The Lepanto room
Twelve Twombly canvases in a hall built for them alone.
Museum Brandhorst is the newest of the museums in Munich's Kunstareal, opened in 2009 to hold the collection of Udo and Anette Brandhorst โ some twelve hundred works of art made after 1945, given to the Bavarian state. Sauerbruch Hutton designed the building, and for many passers-by its exterior is better known than its contents: thirty-six thousand vertical ceramic rods in twenty-three colours, so that the shade shifts as you move or as the light changes. Two rooms are the core of the collection. One was purpose-built for the American painter Cy Twombly's Lepanto cycle: twelve very large canvases about a naval battle fought in 1571, hung in a top-lit hall with nothing else in it. The other belongs to Andy Warhol, of whom the museum owns one of the strongest holdings in Europe. Alongside them are works by Sigmar Polke, Martin Kippenberger, Alex Katz and Cindy Sherman. This is a comparatively small, tightly focused museum that takes an hour to ninety minutes, which makes it a good companion to a longer visit at the Pinakothek der Moderne two minutes' walk away. Entry is only seven euros, and one euro on Sundays. Even if contemporary art is not your subject, the Twombly hall alone justifies the ticket, being one of very few rooms anywhere built around a single work.
Twelve Twombly canvases in a hall built for them alone.
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Theresienstrasse 35a, 80333 Munich
Partly. A good deal of what hangs here asks for patience with abstraction and conceptual work, and you may come away with little if the subject leaves you cold. But the building itself and the Lepanto hall are direct visual experiences that need no theory, and the ticket is only seven euros โ one on Sundays โ so the risk is small.
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