A Japanese maple tree unfolds its canopy of leaves in the glass-enclosed atrium of the Reinhard Ernst Museum. The choice of this variety is mainly due to the fact that its leaves will shine in a particularly beautiful red in autumn. But if you think about it, the tree could have come from nowhere else but Japan. Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki will not be present at the opening of the last building he completed during his lifetime on June 23rd – he died on June 6th at the age of 95. But with the Wiesbaden museum, the star architect from Tokyo has not only made his own dream of building ten museums around the world come true. He has also built a piece of Japanese aesthetics into the heart of the Hessian state capital.
The entrepreneur Reinhard Ernst donates a museum to the city of Wiesbaden – Culture
