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Berlin Art Tour

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Berlin Art  Sample Tour

4 Nights

DAY 1
Arrive in Berlin by your chosen mode of transport. You'll have time to settle in and explore the city before your evening meal.

Day 2
Today you'll start with a visit to the Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum of Contemporary Art) to see the works of Warhol and many others from the Marx Collection. Following lunch you'll head to the Neue National Gallery, the home of works by some of the greatest 20th Century artists, including Klee, Munch, Dix plus German expressionists and surrealists such as Max Beckmann and Otto Mueller. All galleried out? Then the rest of the day can be spent being a tourist! Evening meal in your accommodation.

Day 3
After breakfast the group will depart for the Brucke Museum. Formed at the beginning of the 20th
century, the "Brucke" movement was to have a dramatic impact on the 20th century art world. After
lunch you'll visit the inspirational Bauhaus Museum, one of the world's most important schools of Art & Design.

Day 4
Today you'll spend the morning in the Alte National Gallery, home to one of the largest collections of 19th century art in Germany, including the works of Overbeck, Veit, Schadow and Begas and others. In the afternoon you'll finish the tour with a visit to one of the World's most prestigious Archeological Museums, The Pergamon, which features the amazing frieze of the Pergamon Altar.

Day 5
After breakfast you'll have some free time for last minute photo shoots and shopping before departing for the UK.

Visits can be made to:

Brohan Museum
This museum bears the name of its founder Karl H. Brohan who donated his private collection to the city of Berlin on his 60th birthday. It specialises in Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism (1889-1939). The collection has two areas of primary interest: decorative arts and painting. It also houses a collection of porcelain as well as pieces of metal work. The maximum group size is 20.

Guggenheim Berlin
The museum's unusual name derives from its initiators - Deutsche bank and the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation. It is located on the ground floor of the Deutsche bank premises. It hosts three to four important exhibitions each year, many of which showcase a work specially commissioned by an artist. The maximum group size is 30.

Frierichswerdersche Kirche
This church currently houses the Schinkel-Museum which is a collection of the artist/architect's sculptures. The building was destroyed in World War II, but was successfully restored to its original neo-gothic style, and reopened in 1987.

Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum of Contemporary Art)
This museum, housed in a former railway station, has various temporary exhibits and retrospectives while the permanent exhibition comes from the Marx Collection. This includes works by Andy Warhol and many others. The museum also has a very good bookshop. It is also worth visiting this attraction in the evening, when the building is lit up, by a light installation designed by Dan Flavin.

Museum Of Applied Art
This museum has an admirable collection of porcelain, glass, gold and Berlin Iron.

Museum of Prints and Drawings
The Museum of Prints and Drawings possesses one of the largest collections of its kind. It is recognised as one of the world's finest collections of graphic art with 110,000 drawings and about 550,000 prints, including works by great artists ranging from Botticelli and Dürer to Picasso and Beuys.

The Alte National Gallery
The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) owns one of the largest collections of 19th century sculptures and paintings in Germany. Nineteenth century art is represented by the works of German artists who lived for a year or even decades in Rome (Nazarener): Peter Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck, Philipp Schadow and Wilhelm Veit were commissioned to paint frescoes on the story of Joseph for the "Casa Bartholdy" in Rome. There are also numerous Impressionist paintings of very high quality. Nineteenth century sculptures are currently on show in the Altes Museum. They include the famous marble sculpture of the two Prussian princesses by Johann Gottfried Schadow and works by Berthel Thorwaldsen, Ridolfo Schadow, Reinhold Begas and Adolf von Hildebrand.

The Neue National Gallery
The New National Gallery, the "temple of light and glass" is the home of 20th century European painting and sculpture ranging from classic modern art to art of the 1960s. The collection includes works by Munch, Kirchner, Picasso, Klee, Feininger, Dix and Kokoschka.

Vitra Design Museum
This museum is housed in an impressive historical monument of industrial architecture. At this site, the museum displays a wide programme of international travelling exhibitions. Topics range from historical to contemporary developments in industrial furniture design and related fields, exploring the relationships between design and architecture, the fine arts, society and different cultures. There are also rotating exhibtions on design and architecture, including a 20s industrial building.

Brucke Museum
The museum is devoted exclusively to the group of artists called "Brucke". The group was founded in 1905 in Dresden by four students: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel. It is the oldest of the German groups of artists to have a decisive impact on the development of 20th century art. Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde joined in 1906 and Otto Mueller in 1910. The "Brucke"?s pictorial language and its critical attitude towards traditional academic painting fostered the movement, later called Expressionism. . The Brucke-Museum in Berlin, whose collection is entirely devoted to the works of the "Brucke" artists, demonstrates the birth of modernism in a unique way.

Kathe-Kollwitz
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum, which opened in 1986, presents the work of Käthe Kollwitz on four stories. Käthe Kollwitz was born in Königsberg in 1867 and died in Moritzburg near Dresden in 1945 after living and working in Berlin for more than 50 years.

Pergamon Museum
One of the worlds largest achaelogical museums the Pergamon should not be missed. One of the museum's highlights is the stunning original frieze of the Pergamon Altar depicting the epic battle between the gods and giants, which is one of the greatest artistic legacies of classical antiquity.

Bauhaus Museum
Bauhaus is one of the most important schools of architecture, design and art of the 20th century, and its products have maintained their influence on design up to the present day. Housed in a building designed by this movement's founder, the museum traces its history and also boasts the most complete Bauhaus collection.

 

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