Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

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On 8 May 1981 opened the Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais. For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, the municipal art collections had their own rooms for a permanent exhibition of urban art property, space for changing exhibitions, a graphic cabinet, a courtyard and garden for the presentation of sculptures as well as rooms for accompanying activities such as film, video, slide shows, painting and crafts. Not to mention magazines and workshop rooms, and also offices for the administration.

Over the next 15 years found the City Gallery in the Prinz-Max-Palais, with over 60 special place within the Karlsruhe museum landscape. . Presentations such as Palladio "(1981/82)," Erich Heckel "(1983)," Spitzweg - Schwind - Slow "(1984)," Holomedia '86 "(1986)," Back to nature, but how "(? 1988), "sculpture from the Louvre " (1989), "Paul Klee - Growth is stirring" (1990), "Art Treasures of Saxony" (1991), Markus Lüpertz "(1992)," Wilhelm Schnarrenberger "(1993), "Georg Baselitz" (1993), "Karl Hubbuch" (1993/94), "Picasso Live" (1994), "Emil Schumacher - gouache" (1994), "Women on the Move" (1995), "Horst Antes'? (1995-96) and "From the happiness of life. French art of the 18th Century from the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg "(1996) found strong regional and sometimes international attention. The catalog, in which such exhibitions under the title "For 15 years Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais Karlsruhe 1981 - in 1996," recapitulates in summary, is the price of DM 28, - still to have. With the presentation of Hermann Billing. An architect Baden between historicism and the new building, "concluded the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe in the Prinz-Max-Palais in 1997 its local exhibitions.
In the summer of 1997 moved the City from gallery from the Prinz-Max-Palais, referring to its new home in the atrium 10 of the Hall building A at the Lawrence Street in the immediate vicinity and under the same roof with the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM). This move in the hall was due to a council decision of 25 May 1993. This changed the address: was from the Municipal Gallery in the Prinz-Max-Palais simply Städtische Galerie in Karlsruhe (ZKM in). A new chapter in the history of the City Gallery has been turned.