Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection

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Eastern Stüler building , since 2008 the seat of the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is an art museum in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg . Since July 2008 it has been showing art from French Romanticism to Surrealism . The collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures owned by the “Dieter Scharf Collection in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg” is initially on loan for ten years in the former premises of the Egyptian Museum and belongs to the National Gallery in Berlin .

In 2019 the museum had around 49,000 visitors.

Foundation, endowment

The museum shows works from the “Dieter Scharf Collection Foundation in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg”. Otto Gerstenberg was one of the most important art collectors in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century. His collection was partially destroyed in the war. Other parts of the collection are in Russian museums as so-called ' looted art '. Of the works of art that remained in the family's possession, his grandson Dieter Scharf (1926–2001) inherited a collection of graphics that formed the basis for his own collecting. Shortly before his death, Scharf converted this collection, which had already been shown in Berlin in 2000 under the title “Surreal Worlds”, into a foundation. Initially, a ten-year long-term loan agreement was agreed between the foundation and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin . The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provides the “Dieter Scharf Collection in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg Foundation” with the eastern Stüler building in Charlottenburg.

building

Eastern Stüler building, Scharf-Gerstenberg collection
The temple gate of Kalabsha

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is located at Schloßstraße 70 opposite today's Berggruen Museum (western Stüler building). Both buildings are separated from Charlottenburg Palace by Spandauer Damm . They go back to designs by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Which were implemented by the architect Friedrich August Stüler in the years 1851–1859 . Both Stüler buildings originally served as officers' barracks for the Garde du Corps regiment. The former Marstall building, built by Karl Wilhelm Drewitz in 1855–1858, joins the eastern Stüler building. From 1967 to 2005 the eastern Stüler building together with the Marstall building served as the Egyptian Museum . The buildings were converted from 2005 to 2008 for future use as the Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum under the direction of the architect Gregor Sunder-Plassmann for ten million euros.

The collection

The works of the “Dieter Scharf Foundation in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg”, which Dieter Scharf inherited from his grandfather's collection, include graphics by Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Francisco de Goya , Charles Meryon , Victor Hugo , Édouard Manet and Max Klinger . For Dieter Scharf, the work of these artists formed the basis for building a collection of symbolism and surrealism .

In addition to paintings by Salvador Dalí , Jean Dubuffet , Max Ernst , René Magritte , André Masson , Gustave Moreau , Odilon Redon , Henri Rousseau and Yves Tanguy , as well as sculptures by Max Ernst, Jacques Lipchitz , Henri Laurens and Antoni Tàpies , the focus of the Scharf Collection lies as in the example of Otto Gerstenberg, on graphic work. The other artists in the collection include Gerhard Altenbourg , Willi Baumeister , Hans Bellmer , Victor Brauner , Paul Éluard , James Ensor , Alberto Giacometti , George Grosz , Horst Janssen , Paul Klee , Fernand Léger , Joan Miró , Edvard Munch , Richard Oelze , Francis Picabia , Pablo Picasso , Kurt Schwitters , Georges Seurat , Mark Tobey and Wols .

Thematically, the Scharf-Gerstenberg collection follows on from the “Picasso and His Time” collection in the Berggruen Museum opposite , with individual artists such as Picasso, Klee and Giacometti being represented in both collections. Until the completion of the fourth exhibition wing of the Pergamon Museum, the Kalabsha Gate and the columns of the ancient Sahuré Temple from the collection of the Egyptian Museum can also be seen in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum .

literature

  • Karin Schick, Ulrich Luckhardt: Surreal Worlds: Dieter Scharf Collection Foundation in memory of Otto Gerstenberg. Milan 2000, ISBN 88-8118-696-9 .
  • Melanie Franke, Silke Krohn, Dieter Scholz (eds.): Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg in Berlin. Prestel, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-7913-4029-8 .
  • Melanie Franke, Dieter Scholz (ed.): Surreal Worlds: Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg. Nicolai, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89479-499-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 2004, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation signed a contract to integrate the high-ranking Scharf-Gerstenberg Surrealism Collection into the National Gallery's collection. ( Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ( Memento from April 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ↑ Berlin State Museums counted more than 4 million visitors in 2019. January 31, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '8.9 "  N , 13 ° 17' 48"  E