The project of a public collection of old European masters had been initiated by the archaeologist Aloys Hirt (1759-1837) already in 1797 and had gained support from the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Friedrich Nietzsche | Carl Sagan | Carl Jung | Friedrich Schiller | Alexander von Humboldt | Carl Orff | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Carl Lewis | Carl Zeiss AG | Carl Linnaeus | Carl Sandburg | Friedrich Engels | Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Lars von Trier | Ferdinand von Mueller | Carl Levin | Paul von Hindenburg | Carl Zeiss | Carl Michael Bellman | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter |