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Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz succeed in joint acquisition - thanks to Kulturstiftung der Länder and Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich is staying in Germany! The Klassik Stiftung We

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) today unanimously elected Prof Dr Marion Ackermann as President of the Foundation. She will head the foundation from 1 June 2025 and succeed Prof. Dr Hermann Parzinger, who has held the position since March 2008 and will retire

Edmund de Unger, whose private collection in the field of Islamic art, known internationally as the Keir Collection, achieved worldwide significance, died on 25 January 2011 in Ham near London at the age of 92. Edmund de Unger was laid to rest today in Richmond / London with great sympathy from inte

The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, which has been on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart since September 2004, will continue to be presented there in the coming years. The current loan relationship, which was agreed for seven years and would have ended in autumn 2011, will

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

Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the "Song of the Germans" 175 years ago. What is believed to be the first fair copy of the poem is housed in the Berlin State Library. In its current issue (published on 7 July), SPK Magazine asks what we are actually singing about when we think of Germany in

The eight surviving colossal figures from the workshop of the famous sculptor and architect Andreas Schlüter have returned to their original location on Schlossplatz. The sandstone figures, all on loan from the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, have been transported

The motto of this year’s edition of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Biennale is “Paradise lost? – On the threat to nature” (13.2. – 1.3.2025). As part of this festival, there are numerous events taking place both in the Philharmonie and at and in cooperation with the neighboring institutions at the Ku

From 1 April 2008, Dr Martina Rebmann will take over the management of the music department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. This decision was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage

The Renaissance painting "Mary with the Child" was consigned to Sotheby's New York for appraisal and identified by the auction house as an old collection of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. The owner, the American Bryan Horney, immediately agreed to return the painting to the Gemäldegalerie. He himself ha