A federal. decentralised country, Germany has national collections dispersed among several major cities, with the result that the capital lacks a truly world-class art museum. That said, there are four big public institutions, including the Old and New National Galleries; a number of smaller, more specialised collections devoted to movements such as Expressionism and the Bauhaus or individuals such as George Kolbe or Käthe Kollwitz; and an extremely lively commercial gallery scene of increasing international importance.
Museum of Kathe Kollwitz's art
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is a powerful, deeply empathetic work that embraces the full spectrum of life--from the joy of motherhood to the pain of death (with rather more emphasis on the latter than the former)....
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Contemporary art in converted station
Focusing on work post-1960 with a special interest in 'the interdisciplinary character of contemporary art', the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart – a converted train station – mounts big temporary exhibitions drawn from the various collections and archives at its disposal....
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Art museum in Berlin
The Picture Gallery's first-rate early European collection features a healthy selection of the biggest names in Western art....
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Everything you always wanted to know about the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Archiv (Museum für Gestaltung) is a small but satisfying museum devoted to the Bauhaus, one of the 20th century's most important schools of art, architecture and design....
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New National Gallery
Designed in the 1960s by Mies van der Rohe, the Neue Nationalgalerie houses German and international paintings from the 20th century....
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Museum dedicated to expressionist painters
Brücke Museum is a small but satisfying museum is dedicated to the work of Die Brücke ('The Bridge'), a group of expressionist painters that was founded in Dresden in 1905 before later moving to Berlin....
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