthetic education
  • Cultural debates in the city of Berlin and Germany
  • Art market and cultural policy

organization

The organs of the foundation are the board of trustees and the board of directors . This is supported by an advisory board in carrying out its operational work in the funding areas . The executive board, consisting of Kai Uwe Peter, Bianca Richardt, both from Berliner Sparkasse, and Peter-Klaus Schuster , is responsible for the management and external representation. He is responsible for the fulfillment of the statutory purposes through operational work and promotion. The board of trustees monitors the management by the board of directors and the asset management. Jürgen Mlynek , former President of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers , has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 2015. An advisory board advises the board of directors on the selection and design of projects.

The foundation's educational and discourse programs are implemented by three department heads.

Former spokeswoman for the board was Monika Grütters from 1997 to the end of 2013 , together with Pascal Decker as a simple board member. From 2014 until his resignation on May 31, 2018, Pascal Decker was Executive Director of the Foundation. Former Federal President Roman Herzog was Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1999 to 2015.

Max Liebermann House

In 1844 the house was built by Schinkel's student August Stüler . With its sober architecture, the three-story house appeared clear and sober. At the request of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , it was ensured that the house did not tower over the Brandenburg Gate. For reasons of symmetry , the Brandenburg Gate was given an architectural counterpart on the other side by the same architect.

In 1857 Max Liebermann's father bought the house at Pariser Platz No. 7 or, as Max Liebermann himself liked to put it: Just when you come to Berlin, left! . In 1892 he moved into the second floor of the house with his wife Martha and daughter Käthe. Its neighbors included large Prussian landowners, old and new nobility , industrialists and the French embassy . The German-Jewish painter and most important representative of German Impressionism not only lived in the house on Pariser Platz, but also worked there, on the roof he had his legendary studio, by the architect  Hans Grisebach , after a long trial against Kaiser Wilhelm II , have it built. In 1933, after the National Socialists came to power, Max Liebermann was banned from working, whereupon he resigned from the Prussian Academy of the Arts , of which he was president until then. In 1935 he died in his house at the Brandenburg Gate. Martha Liebermann was expelled from her house in 1936 after the Nazis imposed the so-called ban on Jews.

In the winter of 1942/1943 she suffered a stroke. After receiving the request to be deported to Theresienstadt on March 5, 1943 , she took an overdose of sleeping pills and died on March 10, 1943. A stumbling block by the artist Gunter Demnig in front of the door reminds her of her .

In 1943 the house was bombed . Today's Max-Liebermann-Haus was rebuilt after the fall of the wall and the regained unity of Germany as part of a “critical reconstruction” by Josef Paul Kleihues based on the historical model. Interior designer Margit Flaitz was responsible for the interior design.

Today the house belongs to the Harald Quandt family from Bad Homburg .

Projects

Current projects

  • Goal scorer at Pariser Platz
  • Art trade in Berlin
  • Cultural salon
  • Max - Artists in Residence at Primary Schools (The Max - Artists in Residence at Primary Schools program won 1st prize in the Kinder zum Olymp competition on July 10, 2018 , an educational initiative run by the State Cultural Foundation. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier received the prize awarded.)
  • Curating Children_Takeover. A project by the Brandenburg Gate Foundation and Gropius Bau
  • Neighboring Pariser Platz
  • Art and games
  • Arnhem Lecture
  • Aesthetic education
  • Berlin Foundation Week
  • World Poetry Day
  • in the Liebermann studio

Past projects

  • Literary tandem
  • Bridges in the neighborhood
  • Schools take responsibility
  • Instead of school - learn in life
  • Young people take responsibility
  • ART. TALKING BUSINESS.
  • Capital culture talk

Cooperations

Current cooperations

Past collaborations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicola Kuhn: Brandenburg Gate Foundation: Board member Pascal Decker leaves the Brandenburg Gate Foundation. In: tagesspiegel.de . May 31, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Stumbling blocks in Berlin | Places & biographies of the stumbling blocks in Berlin. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Quandts: their quiet rise to the most powerful economic dynasty in Germany . Campus, Frankfurt / Main; New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-36940-2 , pp. 391 .
  4. ^ "Olymp" future award for foundation and comprehensive school. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018 ; accessed on September 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Curating Children_Takeover. In: Foundation Brandenburg Gate. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German).
  6. ^ Community of residents of Pariser Platz. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
  7. ↑ What holds us together | berlinerstiftungswoche.eu. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Forum | Art. Talking Business. Retrieved July 17, 2017 (English).
  9. ^ Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professorship - Institute for Art and Visual History - HU Berlin. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .