The Berlinische Galerie is one of the newest museums in the German capital and collects art from Berlin dating from 1870 to the present day – with both a local and international focus.
Berlinische Galerie
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Presentation of the collection, 2011 – Berlin Art during National Socialism. ©Photo Michael Schäfer
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Otto Borutta (Photographer): Apartment House Gropius, Hansaviertel, Berlin 1957.
©Berlinische Galerie
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Otto Bartning, Model Sternkirche, 1922. ©Ilona Ripke/Berlinische Galerie
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Dieter Urbach: Photo collage Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic, ca. 1967. ©Berlinische Galerie
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Norman Foster: Model of the realization competition of the reconstruction oft he Reichstag building to the German federal parliament the Bundestag, 1992
Photographer unknown. ©Berlinische Galerie
Collection
Some 300,000 drawings, 80,000 photographs, 4,000 designs for stained glass and mosaics, 2,500 models and about 800 running metres of files from posthumous papers, competitions and archives – that is the handsome tally of objects in our Architecture collection. These copious holdings are a chronicle of Berlin not only as it has been built, but also as it was never built – ideas and visions for how the city might have been. The projects and records relating to architecture and urban design in Berlin date from the years between 1900 and the present. Over this period the city has been constantly reinvented: Historicism under the Kaiser, Neues Bauen in the Weimar Republic, structural megalomania under the Nazis, reconstruction in a divided city during the Cold War and the “New Berlin” that followed German unification.Other Members:
