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  1. Four Baroque paintings returned from the Berlin Picture Gallery (03.07.2006)

    Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned four paintings from the 18th century. The paintings were handed over to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for restoration in 1942 via an art dealer, but were not collected again despite repeated requests. From then on, they were kept in the col

  2. Deep mourning for Norbert Zimmermann (29.11.2021)

    Long-standing Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation dies at the age of 75 - Parzinger: A veteran of the SPK The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Norbert Zimmermann, is dead. He died last week in Berlin at the age of 75. Zimmermann served the f

  3. Priorities of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2023 (16.02.2023)

    Annual reception at the Pergamonmuseum - Parzinger: "We will resolve the reform backlog and enable the institutions to take on more responsibility and autonomy - but at the same time further develop the SPK foundation network. At the annual reception on Wednesday evening, the institutions of the Pru

  4. Annual press conference 2017 (08.02.2017)

    For the first time outside the Villa von der Heydt: at the 2017 annual press conference at the Altes Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. SPK President and the directors of the five institutions gave an outlook and took stock The Prussian Cultura

  5. Off to the East with laundry baskets

    02.02.2017 Off to the East with laundry baskets Article Suddenly in pole position: Dagmar Droysen-Reber on the new role of the State Institute for Music Research at the Kulturforum following the fall of the Berlin Wall. You know, on the day the Wall was opened, I’ll be perfectly honest with you, I s

  6. Lost in the war - now back in the Kunstgewerbemuseum: Permoser's ivory group "Hercules and Omphale" (31.07.2007)

    The twenty-two centimetre high group of figures "Hercules and Omphale", carved out of ivory by the Baroque sculptor Balthasar Permoser around 1700, returned to its original place in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts after decades of loss. The work had initially come to the Berlin Kunstkammer in 1

  7. Mantegna, Moholy and the Minutes (30.01.2019)

    The programme of the five institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2019: Humboldt's 250th birthday, Bauhaus anniversary and 25 years of twinning with Buenos Aires - Exhibition programme with Mantegna and Bellini, Emil Nolde and African fashion - Plus: Shepard sounds at the State

  8. Cooperation with Gerhard Richter: "Birkenau" cycle on show at the Alte Nationalgalerie - Over 100 works by the artist to be on permanent display in Berlin in future (15.03.2021)

    Gerhard Richter, one of the most influential contemporary artists, is donating an extensive collection of more than 100 works to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for the "Museum of the 20th Century" at the Kulturforum. A corresponding agreement between the GERHARD RICHTER KUNST

  9. Foundation stone laid for the Central Reading Room of the Berlin State Library (24.04.2006)

    The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and State Secretary Lütke Daldrup, who is standing in for the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee. The new bui

  10. Vice President Norbert Zimmermann retires after 27 years of service at the SPK (29.07.2011)

    Norbert Zimmermann, who has held the office of Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) since 1997, retired today. Hermann Parzinger, the President of the Foundation, honoured him with the words: "An era is coming to an end for the SPK. Norbert Zimmermann has had a decisive