The time has come at the end of June: Then the work on the extensive renovation of the Kallmann Museum in Ismaning will begin. The institution, which is well-known far beyond the local borders, will then be closed for a presumably 13 month period. According to initial calculations, upgrading the more than 30-year-old building will cost a good 4.7 million euros, with Ismaning contributing 3.2 million euros. The remaining one and a half million euros are to be covered by...
Rocky grooves, breakneck bebop phrases, melancholic sounds from Eastern Europe or tender songs without words - the Austrian trio Mario Rom (trumpet), Lukas Kranzelbinder (bass) and Herbert Pirker (drums) knows almost no musical boundaries. This Friday, January 20, the ensemble is making a guest appearance at the Kallmann Museum in Ismaning. With their current, critically acclaimed project "Eternal Fiction", the three musicians have been touring the world. Above all, trumpeter Mario Rom is regarded as a top-class instrumentalist. The concert...
It is an everyday object that dates back to the dawn of time. Since prehistoric times, the human species has taken a liking to cleaning their snags with a toothpick. Older ones were made with bones or wooden twigs. Over the centuries, the toothpick then became gentrified. To distinguish themselves, the aristocrats used prickly sticks made of solid gold, silver or ivory at the table. Always used after meals to flush out the remains of food stuck between the teeth,...
art Albertina increases museum staff because of climate protests Klaus Albrecht Schröderposes in front of the Albertina in Vienna. photo © Tobias Steinmaurer/APA/dpa The museum director in Vienna understands the "justified anger" of climate activists, but he wants to protect the works of art from paint or adhesive attacks. The Viennese art museum Albertina has hired a dozen new employees to protect against climate protests. They check that activists do not smuggle glue or paint into this museum to damage...
Gudrun Köhl spent a large part of her life in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum in the Isartor, at this special place of remembrance for the comedian couple Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin. Hardly anyone else knew the old walls as well as she did. "Sometimes, when I was still sitting here at night, the house started to crack and rumble," Gudrun Köhl said many years ago Süddeutsche Zeitung. She worked here for more than forty years, ten years as a landlady in...
This is what paradise could look like. Pavilions and tents in blooming gardens. In between cypresses, plane trees and huge flowers. This scene is depicted on a yağlik, an Ottoman linen cloth embroidered on the narrow side, which was used to cover the knees when eating. You could also say napkin to it. The motifs mentioned were embroidered on the cloth in gold, silver, red, dark green and other colors. The special feature: the cloth has no front and back,...
Thomas Hoepker himself would probably have recognized the iconographic status of his photograph "View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, September 11, 2001" at some point. After all, the now 86-year-old German Magnum photographer, who was even president of the photo agency from 2003 to 2007, has an extremely well-trained eye for that one special moment that makes a photograph stand out from the flood of images and turn it into an eye-catcher. And yet it was Ulrich Pohlmann, curator and...
There's this monstrous number: 123423801. It's glowing in red digits on a digital scoreboard. Since the opening of the exhibition "The Last Europeans" in the Jewish Museum, it has counted backwards. The installation is like a warning prologue for this show. The 123 million are the deaths caused by European wars and acts of violence in the 20th century. A figure that is arguably not even complete, although it includes victims of atrocities committed by European powers outside the continent.At...
The painter and art teacher Ingrid Köhler is offering a two-part workshop as part of the accompanying program for the special exhibition currently being shown by the archive and museum of the city of Grafing under the title "Arkadia - Alfred Schöpffe and his dream from the south". With the motto "Inspiration South: Landscape painting - from the sketch to the picture" the artist conveys possibilities of approaching the artistic work to those who are interested.The event will take place...
Foreign tourists do not find the German Museum, Checkpoint Charlie or the Green Vault most appealing - but rather the Medieval Crime Museum in a town in western Central Franconia. Why not? Of Olaf Przybilla, Rothenburg Last summer, the experts from the German National Tourist Board asked on their online portal which German museums were most appealing to foreign visitors. And all sorts of things would come to mind: maybe one of the Munich houses, the Pinakothek, the German Museum?...
