German branch of the Guggenheim Museum on the boulevard Unter den Linden in Berlin
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After 15 years of its existence, the Berlin branch of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Deutsche Guggenheim (Deutsche Guggenheim), which got its name because of its location in Berlin's Deutsche Bank building on the famous boulevard Unter den Linden, will be closed. Museum to complete its work by the end of the current year, told Bloomberg and New-York Times.

Neither the bank nor the museum is not known specific reason for closing the branch, just pointing out that at the end of 2012 will expire on their cooperation agreement.

«Since 1997, when under the leadership of Thomas Krens (Thomas Krens) was created by Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, his work has played an important role in promoting contemporary art in Berlin - said Richard Armstrong (Richard Armstrong), director of the Guggenheim Foundation (Guggenheim Foundation). - Berlin today is very different from that of the city as it was when we started. We think it is time to stop and reconsider our partnership and its possible perspectives ».

During his tenure with the Berlin branch of the Guggenheim Museum has organized exhibitions of 57 who've been 1.8 million. Specially commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim 17 famous artists created new works that were first shown at the museum. Among these authors - John Baldessari (John Baldessari), Anish Kapoor (Anish Kapoor), Gerhard Richter (Gerhard Richter), James Rosenquist (James Rosenquist), Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons), William Kentridge (William Kentridge), Jeff Wall (Jeff Wall), Bill Viola (Bill Viola), Rachel Whiteread (Rachel Whiteread).

Closing the Berlin branch is unlikely to be a heavy loss to the famous museum network, which continues to expand, embracing new cities and countries. Over weeks Helsinki city authorities have the final approval of the construction branch of the Guggenheim Museum in the Finnish capital ; and is building a branch in Abu Dhabi .

According to Josef Ackermann (Josef Ackermann), head of Deutsche Bank, the bank plans to continue to use the space that formerly occupied the museum, to maintain what he called "intensive dialogue between business and politics." However, in the works Art, Deutsche Bank, which owns one of the largest corporate collections in the world, to suffer a lack of following the closure of the museum is clearly not. At a meeting of the bank, consisting of more than 56,000 works submitted to the work of many well-known authors, including the world famous German stars - Gerhard Richter (Gerhard Richter), Georg Baselitz (Georg Baselitz), Sigmar Polke (Sigmar Polke) and Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky).

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com , bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru