page_title: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Kunsthalle Bielefeld Deutsch: Die ehemalige Parkanlage an der Kunsthalle Bielefeld mit Wasserbecken (Mai 1985)
context_page_description: The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a modern and contemporary art museum in Bielefeld, Germany. It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker.
context_section_description: The museum is located on the south-west edge of Bielefeld's old town. It was built in 1968 by the American architect Philip Johnson in the International Style that he had founded, and is his only museum building in Europe. Johnson had been invited by the museum's director Joachim Wolfgang von Moltke and Rudolf August Oetker in 1966. In 1994, Frank O. Gehry proposed an extension to the existing building; it was never realized. The museum was refurbished in 2002.
  Cubic in shape and with a square ground level, it has three storeys above ground, two below, and a total exhibition space of 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft).  The facade is of red sandstone.
caption: Former water basin in the Sculpture Garden (May 1985)
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