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Gemäldegalerie

Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum

Berlin's Gemäldegalerie ("Painting Gallery"), also known as the Old Masters Museums, shows one of the world's most impressive collections of European paintings.

Gemäldegalerie

The collection features an astonishing range of artworky from the 13th to the 18th century by the great European masters, including Botticelli, Dürer, Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian. For Rembrandt fans this is the world’s largest collection with over 16 of his paintings. In the daunting new Kulturforum near Potsdamer Platz over 3,000 works of art are exhibited chronologically in over 53 Halls through separate epochs, art genres and schools in the daunting new Kulturforum near Potsdamer Platz designed in 1997, encompassing 7,000 sq m of exhibition space. Over 900 masterpieces can be seen in the Main Gallery collection.

For orientation, the tour can start to the right of the entrance rotunda on the main floor with galleries I to 4 of German painting from the 13th to 16th centuries. Dutch Masters in the adjacent rooms include ‘The Netherlandish Proverbs’ by Peter Bruegel. The Rembrandts can be seen in gallery 10 and further on are Titian’s and Raphel’s Madonnas.

Gainsborough and Reynolds as well as Goya and Velasquez are divided between the Great Hall (Hauptgalerie) and the Study Gallery. Highlights include Caravaggio’s Amor Victorius (1602) and Rubens’ Perseus Liberating Andromeda (1622). Excellent audio guides in English are available included in the admission price.

Gemäldegalerie: Current exhibitions and tickets

Zoom on van Eyck

No other painter in the history of European art was able to convey the details of the visible world with the same level of brilliance and precision as the founder of early Netherlandish painting, Jan van Eyck. more

Frans Hals

In 2024, Berlin celebrates one of the greatest portrait painters of all time: Alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals is one of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. more

Paintings from the 13th to 18th century

The Gemäldegalerie possesses one of the world's finest collections of European art from the 13th to 18th century. After the collection was founded in 1830, it was systematically built up and perfected. The exhibition includes masterpieces by artists from... more

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Address
Stauffenbergstraße 40
10785 Berlin
Phone
+49 30 266424242
Internet
www.smb.museum
Opening Hours
Mon closed. Tue-Fri 10-18, Thu 10-20, Sat+Sun 10-18
Admission Fee
14,- Euro, red. 7,- Euro
Tickets
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Source: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bearbeitung: berlin.de

Last edited: 16 January 2023