SEEING THE BLUE RIDER COLLECTION FOR REAL - CHAPTER 2
The Lenbachhaus was close to my hotel although for some reason I took a rather long way around to get there. It is virtually the opening gate to the museum area. The trickling rain had stopped and a slight sign of sun was shining down on the outside café. That would be for later. I arrived around 4pm and thank goodness the centre was open until 9pm that evening. I didn’t have to rush nor would I have been capable of doing so after the morning’s performance. (Otto Dix/Beckmann) The area I got to know so well - starting up on the top It was during my courses at the Ecole du Louvre this summer that I had heard about the Lenbachhaus. It holds the largest Blue Rider collection in the world, not to mention the Wassily Kandinsky. I wasn’t too sure if I had time to see everything but until my stomach really complained, I would see what I could see. The Lenbachhaus also holds one of Germany’s and Europe’s most important groups of avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century. The...