Landeszentralbank
Subtitle: 2000-2016, Meiningen
By: Andreas Gehrke ; text, Terence Riley
Contributors: Riley, Terence
Publisher: Drittel Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9783981886603
Subjects: Pictorial works; Architectural photography; Bank buildings; Modern Architecture; Buildings; Landeszentralbank in Meiningen
Other titles: Landeszentralbank Meiningen
Description: This architectural portrait of the vast Landeszentralbank in Meiningen echoes the visual language and format that characterises Andreas Gehrke's acclaimed trilogy depicting vacant post-war modernist buildings in Germany, although the nature of this book's subject represents a departure from that series. Completed in 2000, Hans Kollhoff's post-modern fortress housed the Landeszentralbank's Head Office in the state of Thuringia until 2016, when it was closed to be repurposed for its second functional life - this time as a storage facility for contemporary art. Gehrke's photographs capture the complex in an interim phase, showing anew the spaces and surfaces of a building not immediately discernible beneath the weight of its monumental and technical qualities. In doing so, the work serves not just as a portrait of a building lived according to its originally intended function, but also as a reading of the space that speaks to its life to come.
Notes: Chiefly illustrated.

Limited edition of 400 numbered copies.