From September 2025, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will once again be inviting visitors to engage intensively with art and cultural history topics. The series of lectures with accompanying viewings of works in front of originals as well as the series of talks at the Kulturforum Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Museum für Fotografie will open up views far beyond the collections and special exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen.
Beauty, Pride and Naked Violence: German Painting and Graphics from Lochner and Witz to Schongauer
(Gemäldegalerie)
The 15th century is an era of important upheavals and innovations. In the German-speaking world, painters and graphic artists were influenced by the Italian Renaissance and Dutch Ars Nova. At the same time, they developed printmaking (and letterpress printing) into one of the most important art forms of the time.
As producers of copperplate engravings, they became protagonists of the first information age triggered by this technical innovation. Images and …
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Image above: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, photo: Valerie Schmidt.