Raimund Abraham

The House for Musicians (planned since 1994, completed 2006–2017) at the Hombroich rocket station near Neuss is one of the two buildings by the Austrian-American architect Raimund Abraham (1933–2010) realized in Germany, alongside the residential and commercial building on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse. This extraordinary circular structure is not only his last completed building, but also exemplifies Abraham's radical approach. He also contributed a design for a residential development for the ambitious, but ultimately unrealized, Hombroich Space Laboratory in 2003. The project, with its complex reference lines, was intended to be embedded in the landscape like an artificial horizon. Almost more significant than the completed buildings, however, are Abraham's drawings and imaginary architectures.

The inclusion of his extensive estate in the Egidio Marzona Collection (Berlin), offers the opportunity to comprehensively present the planning and visionary thinking of this outstanding architect, with numerous drawings, models, photographs, and documents, as well as the holdings preserved in Hombroich. The planned project is being developed in collaboration with the Avant-Garde Archive at the State Art Collections and is expected to travel to Italy afterward.

Opening: April 13, 2025, 3 p.m.