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The Building

The Neue Nationalgalerie as a visionary building

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The Building

The Neue Nationalgalerie as a visionary building

The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), completed between 1965 and 1968, embodies the spirit of new beginnings that was alive in the West Berlin of the postwar period. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, its architect, is considered a visionary. As early as 1942, he had written a theoretical article entitled Museum for a Small City, in which he pursued a vision that he would be able to realize physically twenty years later with the Neue Nationalgalerie in the metropolis of Berlin: a gathering place for many people, an oasis in the middle of the city that brings together the opposing poles of nature and art, openness and intimacy — a groundbreaking place that radiates beyond the Kulturforum.

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