Dusseldorf - E. ON snaps in the "museum kunst palast" Soon the lights? Could be. For the energy company's financial moves sharply as a sponsor.
Just over ten years, E. ON rescued the great need of repair Palace of Arts (1902 built). With the establishment of a foundation, the Group rinsed five million euros in 1998 once the object. There were also a year for ten-year contract guaranteed 1.2 million euros.
This basic funding secured the payment of ongoing operating costs of the museum States - and the long term of the contract, the arts were able to sleep peacefully in charge.
This could be concluded that: "It was decided to extend the contract by only five years instead of for another ten years," said Düsseldorf art department head Hans-Georg blaze the EXPRESS. "In order to have more planning security, I would have a longer contract for the Foundation have been better."
OB also met Dirk Elbers, EXPRESS in the holiday in Majorca, said: "First and foremost, it is good, is still the treaty at all." But the outcome is still a further and more serious than the shortening of the hook "ownership" contract. So far, E. ON was pumping in addition to this namely 1.5 million euros a year in exhibitions.
Gone! The energy company wants only to concentrate on specific projects. As the exhibition "Bonjour Russia", which is fully incorporated.
Device, the "museum kunst palast" now financially to lurch? "No," says blaze. "We'll also supported by other companies." After the EXPRESS information flows primarily from trading company Metro Group, "Industry Giants" Evonik "and the Swiss National Bank six-figure sums to Dusseldorf.
Blaze: "Nevertheless, it would be for the Foundation course, pleasant, E. ON would have been his involvement in the form continued as before."
