Future Perspectives for Work and Art:
An Innovative
Deutsche Bank AG Building Opens in Stuttgart
Opening event:
Main hall of the
Deutsche Bank building in Stuttgart
In
Germany, Stuttgart has long been considered second only to the stock
market capitol Frankfurt as a place of trade. But as far as art is
concerned, Stuttgart also holds a strong position in southern Germany with
its institutions, galleries, two academies and vital art scene. The art in
the Deutsche Bank's new and innovative building, which opens on September
27, 2004 in the center of Stuttgart, reflects this cultural diversity.
Flexibility is what characterizes
Deutsche Bank's new building on Theodor-Heuss-Strasse in Stuttgart. With
the innovative
"db Smart Office" the employees here are offered the
possibility of designing their own work space according to individual
needs and requirements. Even the building's architecture reflects the idea
of a mobile office where details can be altered at any time. No matter if
this is applied to one's own desk or to another place within the building.
In a "clever office" the employee always has his or her files at hand in a
roll container. Short routes and direct communication are priorities. The
progressive concept was developed by Deutsche Bank together with the
Fraunhofer Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (IAO) as well
as with large firms - of course on site in Stuttgart.
The bank's
concept fits well into this atmosphere of free spatial design, whereby a
reference to the cultural milieu can be made in every branch. For the new
building in the city center, works by artists rooted in Stuttgart
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have been selected that have a spectrum ranging from
Classical Modernism to contemporary young art. Next to works by
Willi Baumeister or
Oskar Schlemmer, who dedicated his central theme - the relationship
between man and space - to his design for the
Triadische Ballett, there will also be works exhibited by
Anton Stankowski, who designed the famous Deutsche Bank logo in the 70s.
In 1951, Stankowski founded his own graphic studio in the Killesberg in
Stuttgart. Together with Willi Baumeister,
Walter Cantz, Egon Eiermann,
Mia Seeger and others, a new cultural circle was formed which defined
decisive impulses in post-war art, architecture and design.
from the left:
Wilhelm von Haller, member of the executive
board of the Deutsche Bank AG,
Erwin Teufel, the Minister President of the
County of Baden-Württemberg,
Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, the Stuttgart Mayor,
Dr.Joseph Ackermann, the chair speaker of the
Deutsche Bank AG.
In addition the
internationally successful, younger art generation will also place accents
in Stuttgart's new building. There will be works by the Esslingen born
Tobias Rehberger, and by Karin Sander
who in 2002 realized her project
wordsearch in New York for Deutsche Bank's art series moment,
and who was also represented in the same year at the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart with a large retrospective. After over two years
of construction, the bank's new building will celebrate its grand opening
on September 27th, whereby, in addition to
Wilhelm von Haller as member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bank
AG, Stuttgart, other prominent speakers can be expected: the chair speaker
of the Deutsche Bank AG,
Dr. Joseph Ackermann, the Stuttgart Mayor,
Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, and the Minister President of the County of
Baden-Württemberg, Erwin Teufel
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Additional information about the opening of the new building can be
found in the special addition, which will be published on the previous
Saturday, September 25th in the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
Translation: Laura Bruce
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