Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection
The Sammlung Scharf -Gerstenberg is an art museum in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. It shows in July 2008 art by the French Romanticism to Surrealism. The collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures belonging to the " Foundation Collection Dieter Scharf in memory of Otto Gerstenberg " is initially on loan for ten years resident in the former premises of the Egyptian Museum and belongs to the National Gallery in Berlin.
Foundation
The museum displays works of the " Foundation Collection Dieter Scharf in memory of Otto Gerstenberg ". Otto Gerstenberg was at the beginning of the 20th century one of the most important art collectors in Berlin. His collection was partially destroyed in the war. Other parts of the collection are as so-called trophy art ' in Russian museums. Of the remaining family-owned art works his grandson Dieter Scharf (1926-2001) inherited a collection of graphics that formed the basis for his own activities as a collector. Shortly before his death changed focus this collection, which was shown in 2000 under the title " Surreal Worlds " in Berlin, in a foundation to. First, a temporary ten -year loan contract has been agreed between the Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the " Foundation Collection Dieter Scharf in memory of Otto Gerstenberg " therefor the eastern Stülerbau in Charlottenburg available.
Building
The Sammlung Scharf -Gerstenberg is located in the Castle Road 70 over the present Museum Berggruen (western Stülerbau ). The two buildings are separated by the Spandauerdamm from Charlottenburg Palace. They go back to designs of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, which were implemented in the years 1851-1859 by the architect Friedrich August Stiller. Both Stülerbauten originally served as officers' barracks of the Garde du Corps Regiment. The eastern Stülerbau concurs with the 1855-1858 built by Karl Wilhelm Drewitz former stables building. From 1967 to 2005, the eastern Stülerbau served together with the stables building as Egyptian Museum. The buildings were rebuilt from 2005 to 2008 for future use as a museum Scharf-Gerstenberg under the direction of architect Gregor Sunder - Plassmann for ten million euros.
The Collection
Among the works of the " Foundation Collection Dieter Scharf in memory of Otto Gerstenberg " the inherited Dieter Scharf from the collection of his grandfather, include graphics of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, Charles Meryon, Victor Hugo, Édouard Manet and Max Klinger. The works of these artists made for Dieter Scharf the basis for the creation of 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 collection focus is, like the prototype Otto Gerstenberg, to graphic work. Other artists in the collection include Gerhard Old Bourg, Willi Baumeister, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Paul Éluard, James Ensor, Alberto Giacometti, George Grosz, Horst Janssen, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, André Masson, Joan Miró, Edvard Munch, Richard Oelze, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Seurat, Mark Tobey and wolf.
The Collection Scharf- Gerstenberg includes thematically on the collection of " Picasso and his time" in the Berggruen Museum opposite, with individual artists such as Picasso, Klee and Giacometti are represented in both collections. Until the completion of the fourth exhibition wing of the Pergamon Museum are also seen the Gate of Kalabsha and the columns of ancient temple Sahurê from the collection of the Egyptian Museum in the Museum Scharf-Gerstenberg.