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unusual facts about Berlin Museum


Karl Eduard von Liphart

It was Liphart and his friend the Director of the Berlin Museum, Wilhelm von Bode, who independently established that this artist was more than just an etcher.


1815 in birding and ornithology

Karl Heinrich Bergius arrives in Cape Town in order to make natural history collections for the Berlin Museum

George Fisk Comfort

In Berlin, Comfort was influenced by meetings and studies with the philosopher Friedrich Kaulbach, Carl Richard Lepsius (curator of Egyptology at the Berlin Museum), Gemäldegalerie director Gustav Waagen, Leopold von Ranke, among others.

Peter Caulitz

The Berlin Museum has a scene representing a poultry-yard by him; there are other examples at Potsdam and at Brunswick.


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Gustav Friedrich Waagen

A pamphlet on the brothers Van Eyck led in 1832 to his appointment to the directorship of the newly founded Berlin Museum, now vastly expanded as the Berlin State Museums, although his main interest was the paintings in what is now the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

Karl Hermann Berendt

At the request of the Berlin museum he spent a winter in securing and forwarding the sculptured slabs of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala, but an attack of fever terminated his work.

Matthew Stirling

When he traveled to Europe with his family after graduation, he found the masquette itself in the Berlin Museum, and intrigued by the Olmec culture, took time to look at other specimens in the Maximilian Collection in Vienna, and later, in Madrid.