New extension to the Arp Mueum

Berlin (ots) - Star architect Richard Meier's extension to the Arp
Museum was officially opened last week on Friday, September 28, at a
ceremony attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Social
Democratic party leader Kurt Beck.

"To me, the only place for a museum was at the top of the hill,"
Meier had said long before at a press conference. "I love museums,"
he added. "Museums are places where people come together and where
viewers can have a one-on-one relationship to works of art."

Dr. Dieter Lange, chairman of the Arp foundation, had been
fighting together with architect Richard Meier for more than
seventeen years in order to get this famous place on the river Rhine
for this Europe's first class art museum.

Dieter Lange: "This month we have been successful in building the
last castle on the river Rhine only for art. A few kilometers later,
the river Rhine is leaving the volcano rocks of the famous castle and
wine region Rhein-Mosel-Nahe and is heading towards the Netherlands,
passing Cologne, Duesseldorf and other big cities."

Arp (1886 - 1966) had always been a real European artist: He was
an Alsatian avant-garde poet, painter and sculptor who became one of
the founders of the anti-establishment Dada movement. His wife Sophie
Taeuber-Arp (1889 - 1943), a Swiss national, was both a painter and
sculptor and active both in the Dada and surrealist movements. Over
400 of the couple's works are owned by the state of
Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Arp foundation with chairman Dieter Lange expects a lot more
than the first 8.000 visitors within two days. Lange: "This is a real
high potential estate and location for what we called 'a place where
European leaders can meet'. The variety of art on this outstanding
location impressed also a lot of my business friends to think about
congresses or having think tanks together not only in the surrounding
of Hans Arp's art, we also offer a huge workshop for managers to be
creative on a highly sophisticated level."

Interviews by Frank Ossenbrink, der Frank Ossenbrink Media Group.

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