The largest art museum in Berlin allows to experience the full spectrum of European Art.
There are gathered here masterpieces of all great artists of the 13th to 19th
centuries. The works presented here include ones by Caravaggio, Dürer, Gossaert, Bosch,
Brueghel the Elder, Vermeer, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and many others.
At the beginning the painting gallery has been the part of Altes Museum. In 1904 received the separate building also on Museum Insel.
As the city split after the WWII also the collection did, and the main part of was taken to the Dahem Museum.
After the reunification of Germany the collection was transferred once again this time to its present place in Kulturforum, the Neubau building , finished in 1998
by the architects Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler.
Sandro Botticelli is known for numerous paintings of Madonna and Child, this time Our Lady is surrounded by angels carrying lilies symbol of purity and innocence. Tondo Madonna with Child and Singing Angels ( 1477 ).
The Dürer‘s works feature the portrait of the mayor of Nuremburg Hieronymus Holzschuher (1529) .
The Pieter Brueghel masterpiece shown in the gallery is ‘Dutch Proverbs‘ (1559) where deformed in Breughel’s manner local people play the moments dipicting over 100 popular proverbs in the scenery of Dutch countryside.
Victorious Eros (1602) by Caravaggio shows the naked boy after Vergil’s model, happily destroying all the symbols of culture and science.
The painter admired by Frederick the Great, Jean-Antoine Watteau features Love in the Italian Theatre (1714) also Love in the French Theatre and other love stories camouflaged in Baroque surroundings.
Titian is also known for its sensual art, but during his era the painting could not show just an ordinary gir but the Goddes - Venus and the Organ Player (1550–2) .
The collection gathered the painitngs dated till the end of 19th century. The younger paintings of modern artists are on exhibition in Neue Nationalgalerie on the other side of Sigismund strasse, almost opposite of Gemäldegalerie.
Gemäldegalerie
Stauffenbergstr. 40.
Phone: 20 90 55 66.
Opening hours :
10 am – 6pm ( Tue–Sun )
10 am – 10 pm ( Thu )
