Münchenbryggeriet

Posted on July 23, 2015 Updated on July 23, 2015

Completed this project a few weeks ago after working on it for quite a while. It’s a screen print in three layers, the brown tones of the rock I created by layering the red layer over the green, and thinning the red to about 50% opacity.

The image comes from this photo I took last year while I was in Stockholm, Sweden. The name of the piece is the name of the factory compound you can see in the background, “Münchenbryggeriet” carved in the black stone marker on the right side. We asked a local what the factory was used for and were told it was historically a brick factory.  However, I wanted to double-check so I researched that factory, one of the most iconic buildings in Stockholm, and found out that it actually meant “Munich Brewery”.

A Munich-based brewing company named The Munich Brewing Company expanded and opened this new location in Stockholm in 1857. The factory continued to produce beer until 1971. Since then it has been used as an event/conference center.