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The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) mourn the loss of the great fashion designer Uli Richter, who died yesterday at the age of 94. SPK President Hermann Parzinger praised his qualities: "Uli R

Collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch has died at the age of 91 - Parzinger: A great friend of the Nationalgalerie and pioneer of the museum for the 20th century Heiner Pietzsch, the well-known Berlin entrepreneur and great patron of the arts, is dead. He died on Tuesday evening in a Berlin clinic at

To mark his 70th birthday, Friedrich Christian Flick has donated 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This is the second donation in just a few years. Flick had already donated 166 works to the museum in 2008. In addition to the d

Great collector passes away at the age of 99 - Parzinger: A man of the century - Eissenhauer and Haak: A major influence on the reconstruction of the Nationalgalerie's collection - Knapstein and Jäger: We lose a great friend of art The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums i

The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial

A few days ago, the gouache "Ash Wednesday Morning" by Adolph von Menzel was returned to Berlin. The work had been considered lost since the Second World War. A few years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation became aware of its whereabouts in the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius. In the co

Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle to launch the rediscovery of the Bauhäusler in spring 2022 - Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Culture Robra hands over funding decisio

The collection of the Berlin publisher and patron of the arts Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920) comprised thousands of paintings, sculptures, artefacts, books and antiques. Almost one hundred years after the death of the Jewish art collector, more is now known about them than ever before and they have been p

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

A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restituted a drawing by the Romantic artist Carl Philipp Fohr from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heirs of its former owner Karl Mayer. The provenance of the work had been clarified during research as part of the provenance research project o