Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

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Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, with a Calder sculpture in the left foreground

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a recently opened (March 2005) art museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

The cubic museum building with 5000 m² of display space was designed by Berlin architects Hascher and Jehle. During the day it looks like a glass cube, and at nights the interior lighted limestone walls become visible.

The museum's collection comes from the previous "Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart". The city's collection goes back to a gift from the Marchese Silvio della Valle di Casanova in 1924. It contains one of the most important collections of the work of Otto Dix and also works from Willi Baumeister, Adolf Hölzel, Dieter Roth, and others.