MUNICH.- In spring 2011 Chris Dercon, director of the Haus der Kunst, will leave for London, where he will take over as director of the Tate Modern. He will continue to work with the Haus der Kunst supervising the exhibition, “Carlo Mollino, Rigorously Eclectic,” planned for fall 2011. His successor, to be named by the Ministry, will take up the post in fall 2011. Dercon’s first exhibition at the Haus der Kunst was a surprise for the international art world: With the exhibition “Partners” (2003) works from the renowned Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation were presented to the public for the first time. Dercon continued to set a programmatical course through the means of surprise and detection: In 2004/2005 he opened the Haus der Kunst’s Historical Archives to the public; today the holdings of the archives are examined, catalogued and accessible for research purposes. His initiatives also led to the removal