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September 18, 2010 (Opening: September 20, 2011) The 20er Haus was built in 1958 by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer (1918-1975) as a pavilion or temporaray showroom for the World Fair ins Brussels 1958. On 30 January 1958, the daily newspaper Die Presse described the exhibition hall originally designed for the Expo as "a virtually ideal foundation for a Museum of Modern Art". Karl Schwanzer adapted the steel skeleton construction to the museum’s purposes: the ground floor was glazed, the courtyard was covered with a roof, all façades were substantially modified, and the whole structure was reinstalled in the Schweizer Garten. The new museum was opened on 20 September 1962. One of the comments about the institution and its first exhibition, Art from 1900 to the Present, said that the museum represented such a break with the Viennese museum tradition "that one automatically felt as if on foreign territory when first entering the museum". The art historian Werner Hofmann wrote on the occasion of its opening: "This new building bears the signature of our age, and its spatial layout does justice to the fact that the art of this century displays a powerful and frequently aggressive self-confidence that calls for vastness and openness." The building served as an exhibition hall for the Museum of Modern Art until its collection was moved to the Museum of Modern Art - Ludwig Foundation in Vienna’s new MuseumsQuartier (the former Court Stables) in late 2001. The 20er Haus was finally incorporated into the Belvedere in the early summer of 2002. |
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| Source | Flickr: 20er Haus during the reconstruction, Sept. 18, 2010 | ||
| Author | Alfred Weidinger | ||
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