Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum
The Gemäldegalerie—Berlin’s “Painting Gallery”—is where the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) keeps its core display of European paintings. It opened in 1830, but the building you pass through today was completed in 1998, anchoring the Kulturforum on the west side of Potsdamer Platz. What makes this museum historically specific is how its collection was assembled: unlike many national galleries built around old dynastic royal holdings, it was created through Prussian government acquisitions beginning in 1815, with the aim of covering the “full range” of European art. The collection is presented largely chronologically, leading from room to room in time, and it splits the flow—southern, mainly Italian art to the left, German and Flemish to the right. …
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