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Messter, who died in December 1943, was the major German film producer before the Ufa was founded and worked in all branches of the film industry from 1896. He constructed projectors and film cameras, shot films himself, managed cinemas and discovered
famous stars such as Henry Porten and Emil Jannings.
A touring exhibition of the Potsdam Film Museum to mark the 100th anniversary of cinematography in 1995.
Deutsches Museum
The aim of the exhibition is to document the influence of children's drawing on modern art. Comparing modern art with children's drawings, almost all of which come from collections compiled by the artists themselves, is able to give a fresh insight into understanding the art of the 20th century. On view are works by Kandinsky and Münter, Klee, Picasso, Miró and Dubuffet as well as examples of the Cobra Group and contemporary art.
Kunstbau, Königsplatz Underground Station
During this weekend the Olympia Park will turn into a Mecca for rock fans. Groups such as Bon Jovi, Van Halen and Pretenders will liven things up - a top class rock event.
Tickets are obtainable form the usual booking offices.
Munich celebrates its 837th birthday. To mark the occasion the City
Tourist Office is again organizing a large international festival for
the Munich population between Marienplatz and
Odeonsplatz.
Organizer: City Tourist Office
The blueprint process in Europe and Japan, the history and application of natural and synthetic colors in everyday life are illustrated in this exhibition.
Deutsches Museum
With the help of about 40 installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and videos by young European and American artists the exhibition tries to give an insight into contemporary art production. Today the key words of art are analysis, research and remembrance, no longer innovation, utopia and progress as they were in the late 80s and early 90s.
Art Gallery of the Hypo-Bank Cultural Foundation
The alternative Tollwood attracts festival enthusiasts to the Olympic grounds. With music and cabaret, culinary delights from all over the world, Tollwood is at the same time a pleasure for the intellect and the senses.
Olympic grounds
Here the international film scene presents itself in 120 films. The program contains many German, European and world premieres. The venue for film fans is the Gasteig Arts Centre. This year's festival slogan is "What's beautiful about films is the women" (Truffault).
Internationale Filmwochen GmbH
The exhibition to mark King Ludwig II's 150 birthday "Fact and Fiction" shows documents and postcards in the Valentin Museum.
Valentin Musäum
The 1995 Munich Opera Festival offers works by Leos Janacek, Hans Werner Henze and Aribert Reimann, stylistically very diverse examples of 20th century opera. But they are consciously not presented in isolation, but - together with works by Verdi and Donizetti - incorporated into the repertoires of Mozart, Wagner and Strauss.
Bavarian State Opera
Frank Eugene, the painter and photographer born in New York, was one of the most important art photographers at the turn of the century. After returning to Munich, Eugene became the most important portrait photographer of the leading artists. Some 220 original photographs will be shown from the Photo Museum's collection and from American and European collections.
Munich City Museum
Germany's biggest Classic Open Air, which takes place every year, again presents an attractive program at the highest level.
This classical program, played by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation's Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Lorin Maazel with the choir of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation will delight the audience against the impressive backdrop of the Königsplatz.
Veranstalter: Art Concerts GmbH und Bayerischer Rundfunk
"Off we go to the Jakobi Dult" is what people traditionally say again in July when the second of Munich's popular Dults opens its doors on the Mariahilfplatz.
Organizer: City Munich Tourist Office
This exhibition centers on the artist's late works. The emphasis of this Munich retrospective is Vallotton's (1865-1925) relationship to Germany and his role as the pioneer of the New Realism. As part of the retrospective 100 oil paintings, 20 drawings, 40 graphic prints and 20 objects from the field of applied arts will be on display.
Art Gallery of the Hypo-Bank Cultural Foundation
With the traditional "Ozapft is" (the barrel is broached) the Lord Mayor opens the world's biggest popular festival at noon. For 16 days visitors from far an near throng onto the Wies'n, the venue of the Oktoberfest, to try out the old and new fairground attractions, to taste the local snacks and to enjoy beer and meals in the beer tents.
Within the framework of this theater festival international avant garde productions are performed at various Munich venues: Muffathalle, Werkraum, Kammerspiele, Marstall and Residenz Theatre.
The festival is organized by the City's Cultural Department and BMW.
This exhibition shows posters and sculptures, mainly by French Art Nouveau artists, who inspired the American dancer. Photographs and original films document Loie Fuller's dances. Brygida Maria Ochaim reconstructs and stages the famous dances with the help of a performance and videos. Installations by contemporary artists refer to Louie Fuller and her dance.
Villa Stuck
The Kirchweihdult, of Kermis Fair, traditionally concludes the Dult year on the Mariahilfplatz in Munich.
Organizer: City Tourist Office
The medieval world of sagas surrounding the Grail, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has inspired writers, musicians and artists since the time of the Romantic movement in a variety of ways. This exhibition tries for the first time to illustrate the rediscovery of the Grail myth by art in the light of selected works. One of the main features is the draft plans for the "Gralsburg" at Neuschwanstein and representations of Richard Wagner's opera themes.
Bavarian National Museum
The Marstalltheatre has managed to win the services of Peter Greenway for the project Frames on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the film. As part of an "outdoor exhibition", at nightfall light projections at 80 points in the town (Siegestor, Akademie etc) will illustrate abstract creative media used by films. At the same time it is intended to establish a relationship and picture will be on view all day in the Marstall.
Marstalltheater
Cycling fans make their annual pilgrimage in November to the Olympic Hall when the world's best cycle racing pros meet for the popular Munich Six-Day race.
Munich Olympic grounds
With a chronological presentation of Kandinsky's works, the exhibition gives an insight into the path he followed up to the point of abstraction. Kandinsky's particular method of consistently reducing what is outwardly visible to what is suggested by gestures first becomes clear when all the artistic means at his disposal are revealed.
Kunstbau, Königsplatz Underground Station
In Advent the Munich Christmas Market on the Marienplatz puts the Munich population and visitors into the right mood for Christmas.Over 100 stands offer Christmas decorations, cribs and crib figures, bees-wax candles, toys and such Yuletide delicacies as gingerbread, cinnamon stars and mulled wine. A festive musical program is planned for every evening in Advent at 5.30 PM. As this year the Christmas Market will only last three weeks.
Organizer: City Tourist Office
