02-10-2019: Successful start of the writing competition KunstWortKunst
With over 80 participating students, the interest in the current writing competition KunstWortKunst is overwhelming.
14-09-2019: Tour "Tumbled from the pedestal - the expansion of the concept of sculpture".
After the Second World War, many artists developed completely new forms of three-dimensional sculpturing which we want to discover on our joint tour at DASMAXIMUM.
28-08-2019: Federal Cross of Merit for Heiner Friedrich
Heiner Friedrich "has put Traunreut on the world map of modern art and, as an art lover and museum founder, has made a significant contribution to public well-being," said the Bavarian Premier, Dr Markus Söder, about the ...
22-07-2019: Lecture Johannes Stüttgen: Warhol + Beuys
They could not be more different: the two most influential and important visual artists in the USA and Europe after 1945, Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys: the one a Pop Art star and . . .
05-07-2019: "Art: Silence Speaks"
Under the title "Art: Silence Speaks", a detailed and richly illustrated report on our museum benefactor Heiner Friedrich...
24-05-2019: ARGE Culture Night at DASMAXIMUM
The fifth culture night of the ARGE advertising community Traunreut is opened on 24 May at 18 o'clock in the entrance building of the museum DASMAXIMUM by the ARGE executive committee Wilhelm cutter as well as by mayor Klaus knight ceremonially. . .
19-05-2019: International Museum Day
Lots of peace, light and space on more than 4,300 m2 for over 200 works of art and their viewers. Between the halls, colourful and lush flowering meadows invite you to enjoy. Over a cup of coffee, impressions can be exchanged, and the museum team around Dr. Birgit Löffler is ready to answer any questions about art and artists, museums and projects. This is what the museum promises...
18-05-2019: Tour "Who does not want to think, flies out": Joseph Beuys and his students
The work of Joseph Beuys is actually directly accessible in its archaic choice of material, but also unsettles in its mysteriousness. What the exceptional German artist and museum founder Heiner Friedrich...
06-09.05.2019: WORT:BILDER
Already for the 7th time DASMAXIMUM invited within the project WORT:BILDER people to the museum who have little contact with art in their everyday life. Inspired and authorized by Gary Glazner's Alzheimer's, the...
10-04-2019: Oak planting in honor of Josef Beuys
On April 10, the foundation DASMAXIMUM, together with the city of Traunreut, planted three more oaks with basalt steles in honor of Joseph Beuys at the entrance to the museum´s premises, celebrating the reopening of the completely refurbished Fridtjof-Nansen- Straße in Traunreut.
16-03-2019: Tour Art is (not) a commodity: Heiner Friedrich as gallery owner
In 1963 Heiner Friedrich opened his first gallery in Munich, others in Cologne and New York were to follow. Friedrich's galleries became important shop windows for international contemporary art and helped world-famous artists such as Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Andy Warhol to achieve a breakthrough throughout Europe. Many of the products exhibited in the DASMAXIMUM...
06-02-2019: The BEST Museum in Chiemgau 2018
... is DASMAXIMUM, according to the users of the news portal OVB24.de.
For this we got the Chiemgausbeste.de AWARD 2018. We say THANK YOU!
Weekend 12/13 January closed
Due to the weather the museum DASMAXIMUM in Traunreut will be closed next weekend. After already the first January weekend with a thick snow layer on the light donating roof windows, tons of roof avalanches, buried escape doors...
05-01-2019: At the beginning of the year 2019
In December, the museum year at MAXIMUM came to an end with a major campaign: behind the scenes it was rumbling when, after a year and a journey to Basel and Washington, Georg Baselitz's monumental cedar wood figure "Frau Ultramarin" returned to the delight of all employees and regular guests. In an elaborate action with...
14-12-2018: City Hall Square oak planting in honor of Joseph Beuys.
Together with the city of Traunreut, the DASMAXIMUM Foundation has again planted "in honor of Joseph Beuys" : two heat-resistant Hungarian oaks have been standing since Friday . . .
21-09-2018: Exhibition UWE LAUSEN at Kunstraum Innsbruck
Uwe Lausen's fantastic and disturbing visual worlds are still among the visitor favorites at the museum DASMAXIMUM. It is hard to believe that this artist almost fell into oblivion after his early death in 1970; after all, today he is one of the most important representatives of Pop Art in Germany. He left behind a multi-layered oeuvre that can be seen in no other place as extensively as in the museum DASMAXIMUM in Traunreut. A cooperation between the Kunstraum Innsbruck and the DASMAXIMUM Foundation now makes it possible ...
13-04-2018: Heiner Friedrich awarded with culture prize of the city of Traunreut
Heiner Friedrich was awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Traunreut at a festive event hosted by Mayor Klaus Ritter with numerous guests from Germany, abroad and the USA.
24-09-2016: Opening of the New Hall
The museum area, which previously comprised five halls, will be expanded by a further 800 m² of exhibition space. There, in addition to the existing works of contemporary art by . . .
10-03-2016: Maria Zerres, Considering Dynamics and Forms of Chaos
Under the patronage of His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, the Sharjah Art Museum is pleased to present Considering Dynamics and Forms of Chaos; two parallel solo exhibitions of Angela Bulloch's and Maria Zerres' works, brought together under one title and framed by the notion of . . .
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 . . .