Alte Nationalgalerie
Neoclassical temple-front gallery of nineteenth-century paintings and sculpture, its modern art once purged by the Nazis.
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This guide to the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin turns on 1937, when Nazi officials swept through the museum's modern art wing and hauled away more than five hundred paintings and sculptures as degenerate. Ludwig Justi, the curator who built that collection, had already been dismissed in 1933 for believing Expressionism belonged in a national museum, years before the works themselves were burned in a Berlin courtyard or auctioned off abroad. A listening tip: stand in the galleries where that collection once hung.
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