Currently open are selected venues on the Museumsinsel Berlin and at the Kulturforum, as well as the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. More information and online tickets
Currently open are selected venues on the Museumsinsel Berlin and at the Kulturforum, as well as the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. More information and online tickets
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.
Length: 1:19 minutes
Video series: museum professionals of the Gemäldegalerie talk about their favourite works of art.
With subtitles.
Length: 2:20 Minuten
Production: Retina Fabrik
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.
Length: 4:37 minutes
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
Michael Eisenhauer on the connection between the Gemäldegalerie and the Bode-Museum.
Length: 3:50 minutes
Production: retinaFabrik
