Museum für Moderne Kunst
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The Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1981. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein
. Because of its triangular shape, it is called "piece of cake".
The core of the museum is the legacy of the collector Karl Ströher with some 65 works of Pop art
and Minimalism
.
Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein, is an Austrian architect and designer.Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1960...
. Because of its triangular shape, it is called "piece of cake".
The core of the museum is the legacy of the collector Karl Ströher with some 65 works of Pop art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
and Minimalism
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
.
External links
- Museum für Moderne Kunst, official webpage