Die Alte Nationalgalerie geht zurück auf eine Skizze Wilhelm IV. aus dem Jahr 1841 und die Entwürfe Friedrich August Stülers, die einen aufgesockelten tempelartigen Bau mit einer monumentalen Außentreppe und einer prunkvollen inneren Treppe vorsahen. Noch im Jahr des Baubeginns 1866 übernahm Johann Heinrich Strack die Bauleitung, da Stüler in diesem Jahr verstarb. Am 21. März 1876 wurde die Nationalgalerie eröffnet. www.smb.museum The Alte Nationalgalerie was the first building on the Museum Island Berlin to be restored under the Museum Island Master-plan, with the reopening ceremony taking place after three years’ closure in 2001. Today, its collection of nineteenth-century art has been reunited for the first time in an authentic nineteenth-century building – with state-of-the-art security and climate control. A tour through the museum passes from the idealistic beginnings of Classicism and Romanticism through to the major European art movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Jugendstil. It begins on the third, the uppermost level with masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and key representatives of Romanticism and Biedermeier. On the middle floor, the tensions and oppositions in nineteenth-century art can be experienced through works of the highest quality: the “German Romans” Anselm Feuerbach and Arnold Böcklin are juxtaposed with the Dutch-schooled realism of Max Liebermann; the modern vision of Impressionism crosses paths with the backwards …
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Alte Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Montag, 06. Februar 2012Berlin, Germany – Graffiti, Currywurst and a Trip to the Zoo!
Sonntag, 01. Januar 2012Berlin is the capital of Germany and also the country’s biggest city. You’ll find some amazing nightlife, interesting graffiti, incredible historical sites, and much more there… — Music by: ANSANE – ansane.com www.facebook.com
The Building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 – Propaganda Documentary (1962)
Donnerstag, 15. September 2011thefilmarchive.org The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany. However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying that neighbouring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified. The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the “Wall of Shame”—a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt—while condemning the Wall’s restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB) that demarcated the border between East and West Germany, both borders came to symbolize the “Iron Curtain” between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. Before the Wall’s …
Arts.21 | Thomas Demand in the New National Gallery
Samstag, 02. Juli 2011Thomas Demand builds models of the scenes of political and societal events and photographs them. This has made him one of the photographers most in demand today. Now his depictions of German history can be seen in Berlin.