Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Brutalist concrete exhibition hall for contemporary art, pierced by a Joseph Beuys stovepipe.
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This guide to the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf on Grabbeplatz follows Joseph Beuys and a concrete exhibition hall he wanted gone. It reaches back to the grand eighteen-eighty-one hall paid for by the Kaiser, the war that wrecked it, and the Brutalist block locals nicknamed the art bunker. Best heard outside on the square, looking up at the facade.
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