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On 17 October 2025, Berlin’s Bröhan Museum will open the exhibition “Havel Air and City Lights: City and Countryside in the Paintings of the Berlin Secession”. The show is the last opportunity to see the paintings before the Bröhan Museum closes for renovation in spring 2027.
Around 1900, the relationship between urban and rural areas underwent a fundamental change. Growing cities became centres of economic, social and cultural dynamism – a development that was particularly pronounced in Berlin, the still young capital of the German Empire. The influx of workers created new social milieus and led to tensions that shaped urban life. The hectic atmosphere, noise and cramped conditions of the big city awakened a growing …
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Photo above: Willy Jaeckel. Im Kaffeehaus, 1912. Bröhan Museum. Photo: Martin Adam, Berlin.
