Gemäldegalerie - one of the true gems of not only German, but also in the world of art museums necklace. In Europe, the gallery is one of the most coveted objects for anyone who loves classical painting. Geographically, the gallery is located not far from Potsdamplatts in the Kulturforum.

Date of opening of the Berlin Art Gallery - 1830. Certainly, the building experienced various times, but at the end of the last century it was decided to relocation gallery into a new house. In 1998, the Art Gallery of Berlin once again opened its facilities for visitors. Today in this gallery exhibited the works of Rubens and Rembrandt, Bosch and Caravaggio, Dürer and Botticelli and many others. The building was constructed with the necessary parameters, in particular, in the halls of the gallery created optimal conditions for the works of art that can safely be called priceless.

The project is a new building with three galleries created by German architects - Heinz Hilmerom, Christoph Sattler and Thomas Albrecht. The decoration of the facade of the Renaissance feel, but you can also find real and Prussian Classicism. The highlight of the Berlin art gallery is a foyer decorated with two rows of slender columns and glass domes in the amount of 32 pieces. Also, the project is harmoniously combined with a fountain.

A total of more than seven dozen gallery exhibition halls with a total area of ​​about seven thousand square meters. At the same time may be exhibited in the gallery 900 pictures, and in addition to that established in the basement of the so-called sketch gallery where you can see up to four canvases. The total number of paintings, which are present today in the vaults and the museum exhibitions is neither more nor less - 3500 paintings, which are separated by periods into 10 sections.

Gemäldegalerie cooperates with many museums in Europe and the world, so in its vaults of paintings often present cast for temporary use. Similarly, many private collectors are honored to give his paintings here at the exhibition, dedicated to some events.