Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, or Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, draws its identity from a wartime story as much as from its art. Founded in 2008, this museum presents paintings, graphics, and sculptures spanning French Romanticism to Surrealism. The works ultimately trace back to Otto Gerstenberg, an early 20th-century Berlin art collector whose collection was partly destroyed and partly seized as plunder during the Second World War, with parts reaching Russian museums. After his death in 1935, his paintings passed to his daughter, Margarete Scharf, who stored much of them in the Nationalgalerie bunker; some were later taken to the Soviet Union, while some were lost in an air raid fire. Today, the collection is housed in former rooms of the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg under a ten-year loan agreement. …

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