Bröhan Museum
The Brohan Museum Berlin is the internationally oriented State Museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism ( 1889-1939 ). It is located in a late classical infantry barracks opposite the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin Castle Street in the district of Charlottenburg. The stocks are divided into two main areas: arts and crafts and fine arts.
The museum concept follows the principle of presentation of art objects as room ensembles. The period from Art Nouveau as a pioneer of modernism to the Art Deco and Functionalism is representatively shown in combination with furniture, rugs, lights, graphics and paintings by selected examples of glass, ceramic, porcelain, silver and metal. The collection illustrates the equivalence of different art expressions.
The collection focuses on works of French and Belgian Art Nouveau, German and Scandinavian Art Nouveau, as well as ensembles of French Art Deco. The Brohan Museum is Hort an exceptionally rich collection of porcelain major manufactures ( KPM Berlin, Royal Copenhagen, Meissen, Nymphenburg, Sèvres, etc. ) as well as metal and glass work of the major artists and companies of the time including the pioneering industrial production.
The spectrum includes, inter alia, outstanding examples of the following artists and companies: Émile Gallé and Joh Loetz widow, furniture by Eugène Gaillard, Hector Guimard, Louis Majorelle, Peter Behrens, Bruno Paul and Richard Riemerschmid, furniture ensembles of Jacques -Émile Ruhlmann, Art Art Deco as the ironwork by Edgar Brandt, silver by Jean Puiforcat, Paris, and Georg Jensen, Copenhagen. On the third floor a cabinet is dedicated to the Belgian Art Nouveau artist Henry van de Velde and the Vienna Secession artists Josef Hoffmann, respectively.
Significant designer serial design of the period 1900 to 1939 are represented with exemplary works such as Friedrich Adler, Albin Müller, Christopher Dresser Jan Eisenloeffel, Hermann Gretsch, Archibald Knox, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Trude Petri and Wilhelm Wagenfeld.
In particular, the photo collection of Brohan Museum includes painters of the Berlin Secession as Hans Baluschek, Karl Hagemeister, Willy Jaeckel, Walter Leistikov and Franz Skarbina.
Influenced by Cubism Jean Lambert- Rucki is represented with a large painting group and forms an adequate complement to the French Art Deco furniture. Since the 25th anniversary of the museum, in December 1998, paintings, pastels and drawings in a picture gallery on the first floor can be seen.
The museum is named after its founder, Karl H. Brohan (1921-2000), who donated his private collection to the city of Berlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The art collection had been continuously built up by him and made accessible in a villa in Dahlem to the public since 1973. On October 14, 1983, the collection moved into rooms in the late classical, belonging to the Charlottenburg Palace ensemble former barracks building. In 1994, the Brohan Museum, a state museum. The international significance of the collection, the Brohan Museum takes within the museum location Berlin and beyond national borders an important place. In addition, temporary exhibitions on various aspects of Art Nouveau, Art Déco and the Berlin Secession are shown.
Opposite the museum, on the central promenade of the castle road, since 1901 is the Prinz-Albrecht- monument of sculptor Eugene Börmel and Conrad Freyberg.