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Before the Second World War, the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin owned over 400 works by the photographer Ottomar Anschütz. A large part of these are considered lost. Recently, Anschütz's great-grandson gave the museum six photographs of wolves and foxes taken in 1886. Holger Anschütz

The basic refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie has been awarded first prize by the BDA Berlin (Association of German Architects). This was announced yesterday by the BDA. The interdisciplinary jury particularly praised the "refurbishment carried out with masterful precision and an almost invisi

SPK President happy and grateful about agreement between the state of Berlin and CA Immo - Director of Hamburger Bahnhof: Great prospects for the museum of the 21st century The state of Berlin intends to acquire the Rieckhallen at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum der Gegenwart - Berlin. This is provided f

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

Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

On 14 September 2025, the Kulturforum Berlin will once again be transformed into a large event space - both indoors and outdoors. For the fourth time, the cultural and scientific institutions based there, as well as the church, are inviting the public to a festival for young and old, this year under

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

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

Yesterday's programme FAKT (ARD, 21.45 hrs) reported on allegedly new finds of human skulls from the colonial era, including in an alleged in a supposed "secret depot" of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Cultural Heritage Foundation. In 2014 and 2015, the SPK issued several press releases

The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research will enter its third year after the upcoming autumn meeting in Munich. Interested parties can apply for 2019 until 28 September 2018. The "German-American Provenance Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP)" is intended to help expand the m