Gallery of Romantic Art

On 19.02.2001 the Gallery of Romantic Art has been closed. From 3.12.2001 all the collection will be reunited with the collection of the Old National Gallery and the works are shown on Museum Island.

The collection

The twenty-four paintings by Caspar David Friedrich at the heart of this collection constitute the largest number of works by him to be united under one roof. They stem from all phases of his development and provide an excellent insight into the life-work of the foremost representative of German Romantic art. The C. D. Friedrich collection is harmoniously complemented by fifteen of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's paintings: imaginative landscapes and architectural visions.

Carl Blechen's idiosyncratic paintings form a third area of emphasis. His characteristic use of brilliant colours and unconventional motifs was far ahead of his time. In addition the Gallery of Romantic Art also owns portraits by Philipp Otto Runge and Gottlieb Schick, landscapes by Joseph Anton Koch and Carl Rottmann and major works by the "Nazarener" who were active in Rome. Paintings of the Biedemeier period are situated to the west of the entrance hall. They include views of Berlin by Eduard Gaertner and Johann Erdmann Hummel, landscapes, genre paintings and portraits from Carl Spitzweg to Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.