«Die Neue Sammlung [Munich] was founded in pursuit of a vision. “Humanizing society through design” was the way one of our directors described this goal. Today, we may no longer believe in this dream, something that manifests itself in objects. And yet almost a century after the collection was established, the items of artistic striving displayed here are the visible signs of that vision [...]»
Neue Sammlung [Pinakothek der Moderne], Munich
ref. Florian Hufnagl, director, Design Museums of the World, catalogue of the exhibition, Neues Museum in Nuremberg, 2004