From March 23, 2024, the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation will show the group exhibition “Der Himmel über Brandenburg (The Sky over Brandenburg): Landscapes of Berlin Impressionism” with works by Philipp Franck, Karl Hagemeister, Walter Leistikow, Emil Pottner, Lesser Ury, Paul Process and Julie Wolfthorn. The Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation’s first special exhibition this year is dedicated to Berlin Impressionism. Above all, the exhibition aims to show the diversity with which artists of Berlin Impressionism portrayed the characteristics of the Brandenburg landscapes. In addition to famous artists such as Walter Leistikow, Lesser Ury and Karl Hagemeister, works by artists who are now mostly only known to a specialist audience can also be seen in the exhibition. The painter Julie Wolfthorn represents the women who had a decisive influence on the Berlin artistic avant-garde at the end of the 19th century.
41 paintings are collected in the exhibition. The paintings are on loan from Berlin museums such as the Bröhan Museum, the City Museum, the Berlinische Galerie and from numerous private collectors. Some works are being shown in an …
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Image above: Walter Leistikow, Märkischer Waldsee mit zwei Birken, around 1895, oil on canvas, Bröhan, Museum, Berlin / legacy from the Werner and Irmgard Küpper collection, Berlin, reproduction: Martin Adam, Berlin