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Akademievortragsreihe: Von Angesicht zu Angesicht – Eine Geschichte der Porträtmalerei

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Academy Lecture Series: Face to Face – A History of Portrait Painting

About the special exhibition “Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka” (October 16, 2026, through March 14, 2027)

Sofonisba Anguissola, Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola, Detail, 1557 | Eugen Spiro, Die Gattin des Künstlers, 1929

Sofonisba Anguissola, Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola, Detail, 1557 | Eugen Spiro, Die Gattin des Künstlers, 1929

Lecture Series V 1: Tue / 3:00–4:00 p.m. / Sept. 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 2026

Accompanying the special exhibition “Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka” (Oct. 16, 2026, through March 14, 2027)

In no other genre of painting have artists—from the Renaissance to the present—adhered so closely to tradition as in portraiture. Portraits were mostly commissioned works, and so, well into the age of photography, the focus remained on the recognizability of the subjects.
This lecture series presents individual, double, family, group, and children’s portraits, as well as self-portraits, spanning 500 years of portrait painting. In addition to the stylistic characteristics of each era, the lectures will explore symbolic features and compositional similarities.

Speaker: Thomas R. Hoffmann

Meeting place: Lecture Hall, Kulturforum
Participation fee: €32
Limited number of participants.
Online booking recommended.

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Gemäldegalerie, Kulturforum Berlin

Wed / 2:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m. / Oct. 21, 2026
Thu / 10:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m. / Oct. 22, 2026

Meeting point: Gemäldegalerie (Kulturforum Berlin)
Participation fee: 6 € plus admission
Limited number of participants.

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Tickets for events organized by the Academy of the Berlin State Museums will be available online and at the museums’ ticket offices starting August 11, 2026.

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Meeting point: Vortragssaal Kulturforum

Price: €32.00

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