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Neue
Nationalgalerie - Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin, Germany
Architect
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
Date Built
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1968
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Location
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Corner of
Potsdamer Strasse and Reichpietschufer
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Description
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During the Cold War the National Gallery
in Berlin was on the Eastern side of the Wall on
Museum Island. In 1968 the Neue
Nationalgalerie was built on the corner of
Potsdamer Strasse and Reichpietschufer to a
design by the architect Mies van der Rohe.
He was widely regarded as one of the masters of
modern architecture and was responsible for many
prominent building in Chicago and New
York. He also designed the Toronto
Dominion Centre in Canada, the dark towers seen
in the image below.
The gallery's website says of its mission that,
"The New National
Gallery, the "temple of light and glass"
houses European paintings and sculpture of the
20th Century, from modernism to art of the
1960s. Among them are works by artists such as
Munch, Kirchner, Picasso, Klee, Feininger, Dix
and Kokoschka."
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