Museum Berggruen
Museum Berggruen—known in German as the Berggruen Museum—centers on an act of return. Heinz Berggruen, a Berlin native who had spent six decades in exile, brought his modern-art collection back when the collection arrived in 1996. His “gesture of reconciliation” is visible in the lineup: Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse appear among the core works. Before this museum opened, Berggruen had already tried different routes for the collection. In 1988 he gave about 90 Klees to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in 1990 he agreed to a five-year loan to London’s National Gallery of 72 paintings and drawings. Negotiations for display in Madrid with the Museo Reina Sofía later fell through. After it was initially lent to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), Berggruen sold the collection to the SPK in December 2000 for a symbolic 253 million marks, far below an estimated 1.5 billion. …
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