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Beginning on September 18th, 2005, Marli Hoppe-Ritter’s comprehensive art collection is presented to the public in the MUSEUM RITTER.
The museum was designed by Swiss architect Max Dudler, who has established his reputation with compressed constructions on minimal space. His planning and realized projects also include large constructions — especially in the German architectural capital of Berlin and in Zurich. The Federal Ministry for Transportation, Construction and Housing in Berlin, for example, hearkens back to his design.
Corresponding to the collection’s focus on geometric-abstract art, the floor plan and the outline as well as the facades are oriented upon geometrically clear forms like the square (entire floor plan), the trapezoid (floors plans of both wings) and rectangle (facades and windows). The architect placed special emphasis on the lighting plan. Exhibition spaces mainly lit from above are planned for the presentation of the artworks. A sky-lit ceiling provides lively illumination with natural light in the upper story. In the new building next to the museum are a visitor’s center, the SchokoLaden (Chocolate Shop) and the SchokoWerkstatt (Chocolate Workshop) for children. The building’s composition allows these functions to be separate from each other, while a homogenous structure emerges that lifts itself from the landscape in a baseless quadratic footprint. The 12-meter high space, completely open on its end face, is hugged by two portions of the construction: the museum with a cafe on the ground floor in one section and the visitor’s center in another.
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