01-2016: First art purchase of the circle of friends
It had to be weatherproof, exhibited without a frame, and preferably outdoors - just like the gas station advertisement whose slogan "Pack the tiger in the tank" is still etched in our memories today. This is how the young pop artist Uwe Lausen imagined his...
14-05-2015: Cooperation exhibition Joa Baldinger FischerBauKunst Polling
A satellite project of the DASMAXIMUM Foundation will take place in Polling near Weilheim starting on May 16: once the site of a flourishing Augustinian canon's monastery, one of the few remaining professorial buildings by Johann Michael Fischer (1692-1766) has been given a new use as an exhibition building there after extensive restoration. This summer, in cooperation with the MAXIMUM, large-format landscape watercolors by the American artist Joa Baldinger will be shown here.
01-2015: KunstWortKunst The award winners have been chosen
After several jury rounds from November to January, in which the youth literature critic Christine Knödler and the writer Norbert Niemann, together with five other experts, thoroughly scrutinized the results of KunstWortKunst 2014, the prize winners have now been determined.
15-10-2014: School cluster project Creative Writing in the museum DASMAXIMUM
Dr. Robert Anzeneder, director of the Johannes-Heidenhain-Gymnasium in Traunreut - the JHG is a reference school of the cluster and thus coordinator and contact person of the TU - had used the importance and central location of the MAXIMUM in Traunreut for the year 2014 to put art and creative writing in the focus of extracurricular education for once. Together with her colleagues . . .
08-2014: Dan Flavin in Upper Bavaria
One of Flavin's largest light works, Untitled (to Ksenija), is on view in the Kunstbau of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich until September 7, 2014. Flavin developed this expansive installation two years before his death for the opening of the Kunstbau, designed by architect Uwe Kiessler, in 1994. Art patrons Heiner and Philippa Friedrich donated this outstanding work to the Lenbachhaus in memory of their parents, with the stipulation that it be shown at regular intervals. In it, Flavin takes up the architectural conditions and lends . . .
22.05.2014: Lighthouse Project Wort:Bilder 2014: Innovative and inclusive
Pauline Füg and Henrikje Stanze at a session in front of Imi Knoebel's painting Fishing Blue I, 2008Photo: DASMAXIMUMDASMAXIMUM is visited by numerous art travelers from far and wide due to its international significance. But a special part of "their" museum is supposed to be...
24-04-2014: WORT:BILDER 2014: Innovative and inclusive
With the Chiemgau Culture Days 2014, the lighthouse project WORT:BILDER is now being continued in an expanded form. It is not about art history, but about the joy of observation and one's own creativity.
14-08-2014: Traunreut Trilogy: ArtContemporary, Industrial History, Vintage Cars
With the DASMAXIMUM KunstGegenwart Foundation, art patron Heiner Friedrich donated an art collection of international standing to the Chiemgau region. His father Harald Friedrich had founded the Alzmetall company in Altenmarkt after the war and produced the "Spatz" small car in the 1950s on what is now the museum site in Traunreut. In his private life, too, he had a passion for noble vehicles. A small selection from Harald Friedrich's classic car collection, including the Spatz and . . .
02-2014: Circle of friends and supporters DASMAXIMUM e.V. visits exhibition in Burghausen
Gloomy and cold weather could not dampen the interest of the approximately 30 art lovers who were welcomed by the chairmen of the circle of friends, Dr. Robert Anzeneder and Dr. Peter Lämmerhirdt. Modern art often does not reveal itself at first glance. All the more valuable were the explanations of the art representative of the city of Burghausen, Ines Auerbach M.A., and the director . . .
26-07-2013: New installation of a sculpture by John Chamberlain
Recently, the Chamberlain collection of the DASMAXIMUM Foundation has grown. BURNTPIANO" was set up in the area in front of the Chamberlain Hall. The over three meter high . . .
07-2013: Circle of friends and supporters DASMAXIMUM e.V. founded
Art needs friends: The DASMAXIMUM Foundation in Traunreut is now supported by a "Friends and Sponsors of DASMAXIMUM e.V.". On the initiative of the notary and art lover Georg Mehler, a good 20 art lovers met in July for the founding meeting of this association, which has set itself the goal . . .
28-06-2013: "The staged provocation" - Heide Stolz at the Städtische Galerie Traunstein
Heide Stolz, Untitled [from a series on the keyword "energy"], c. 1965-1967 "The staged provocation" - photography by Heide Stolz from the 1960s, exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Traunstein: June 28 to July 28, 2013 The photographs by Heide Stolz...