Hans Dieter Schaal
Subtitle: in-between ; exhibition architecture = Ausstellungsarchitektur
By: edited by Frank R. Werner
Publisher: Ed. Axel Menges
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: mul; eng; ger
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Architecture, Modern -- Germany -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Description: "Hans Dieter Schaal is already something of a cultural institution in Germany. Trained as an architect, he always operates outside the "main stream", designing and realizing stage sets, sculptures, cemeteries, parks, squares, spatial installations or book projects, which are often trendsetters in their own field." "In the last 10 years Schaal has established a focal point that seems to be the sum of all his themes: exhibition architecture. He has provided expansive installations for the broadest possible range of exhibition subjects in such high-volume buildings as the Martin-Gropius-Bau or the Zeughaus in Berlin, the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn, the Kunstvereinsgebaude in Stuttgart, the Deutsches Postmuseum or the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. His work was never mere "exhibition design" in these cases. Instead of this he was always concerned to tell spatial stories about the exhibits or their historical background. Of course he was able to draw on his experience in stage-set design here. Admittedly Schaal would not be Schaal, if he were not to use the whole stock of ideas from his decades of "lateral thinking" or his insatiable search for archetypes and images."--Jacket.
Notes: Exhibition catalog