Hans Kollhoff's Alexanderplatz

 

as seen at the Berlinische Galerie  

Comments

[И.Е. Станков]

Interesting to see. I struggle to find any merit in this proposition.
What is the point of trying to recreate a snippet of Manhattan before International Style has happened in the centre of 21st century Berlin?
...by destroying an absurd but amazing 60s radical modernist utopia.

[William Thirteen]

hi Ivo!

it seems that this is Kollhoff's specialty - "nostalgic imitation of traditional formalism" - backwards into the future. One positive for this proposal - it would have made Alexa impossible!
Kollhoff is also the current president of the Bauakademie....

[Jim]

I agree, it's ghastly. I've seen more soul at a Kraftwerk gig (actually that's unfair, Kraftwerk 'got soul' in a different way...). But like you say, is it any worse than the Alexa and other stuff that's forthcoming in the Platz?

I assume this isn't from something that's on at the Berlinische at the moment?

[William Thirteen]

no, it seemed to be part of their permanent collection. i was down there to see the john Heartfield exhibition and a screening of "Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück" which, in addition to starring the lovely Ilse Trautschold, is the only silent film i am aware of with Berlinerisch intertitles!

[Alberto Basso]

an example of the job of Hans Kollhoff in Walter Benjamin Platz in Berlin

[Alberto Basso]

here is the link: http://www.ilcasone.it/web/realizzazioni_scheda.php?valo=e_5_6

[William Thirteen]

oh yes, i forgot about that one!