The annex to the cultural and convention center Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, is completed.

With a total floor space of 5,500 square meters, the new wing adds a multi-purpose conference area and an art museum along with café and foyer to the chamber music hall and the Great Hall.

The art museum, Museum Würth 2, will open its doors to the general public on 28 June.

It presents principal works of modern and contemporary art of the Würth Collection. Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG spent roughly EUR 39 million on the annex. The keys were officially handed over on Sunday, 21 June.
Museum Würth 2, featuring rooms with a height of more than five meters, provides ideal conditions for highlights of contemporary and modern art of the Würth Collection.

The annex fulfils the wish of entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth to create a space where the masterpieces of artists of the late 19th, the 20th and 21st century in the Würth Collection can be put on permanent display, similar to the permanent exhibition of the Old Masters of the Würth Collection at Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall.

A frosted glass ceiling ensures subtle changes in illumination. The completely glassed belvedere of Museum Würth 2 opens out onto the Hohenlohe landscape and the spacious sculpture park around Carmen Würth Forum, displaying works by such internationally acclaimed sculptors as Niki de Saint Phalle all the way to Tony Cragg. The cabinet on the lower floor is reserved for smaller formats and light-sensitive works.

A leafy interior court, the adjacent museum shop and Café Atrium connect the museum and the conference area.

The new conference area includes eleven rooms that can be connected to house up to 700 people. On top of the Great Hall suitable for events attended by up to 2,500 people, these meeting rooms are perfectly suited for smaller gatherings or large events with workshops and committee meetings organized in parallel to the main event.

Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Würth Group's Family Trusts, called the official opening of Museum Würth 2 with an exhibition of the high points of the collection "a kind of a finale of my life’s mission, my life’s work."

The Würth Collection comprises about 18,300 works of art from about five centuries that the entrepreneur has put together in the course of almost fifty years. "Carmen Würth Forum constitutes a very unusual combination of art, culture and business which is precisely what makes it so special. Now, Carmen Würth Forum is the power center of the entire Würth Group." In 2020, the Würth Group looks back on 75 years of corporate history.
 
“With the second construction stage, we will complete Carmen Würth Forum and implement Reinhold Würth’s vision of a building as a meeting place and gesture to the employees of Würth. It is a symbol of their community beyond the workplace and an interface between the company and the general public.”
David Chipperfield.

Museum 2 will open with the exhibition “The Long View. Reinhold Würth and His Art Collection”, a distillation of about 150 outstanding contemporary and modern works of art. Visitors will encounter classic works of the Würth Collection by Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Robert Longo, Pablo Picasso and Gerhard Richter.

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Sir David Alan Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and was raised on a farm in Devon, in the southwest of England. He studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1980. He later worked with Douglas Stephen, Norman Foster, and Richard Rogers before founding his own firm, David Chipperfield Architects, in 1985.

The firm has grown to include offices in London, Berlin (1998), Shanghai (2005), Milan (2006), and Santiago de Compostela (2022). His first notable commission was a commercial interior for Issey Miyake in London, which led him to work in Japan. In the United Kingdom, his first significant building was the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, completed in 1997.

Chipperfield has developed over one hundred projects across Asia, Europe, and North America, including civic, cultural, academic, and residential buildings. In Germany, he led the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin (1993–2009) and the construction of the James-Simon-Galerie (1999–2018).

He has been a professor at various universities in Europe and the United States, including the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and Yale University. In 2012, he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. In 2017, he established the RIA Foundation in Galicia, Spain, dedicated to research on sustainable development in the region.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and has been recognized as an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). He has received numerous awards, including the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2011, the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2013, and the Pritzker Prize in 2023. In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 2010 he was knighted for his services to architecture, and in 2021 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the United Kingdom.

Chipperfield's career is distinguished by his focus on the relationship between architecture and its context, as well as his commitment to sustainability and the preservation of architectural heritage.

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Published on: June 25, 2020
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