Dahlem Museums

Dutch and Flemish paintings of particular importance in the Dahlem Museum Picture Gallery are the Rembrandts, including "The Mennonite Preacher Anslo and his Wife" 1641, "Susanna and the Two Old People" 1647, "Hendrickje Stoffels" and the "Man with a Golden Helmet" (attributed to Rembrandt or a member of his circle). There are also well-known works by Gerard ter Borch, Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Brueghel the Elder, Van Cleve, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, Hugo van der Goes, Frans Hals, Lucas van Leyden, Hans Memling, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean Fouquet, Rogier van der Weyden and others.

The English paintings department in the Dahlem Museum's Picture Gallery is being fitted out. Artists include Thomas Gainsborough ("Portrait of an Old Lady"), Joshua Reynolds ("George Clive and Family"), Thomas Lawrence, John Hopper and Raeburn.

French paintings of particular importance in the Dahlem Museum Picture Gallery are three works by Poussin, a landscape by Claude Lorrain and pictures by George de la Tour and the Le Nain brothers (17th century). There are also works by 18th century artists including Antoine Pesne, Jean Restout and Antoine Watteau.

German paintings in the Dahlem Museum Picture Gallery feature eight works by Dürer, including the "Virgin with the Song-Bird," the "Young Woman from Vienna" and the famous portraits of Hieronymus Bosch and Jacob Muffel. There are also works by Albrecht Altdorfer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger.

Notable among works by Italian masters in the Dahlem Museum Picture Gallery are paintings by Bellini, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Carracci, Giotto, Filippo Lippi, Passerotti, Pollaiuolo, Raphael, Tiepolo and Titian.

Opened in 1970, the collection of the Museum of East Asian Art in Berlin's Dahlem Museums complex covers the art of China, Korea and Japan from 3000 BC to the present day, including bronzes, ceramics, painting, woodcuts, sculpture, lacquer work, jade, grave furnishings and small sculptures (including 63 Chinese bronze mirrors, sixth-ninth C.; the throne of a Chinese emperor, 17th C.). The emphasis is on Chinese and Japanese mother-of-pearl inlay, colored lacquer work and East Asian wood carving. The museum of East Asian Art in Dahlem is complemented by a similar one in the Pergamon Museum.

Spanish paintings of particular importance in the Dahlem Museum Picture Gallery are El Greco's "Mater Dolorosa" as well as pictures by Goya, Velázquez ("Portrait of a Lady"), Murillo ("Baptism of Christ") and Zurbarán ("Portrait of Alonso Verdugo").