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"This illustrated book guides the viewer through the museum of Berlin's Museum Island, highlighting major works in all five institutions. The tour spans from the Antiquities Collecion in Schinkel's Altes Museum to pantings and sculptures in the Alte Nationalgalerie, from great show pieces of ancient times in the Pergamon Museum to the Sculpture Collection in the Bode Museum and includes the Neues Museum"--Jacket.
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The world-famous architect leoh Ming Pei -- the creator of numerous icons of modern architecture such as the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. or the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris -- recently completed his first building in Germany, an extension to the German Historical Museum in Berlin. It is a triumph of museum architecture in the new century. Book jacket.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Antikensammlung Berlin, Pergamon Altar, Duenos Inscription, Neues Museum, Altes Museum, Pergamon Museum, Glyptothek, Staatliche Sammlung fur Agyptische Kunst, Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte, Romano-Germanic Museum, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Ishtar Gate, Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, Roman Villa Borg, Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Severan Tondo, Helms-Museum, Bavarian State Archaeological Collection, Bonn Egyptian Museum, Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum, Neanderthal Museum, Hedeby Viking Museum. Excerpt: The Pergamon Altar is a monumental con...
This book, edited by David Chipperfield, documents his most important project to date: the Neues Museum, the centrepiece of the Berlin Museumsinsel. Here he connects the old and new in a completely novel way. As he says himself, he proceeded like a painter, who painstakingly considers every dab of paint. Photographs by Candida Höfer show the rooms after their completion and before they were furnished. As Höfer avoided using artificial light, the rooms are bathed in a soft natural light. These critical moments are perfectly reproduced in the book as matt colour plates. The photographer is inspired by the empty rooms and grandiose corridors of space to then dedicate her attention to the arch...