Extended opening hours: Every Friday and Saturday, the special exhibition Nan Goldin. This Will Not End Well is open from 10 am to 8 pm.
Work was carried out on nearly all of the Nationalgalerie’s outdoor sculptures for the reopening. Two larger projects are introduced on the following pages. All of the other works were cleaned and some waxed; polished surfaces were refinished and varnished.
Condition before restoration: Henri Laurens, "The Autumn", 1948, bronze © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 © Archiv Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Condition after restoration: Henri Laurens, "The Autumn", 1948, bronze, Implementation: Haber & Brandner Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Hana Streicher 2021
Condition before restoration: Gerhard Marcks, "Maja", 1942, bronze © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Thomas Lucker, Berlin 2015
Condition before restoration: Gerhard Marcks, "Maja", 1942, bronze, Implementation: Gießerei Hermann Noack, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Thomas Bruns, Berlin 2021
Condition before restoration: De Fiori, "Large Striding Man", 1921, bronze © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Hana Streicher 2021
Condition after restoration: De Fiori, "Large Striding Man", 1921, bronze, Implementation: Haber & Brandner Berlin © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Hana Streicher 2021
Condition before restoration: Bernhard Heiliger, "Three Vertical Motifs", 1966/67, bronze © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Hana Streicher 2021
Condition after restoration: Bernhard Heiliger, "Three Vertical Motifs", 1966/67, bronze, Implementation: Haber & Brandner, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Hana Streicher 2021
Intermediate state: Bernhard Heiliger, "Three vertical motifs", 1966/67, bronze, detail, damaged varnish, Implementation: Haber & Brandner, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Haber & Brandner, Berlin
Intermediate state: Bernhard Heiliger, "Three vertical motifs", 1966/67, bronze, wax application, Implementation: Haber & Brandner, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Haber & Brandner, Berlin
Craning: Bernhard Heiliger, "Three vertical motifs", 1966/67, bronze, execution: Haber & Brandner, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Haber & Brandner, Berlin
Craning: Bernhard Heiliger, "Three vertical motifs", 1966/67, bronze, execution: Haber & Brandner, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Haber & Brandner, Berlin
Project management: Hana Streicher, Restoration department of the Neue Nationalgalerie
Planning / Coordination: Thomas Lucker, Restaurierung am Oberbaum
Implementation: Haber & Brandner, Berlin (Laurens und Heiliger), Gießerei Hermann Noack, Berlin (Marcks und De Fiori)
Duration: 2015 bis 2021