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  1. "A day in the countryside" - summer festival at the Berlin Kulturforum as the finale of the cultural summer festival (29.08.2023)

    For the second time, a "Day in the Green" will take place on 3 September at Berlin's Kulturforum and celebrate the finale of the Cultural Summer Festival. Together with the St. Matthew Foundation, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Gemäldeg

  2. Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear Pietzsches! (02.12.2016)

    Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch have been collecting great art for fifty years. Now, they are donating to the City of Berlin approximately 150 works by artists of the modern period, such as Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The pictures will be permanently displayed at the new mus

  3. Statement on the criticism of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation plans (04.07.2012)

    Hermann Parzinger firmly rejects the criticism levelled in recent days at the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and the Nationalgalerie, which have been described as a "castling". The following points explain the reasons for the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and construct a new building, a

  4. International conference on Nazi-looted art (11.12.2008)

    To mark the tenth anniversary of the "Principles of the Washington Conference with Respect to Nazi-Confiscated Art", the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste are organising an international symposium today and tomorrow entitled "Taking Responsibility.

  5. Nazi-Looted Art: Nursing Madonna Statuette Restituted (24.01.2023)

    The SPK has returned a 16th-century sculpture of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt. On January 20, the SPK returned a 16th-century statuette of a nursing Madonna to the heirs of the Jewish banker and businessman Jakob Goldschmidt. The work was acquired in 193

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation becomes a full member (06.07.2011)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has been elected a full member of the German Research Foundation (DFG). This was decided today at the DFG's General Assembly in Bonn. For Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, this decision is a great success and a

  7. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz mourns the death of Egidio Marzona (16.03.2026)

    The Italian art collector and patron Egidio Marzona (born 1944 in Bielefeld) passed away on 15 March 2026 surrounded by his family and friends in Berlin. This was announced by his family today. For more than 50 years, Marzona amassed one of the most extensive collections of 20th century art. Parts o

  8. Works of "Degenerate Art" believed lost recovered from Berlin bomb rubble (08.11.2010)

    During excavations in the historic centre of Berlin, archaeologists from the state of Berlin have found eleven sculptures that were confiscated from German museums in 1937 as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. They are bronzes by Edwin Scharff, Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Gustav Hei

  9. Results of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa published (18.01.2023)

    Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis

  10. SPK today handed over a statue from the Alte Nationalgalerie to the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris (16.12.2024)

    The life-size figure "Le Drame Lyrique", also known as the "Violinist", once adorned the foyer of the Opéra Comique. Until 1932, the work by French sculptor Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was displayed in the foyer of the third oldest theatre institution in Paris. After being transferred to the Mus