Museum Berggruen

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The Museum Berggruen, opposite to Charlottenburg Palace, complements the collection of modern art held at the Neue Nationalgalerie with its singular works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, and Alberto Giacometti. Deshalb behalten wir uns vor, jegliche anstößigen, abfälligen oder verleumderischen Anmerkungen, sowie alle Spam-Nachrichten zu entfernen. Link zu unserer Netiquette: www.smb.mu

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It’s time to go Down Under! 🇦🇺
We’re thrilled to announce that our upcoming exhibition, „Cézanne to Giacometti: Highligh...
02/05/2025

It’s time to go Down Under! 🇦🇺

We’re thrilled to announce that our upcoming exhibition, „Cézanne to Giacometti: Highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie,“ will mark the first time works from our collection are showcased in Australia.

They will be exhibited alongside works by Australian artists – another first! The exhibition will take you on a journey through the vibrant transformations of European and Australian art throughout the twentieth century.

If you get the chance, don’t miss the opportunity to experience the beauty, innovation, and creativity of these legendary artists united in this constellation. 🖼️✨

Opening 31 May 2025 at in Canberra.

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Work on Poster: Henri Matisse, Vegetal Elements, 1947, Museum Berggruen

What looks like the Easter Bunny’s carrot is actually part of Paul Klee’s curious world—where fruits float, spin, and da...
20/04/2025

What looks like the Easter Bunny’s carrot is actually part of Paul Klee’s curious world—where fruits float, spin, and dance with life. A reminder that even nature’s smallest forms can spark wonder.🎨🌸
Happy Easter! 🐣
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Paul Klee, Flower and Fruit, 1927
 

Matisse didn’t draw — he cut through silence with ink. Black as light, windows wide open, figures fading into feeling. 🖤...
11/04/2025

Matisse didn’t draw — he cut through silence with ink. Black as light, windows wide open, figures fading into feeling. 🖤🪞

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Henri Matisse, The Inhabited Silence of the Houses, 1947

Have you heard how Pablo Picasso’s “The Yellow Sweater” was recovered after being stolen from Paul Rosenberg by the N***...
09/04/2025

Have you heard how Pablo Picasso’s “The Yellow Sweater” was recovered after being stolen from Paul Rosenberg by the N***s?

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Pablo Picasso, The Yellow Sweater, 1939 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

The Harlequin - Picasso’s playful yet complex figure - danced through his art in the various creative phases. A trickste...
01/04/2025

The Harlequin - Picasso’s playful yet complex figure - danced through his art in the various creative phases. A trickster, an entertainer, a mirror of the artist himself. On this day of fools and jokes, let’s embrace the spirit of the Harlequin - bold, mischievous, and always one step ahead. 🃏🎨

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Pablo Picasso, Harlequin with Guitar, 1918 ©Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Gabriel Montua chose his favorite work in our collection. Have a look at what he picked and why!  // Portrait of Gabriel...
28/03/2025

Gabriel Montua chose his favorite work in our collection. Have a look at what he picked and why!


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Portrait of Gabriel Montua, privat
Paul Klee, Harlequin on the Bridge, 1920

Spring has arrived! We celebrate it with Matisse’s poetic blend of color, form, and nature. 🌿 We hope that you, too, wil...
20/03/2025

Spring has arrived! We celebrate it with Matisse’s poetic blend of color, form, and nature. 🌿 We hope that you, too, will soon be surrounded by beautiful blossoming flowers, like the head in his poster for an exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1953. 🌸✨

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Henri Matisse, Poster Design for an Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London (1953), 1952

Picasso’s “Head of a woman” from 1909 isn’t just a portrait of his then partner Fernande Olivier — it’s a masterclass in...
14/03/2025

Picasso’s “Head of a woman” from 1909 isn’t just a portrait of his then partner Fernande Olivier — it’s a masterclass in abstraction, rendering the human face in bold geometric shapes and curving volumes. Here, form conveys the energy emanating from this head more than the precise identity of the sitter, as did classical sculpture. With its sharp lines and dynamic structure, the piece dares us to look deeper and question what we really see. How does abstraction change how we view the familiar? 🤔✨

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Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Museum Berggruen‘s work “Seated N**e Drying her Foot” from 1921 by Pablo Picasso is currently on view at the exhibition ...
06/03/2025

Museum Berggruen‘s work “Seated N**e Drying her Foot” from 1921 by Pablo Picasso is currently on view at the exhibition “‘Degenerate’ art: Modern art on trial under the N***s“ that just opened . The exhibition is on view from February 18 to May 25, 2025.

While the work was not on display in the infamous 1937 Munich exhibition with the same title, it served as an illustration in the 1928 book “Art and Race” by N**i art theorist Paul Schultze-Naumburg which served as a blueprint for that exhibition. In it, he confronted Modernist depictions of the human body with photographs from a medical collection representing patients affected by various illnesses. In our case, he compared the hands and feet Picasso purposely drew oversize with a patient suffering from acromegaly, a disorder that results in excess growth of certain parts of the human body. The book’s message: artists who created works that resembled people affected with illness were sick themselves and their works not healthy for society. The artists thus targeted living under N**i reign were not allowed to exhibit or teach at art schools, many fled and some were killed, while their works were confiscated, sold or destroyed. It is a dark chapter of art and history, and the exhibition reveals the tragic background while showing the beauty of many of these works unjustly vilified and persecuted.

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Exhibition views, ‘Degenerate’ art: Modern art on trial under the N***s, Museé Picasso Paris
Pablo Picasso, Seated N**e Drying her Foot, 1921 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

‘Have you heard?’ 📣 What secret is hidden in this artwork by Paul Cézanne? // Paul Cèzanne, Young Woman with Her Hair Un...
04/03/2025

‘Have you heard?’ 📣
 
What secret is hidden in this artwork by Paul Cézanne?
 
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Paul Cèzanne, Young Woman with Her Hair Unfastened, circa 1873/74
 

Now that the exhibition has closed, we’re excited to share one final exhibition view of the collection of Museum Bergrue...
20/02/2025

Now that the exhibition has closed, we’re excited to share one final exhibition view of the collection of Museum Bergruen at the Musée de l’Orangerie. The exhibition featured masterpieces by Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Giacometti, shaped by Heinz Berggruen’s personal taste and artistic encounters.🎨🌟

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Photos: Musée de l’Orangerie / Sophie Crépy
Henri Matisse, The Blue Portfolio, 1945
Pablo Picasso, Women Combing her Hair, 1906 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Pablo Picasso, Study of Head for “N**e for Drapery”, 1907 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Pablo Picasso, Still Life on a Piano, 1911-12 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Alberto Giacometti, The Cat, 1951 © Succession Alberto Giacometti / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Alberto Giacometti, Tall N**e Standing III, 1960 © Succession Alberto Giacometti / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

In honor of the birthday of Henri Laurens (1885-1954), we are featuring the sculpture “Little Pregnant Woman” from 1932 ...
18/02/2025

In honor of the birthday of Henri Laurens (1885-1954), we are featuring the sculpture “Little Pregnant Woman” from 1932 from our collection, which is a rare representation of motherhood in modern European sculpture.

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Foto von Henri Laurens: © bpk / CNAC-MNAM / Denise Colomb
Henri Laurens, Small Woman Pregnant, 1932

.b.bernardi chose her favorite work in our collection. Have a look at what she picked and why! // Portrait of Claire Ber...
17/02/2025

.b.bernardi chose her favorite work in our collection. Have a look at what she picked and why!

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Portrait of Claire Bernardi, © Sophie Crépy / Musée de l’Orangerie
Pablo Picasso, Sailor Rolling a Cigarette, 1917 © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Two faces, one form—Above and Below captures the dance of duality and union. 💙💗 The string of beads binds them together—...
14/02/2025

Two faces, one form—Above and Below captures the dance of duality and union. 💙💗 The string of beads binds them together—separate yet inseparable. This Valentine’s Day, celebrate the beauty of connection, transformation, and the fusion of souls.

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Paul Klee, Above and Below, 1932

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Das Museum Berggruen ergänzt auf das Sinnfälligste die Sammlungen Klassischer Moderne der Neuen Nationalgalerie, vor allem mit seinen einzigartigen Werken von Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse und Alberto Giacometti. Es ist ebenso wie die gegenüberliegende Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg privater Sammelleidenschaft zu verdanken. Beide Ausstellungsorte der Nationalgalerie, der überdies die Häuser Alte Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin und Friedrichswerdersche Kirche angehören, sind in Charlottenburg zu finden.

Die Gebäude des Museum Berggruen und der Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg entstanden 1851 bis 1859 im Auftrag Friedrich Wilhelms IV. Ihr Architekt Friedrich August Stüler entwarf später auch die Alte Nationalgalerie. Städtebaulich nehmen die klassizistischen Zwillingsbauten mit ihren Kuppeln Bezug auf das gegenüberliegende Schloss Charlottenburg und bilden den Auftakt zur Schloßstraße.

Die Funktion beider Häuser war gleichermaßen praktisch wie ästhetisch: Sie nahmen die Offizierkasernen der Gardes du Corps auf und lenkten gleichzeitig den Blick von den nahen Stallgebäuden ab. 1929 zog die "Polizeischule Charlottenburg" in den westlichen Stülerbau, in das benachbarte Kommandantenhaus am Spandauer Damm 17 und in das Mannschaftsgebäude an der Schloßstraße 1a (dem heutigen Bröhan-Museum). 1937 wurde die Polizeischule zur "Führerschule der Sicherheitspolizei". Im Zweiten Weltkrieg stark beschädigt, wurden beide Stülerbauten bis 1958 wiederhergestellt. Zwei Jahre später zog die Antikensammlung in das westliche der Häuser ein.

Als nach dem Mauerfall die Antikensammlung auf die Museumsinsel Berlin zurückkehren sollte, bot der damalige Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Wolf-Dieter Dube, dem Galeristen und Privatsammler Heinz Berggruen das Gebäude als Ausstellungsort für seine Kollektion an, die dieser den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin 1995 als Leihgabe für zehn Jahre überließ. Die hierfür notwendigen Umbauten führte das Architekturbüro Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht aus. Die Sammlung Berggruen, seit 2004 Museum Berggruen, entwickelte sich nach ihrer Eröffnung im September 1996 rasch zum Publikumsmagneten. 2000 konnte die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz mit Mitteln des Bundes und des Landes Berlin die Sammlung für die Nationalgalerie erwerben.