Video series: museum professionals of the Gemäldegalerie talk about their favourite works of art.
With subtitles.
Length: 2:20 Minuten
Production: Retina Fabrik
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: 1:20 Minutes
Length: 1:19 minutes
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.
Further information: www.spaetgotik.berlin
Length: 0:45 minutes
Production: Art/Beats
Video: Art/Beats
Length: 6:04 minutes
Video: Art/Beats
Length: 8:17 minutes
Video: Art/Beats
Length: 10:19 minutes
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.
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