Raimund Abraham

The Haus für Musiker (planned since 1994, completed 2006-2017) at the Raketenstation Hombroich near Neuss is one of the two buildings realized in Germany by the Austrian-American architect Raimund Abraham (1933-2010), alongside the residential and commercial building in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse. The extraordinary round building is not only his last completed building, but also exemplifies Abraham's radicalism. In 2003, he also contributed the design for the ambitious and ultimately unrealized Hombroich Raumortlabor, a housing estate that was to be placed in the landscape like an artificial horizon with complex reference lines.

However, Abraham's drawings and imaginary architectures are almost more significant than the realized buildings. The inclusion of his extensive estate in the Egidio Marzona Collection (Berlin) now offers the opportunity to comprehensively present the planning and visionary thinking of this outstanding architect with numerous drawings, models, photos and documents as well as the holdings kept at Hombroich. The planned project is being developed in collaboration with the Archiv der Avantgarden - Ergidio Marzona at the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is expected to travel on to Italy afterwards.

Opening: 13.4.2025, 3 pm