The Haus der Kunst in Munich, a Nazi building from 1937, has long been a place of artistic freedom and no longer of fascist propaganda. And yet: the halls remain oversized, the doors are difficult to close, and the rigid mix of marble neoclassicism and once ambitious spatial technology remains oppressive. One still has no idea why Adolf Hitler commissioned the massive construction from Paul Ludwig Troost and what he liked so much about the colossus that he made it the center of National Socialist art ideology.
Rebecca Horn in the Munich House of Art – Culture
