Construction company tackles wet damage

Created: 07/05/2022, 07:00

By: Gerti Reichl

The cube of the extension to the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, which opened in 2008, is being renovated.

Photo: Stefan Schweihofer © Stefan Schweihofer

If you want to visit the Olaf Gulbransson Museum in the Tegernsee Kurgarten these days, you have to walk through scaffolding when you enter.

The extension building is being renovated.

Tegernsee - It is visible to every passer-by in the Kurgarten: the extension of the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, which was inaugurated in 2008, has recently had to undergo renovation.

"Outside and inside", as Michael Beck, chairman of the Olaf Gulbransson Society and curator, reports.

Of course, the construction project has nothing to do with the rush that the partly underground, partly above-ground museum last experienced with the Chagall show – even though more than 17,000 visitors recently streamed in to see “A love story.

Daphnis and Chloé and Other Works".

For the first time, construction workers have to lend a hand to the distinctive gray building.

Because the cube does not have a roof overhang, rain makes the building difficult, says Michael Beck, explaining the measure.

In order to avoid damage in the future, the above-ground part of the museum is now to be wrapped in an artificially produced composite material.

This consistently applied surface plaster is intended to prevent moisture from penetrating the building.

The flat roof itself also needs to be re-sealed.

Work is also being done on the inside: all the walls have been clad.

They ensure a visually calm image and offer the opportunity to also show larger works.

Read here: Through the town of Tegernsee to the eye of the needle.

The Management Board was not the only one to decide on the form and scope of the restructuring measures.

Monument preservationists, the city of Tegernsee and the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich as the "mother" of the museum also have a say.

According to Beck, it is still unclear whether the lettering will remain in its previous position, across the entrance.

The chairman has a stele in mind, on which the name "Olaf Gulbransson Museum" can be read in its typical letters.

"The final solution is still being decided," says Beck.

The aim is to make the building look simple, in keeping with the original part of the museum built in 1966 by the architect Sep Ruf.

Michael Beck is pleased that trees have now been removed to give the museum some air.

"If it were up to me, there could be even more to create a line of sight to the town hall and the lake,"

In any case, the construction companies have to step on the gas.

The next special exhibition "From Renoir to Jawlensky", which has what it takes to become a crowd puller again, opens on July 23.  

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