The foundations for a world-class public art collection in Berlin were laid in 1821: This was
the year the Kingdom of Prussia acquired on behalf of the museum to be established in Berlin
the painting collection of English merchant Edward Solly (1776-1844). Between 1815 and 1820
this cosmopolitan lover of the arts living in Berlin amassed thousands of paintings above all
from Italy Germany and the Netherlands. Many of the works were by artists little known at the
time but who subsequently came to be greatly appreciated and are still renowned today. The
exhibition and the accompanying catalogue showcase a representative selection of masterpieces
rediscoveries and historical peculiarities and provide an insight into an age that on the one
hand shaped our concepts of art and museums and on the other hand had an entirely different
view of the works than we have today. Detailed insights into the history of the Berlin
Gemäldegalerie Exhibition: Gemäldegalerie Berlin 2022 Artists i.e.: Wilhelm Hensel Meister
der Dossali Veneziani Puccio di Simone Giotto Meister des San Niccolò-Altares Domenico und
Davide Ghirlandaio Raffael Girolamo Figino Johannes Hispanus Girolamo Romanino Giovanni
Battista Benvenuti Goossen van der Weyden Hans Holbein der Jüngere Hans Maler Ambrosius
Benson Jan Gossart Rembrandt Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem Gian Domenico Cerrini
