A proactive effort to document the collection of the Gemäldegalerie will pay off a century later as negatives of lost ...
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin will publish online high-resolution images of around 430 paintings destroyed in 1945 fires during World War II, preserved through prewar glass negatives. Originally ...
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie will digitize and publish online photo archives of around 430 paintings destroyed in 1945 fires during World War II. The images, taken in 1925 by photographer Gustav Schwarz, ...
“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference,” said Kevin Peraino in The New York Times. That’s the underlying message of Ian Buruma’s “crisply told and uncomfortably relevant” new history of ...
World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, along with a handful of courageous resisters. But it is the people navigating between these two moral poles that seem to interest Ian Buruma the ...