Kunsthalle Tübingen is an

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in the

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Tübingen Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

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. It was founded (and the erection of its building financed) in 1971 by Paula Zundel and Dr. Margarethe Fischer-Bosch, daughters of the industrialist

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(founder of

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) in memory of painter Georg Friedrich Zundel, Paula Zundel's late husband. The building was erected during the big northern expansion of Tübingen in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the Wanne district (a.o.) was built almost from scratch as a residential area on the town's (formerly) rural northern hills. For the first eleven years of its existence, it hosted mainly exhibitions of

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and

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. From 1982, it also frequently presented the works of painters of the

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, e.g. Cézanne,

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Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Gug ...

, while keeping up the focus on

and contemporary art. The first director of the Kunsthalle and, so far, for most of its existence, was

Götz Adriani Götz Adriani (born 21 November 1940) is a German art historian, art conservator, and art museum director. He worked at Kunsthalle Tübingen, and directed the Museum of Contemporary Art at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Biograph ...

, from 1971 to 2005. His main theme was the leading role of the

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and early 20th-century French art for international modernity. Adriani managed to organize the first exhibitions in Germany of the works many of the French painters of the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Kunsthalle Tübingen. As for contemporary art, he was helpful in promoting the careers of artists such as

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(1972), Richard Hamilton (1974), and

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(1975). From 2006 to 2009, Martin Hellmond was the director at Kunsthalle. The current director (

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) is Dr. Nicole Fritz. Since 2003, the museum is financed by a charitable

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(before, it had been an institution of the city of Tübingen), consisting of private donations and the money of the Zundel family.

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