The Alte Nationalgalerie (“Old National Gallery”) is part of the impressive Museum Island complex. The antiquated temple building dates back to Friedrich Wilhelm IV. It is the parent house of an art collection that is now distributed among several museums, such as the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche, the Museum Berggruen and the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. On display in the Alte Nationalgalerie are mainly paintings from earlier epochs.
Famous works of art that you can view in the Alte Nationalgalerie are by Paul Cézanne, Edouard Manet, Carl Spitzweg, Arnold Böcklin, Max Liebermann, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eduard Gaertner, Adolph Menzel, Wilhelm Leibl, Carl Blechen, Anselm Feuerbach, Hans von Marées, Carl Schuch, Carl Gustav Carus, Edouard Manet and many other masters.
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