Films & Videos of the Gemäldegalerie

Alone in the museum

Alone in the museum | Gemäldegalerie with Stephan Kemperdick

An exclusive guided tour through the highlights of the Gemäldegalerie with the curator Stephan Kemperdick himself? No problem!

With subtitles.

Length: 15:10 minutes
Producer: Retina Fabrik

Hingeschaut!

Hingeschaut! | The Fountain of Youth by Lucas Cranach the Elder

With subtitles.

Länge: 1:36 minutes
Picture: The Fountain of Youth by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1546) © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders
Animation: Retina Fabrik

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces)

Video series: museum professionals of the Gemäldegalerie talk about their favourite works of art.

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces) | Johannes der Täufer in der Einöde von Geertgen tot Sin Jans

With subtitles.

Length: 2:20 Minuten
Production: Retina Fabrik

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces) | Bildnis eines jungen Mannes von Georg Pencz

With subtitles.

Length: 3:20 minutes
Production: Retina Fabrik

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces) | Bildnis eines jungen Mädchens von Albrecht Dürer

With subtitles.

Length: 2:43 minutes
Production: Retina Fabrik

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces) | Der Heilige Hieronymus von Jacopo Bellini

With subtitles.

Length: 2:54 minutes
Production: Retina Fabrik

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces) | Die Heilige Maria Magdalena (Mansi-Meister)

With subtitles.

Length: 1:47 minutes
Production: Retina Fabrik

Lieblingsstücke (Favourite Pieces) | Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze von Hans Holbein d. J.

With subtitles.

Length: 2:20 minutes
Production: Retina Fabrik

3 Perspectives on 1 Piece

In our series 3 and More Perspectives on a Piece, we elucidate selected works from very different points of view.

Object: The Glass of Wine by Jan Vermeer van Delft is one of the most popular works at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. Musical instruments are frequently found in Vermeer’s paintings. Berlin musician Gaby Bultmann shows viewers which instruments were played in Vermeer’s time and what they sounded like.

3 Perspectives on 1 Piece | Vermeer: The Glass of Wine | Katja Kleinert | Part 1

Length: 1:20 Minutes

3 Perspectives on 1 Piece | Vermeer: The Glass of Wine | Gaby Bultmann | Part 2

Length: 1:18 minutes

3 Perspectives on 1 Piece | Vermeer: The Glass of Wine | Gaby Bultmann | Part 3

Length: 1:19 minutes


Exhibitions

Donatello. Inventor of the Renaissance

Donatello was one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance. His works are characterised by technical innovations and revolutionised the artistic practice of their time. As part of a one-off collaboration between the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello in Florence, this is the first exhibition to be held in Germany focussing on Donatello. Across some 90 works, many of them key works in his oeuvre that have never before been shown together, a panorama emerges that sparks the realisation that the story of Donatello is also the story of the Renaissance. 

Video: Polyform

Late Gothic. The Birth of Modernity

Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie is holding the first ever comprehensive exhibition in the German-speaking world on late Gothic art. Featuring some 130 objects – including impressive loans and key works from the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – the show will juxtapose various artistic genres and media, revealing the full breadth of the media innovations of the 15th century and the art of the late Gothic era.

Length: 0:45 minutes
Production: Art/Beats

Late Gothic | #1 Graphic - grab your motif

Video: Art/Beats
Length: 6:04 minutes

Late Gothic | #2 Sculpture - your motif becomes spatial

Video: Art/Beats
Length: 8:17 minutes

Late Gothic | #3 Arts and Crafts - Your Motif in Silver

Video: Art/Beats
Length: 10:19 minutes

Late Gothic | #4 Painting - your motif in colour

Video: Art/Beats
Length: 6:29 minutes

Renaissance Faces. Masterpieces of Italian Portraiture: The Gemäldegalerie and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have undertaken a landmark project tracing the development of the Italian portrait in the fifteenth century. In Berlin the event takes place in the beautifully restored Bode-Museum, it is subsequently on view at the Metropolitan Museum. The show is placed under the auspices of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

 

The Renaissance is getting in shape | Renaissance Faces

Length: 0:54 minutes

The Renaissance is sensual | Faces of the Renaissance

Length: 1:06 minutes

The Renaissance is precious | Faces of the Renaissance

Sebastian Mainardi: Profilbild einer jungen Ehefrau

Length: 1:05 minutes

The Renaissance is heavy | Faces of the Renaissance

Mino de Fiesole: Büste des Niccolò Strozzi

Length: 1:06 minutes

The Renaissance is mysterious | Faces of the Renaissance

Length: 1:05 minutes

The Renaissance is modern | Faces of the Renaissance

Luca Signorelli: Bildnis eines älteren Mannes

Length: 0:58 minutes

Wolfgang Joop on nobility and drawn up shoulders

Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere: Bildnis einer jungen Frau, around 1490
Wolfgang Joop, Fashion Designer

Length: 2:13 minutes

Style advice from Udo Walz

Mino da Fiesole: Büste des Niccolò Strozzi, around 1454
Udo Walz, coiffeur

Length: 0:52 minutes

Gesichter der Renaissance | Udo Walz styles a Young Woman

Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere: Bildnis einer jungen Frau, around 1490
Udo Walz, Coiffeur

Length: 1:06 minutes

Wolfgang Joops goes a-wooning

Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere: Bildnis einer jungen Frau, around 1490
Wolfgang Joop, Fashion designer

Length: 1:26 minutes

Gesichter der Renaissance | Wolfgang Joop on wordly misdeeds

Andrea Mantegna: Kardinal Ludovico Trevisano, 1459
Wolfgang Joop, Fashion designer

Length: 1:24 minutes

André Rival on distortion, wide angle and perspective(EN)

Luca Signorelli: Bildnis eines älteren Mannes, around 1475
André Rival, Photographer

Length: 1:41 minutes

Udo Walz sees a talented hair stylist in Simonetta

Sandro Botticelli: Weibliches Profilbildnis, around 1476
Udo Walz, Coiffeur

Length: 0:57 minutes

Gesichter der Renaissance | André Rival on naked people and decisive glances

Raffaelino del Garbo: Bildnis eines jungen Mannes
André Rival, Photographer

Length: 1:45 Minutes


Behind the Scenes

Backstories | Leda

Length: 4:37 minutes

Bastianino: The Living Cross of Ferrara The Restoration of a Forgotten Altarpiece

Sebastiano Filippi (called Bastianino) created the unusual large-format painting The Living Cross around 1565–70 for the Santa Catarina Martire monastery and church in the Italian city of Ferrara. Thanks to extensive restoration work, the altarpiece is once more on display to the public for the first time in over 100 years in a focused special exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie. It is one of just two works by the painter held in Germany.

Length: 5:42 minutes

About the connection between sculpture and paintings

Michael Eisenhauer on the connection between the Gemäldegalerie and the Bode-Museum.

Length: 3:50 minutes
Production: retinaFabrik


Portrait of the Gemäldegalerie

The Gemäldegalerie boasts one of the world’s most important collections of European painting ranging from the 13th to 18th century. 

Length: 3:10 minutes
Music
Titel: 
Circles
Künstler: Robert Bruce