Old National Gallery
The Alte Nationalgalerie—Berlin’s “Old National Gallery”—was built for Frederick William IV of Prussia, and it still carries the ambitions of a new kind of public museum. The project began when the National Gallery was founded in 1861, after banker Johann Heinrich Wagener donated 262 paintings by German and foreign artists, forming the core of the collection. Construction of the gallery itself ran from 1862 to 1876, commissioned by the king and executed in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles. The plans are credited to Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack, while Carl Busse carried the work forward after Stüler’s death, completing remaining details in 1865. As you pass the building’s outside stair, a memorial to Frederick William IV is integrated into the approach—linking state power directly to the museum’s purpose. …
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