Moving into a shop that is completely unsuitable for a gallery with only 75 square meters sounds like a willingness to take risks, but Andreas Baumgartl has not regretted the decision to this day. From here, he was able to act and develop. During our conversation, he runs out onto Prannerstraße, points from one side of the street to the other with an outstretched arm and lists the galleries in the street, including the art passage in the Bayerischer Hof. Prannerstraße, through which he liked to walk with his grandfather even as a young boy, is slowly becoming an art and culture mile again, as it once was. “I’m happy about that,” he says and takes a few steps further into the second gallery in the courtyard of the former Palais Seinsheim in Prannerstraße. “I thought about it for a long time,” says Baumgartl, “but it was such a great opportunity, I couldn’t pass it up.”
And so his new second gallery was born, three times the size of the old one. As soon as it is possible again, there will be vernissages with parties – for Baumgartl, they are simply part of it, he says. In the new gallery, you can no longer only view the large, colorful works of art through the shop window, but also up close. Baumgartl has now opened his second gallery door. “I’ve arrived where I wanted to be” – and that’s all that counts. However, the small gallery that he once called “my new love” will not become the old love. Both now share the title and the heart of the gallerist. Another point of radical change: If you look around your gallery today, you will only see what you like to look at. He sits at his desk and lets his gaze wander around the room: it’s colorful, fresh, cheeky, and women and car motifs keep popping up. He only does what he enjoys and enjoys. Andreas Baumgartl is not interested in art as a pure investment. “It can do so much more,” says the gallerist: it can bring joy, be the occasion for interesting encounters and “help you think”. Above all, he is inspired by American Pop Art such as James Francis Gill or the expressive abstract works of Leon Löwentraut because they take up current trends. For us, he has dealt in particular with the following three works.
Quick Fact
Address
Baumgartl Gallery
Prannerstraße 5 (Bayerischer Hof) / 7 (Palais Seinsheim)
80333 Munich
Opening hours
Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sat. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Contact
Phone: +49 89 2289242
E-mail: ab@g-ab.de
Website: www.andreasbaumgartl.de
