Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg - Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg
Schlossstraße 70
14059 Berlin
Telephone: +49 (0)30 - 34 35 73 15
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Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberghttp://www.smb.museum/ssg
The Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg can be found in the eastern Stüler building and in the Marstall (stables wing) opposite Charlottenburg Palace. Paintings, sculptures and works on paper are being exhibited on three floors under the title "Surreal Worlds".
The history of fantastical art is traced in more than 250 works. Surrealism, a movement seeking to renew art whose principles were proclaimed in a manifesto by André Breton in the Paris of 1924, is at the centre of the collection.
Nearly all members of the group of Surrealists are represented by selected works in the collection. There are larger groups of works, in particular, by René Magritte, Max Ernst and Hans Bellmer, but also by Wols and Paul Klee. The central pictorial strategies of Surrealism, such as combinatorics, metamorphosis and pure psychic automatism are illustrated by numerous virtuoso examples.
Related Topics
Dieter Scharf, Fantastic Art, Gustave Moreau, Hans Bellmer, Max Ernst, Max Klinger, Odilon Redon, Otto Gerstenberg, Painting, Paul Klee, Piranesi, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Surrealism, Wols
