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Berlin’s best art museum, the Gemäldegalerie focuses on European art of the 13th to 19th centuries, such as Caravaggio’s Cupid Victorious , and works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens (see Gemäldegalerie) .

The National Gallery’s collection includes modern German art and classics of the 20th century. It often holds spectacular temporary exhibitions.

The Old National Gallery, built by Friedrich August Stüler in 1866–76 on the Museumsinsel, has been completely restored. Today it holds a collection of 19th-century (and mainly German) paintings, including works by Adolf von Menzel, Wilhelm Leibl, Max Liebermann and Arnold Böcklin. The gallery also has sculptures by Schadow, Rauch and Reinhold Begas.

A “museum of the present day”, the historic Hamburg Station houses modern paintings, installations and multi-media art. One of its highlights is the Erich Marx Collection, with works by Joseph Beuys. Apart from famous artists like Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Robert Rauschenberg, it also owns works by Anselm Kiefer, Sandro Chiao and others.

Heinz Berggruen, born in Berlin in 1914, emigrated but returned to Berlin in 1996. His collection, including works from Picasso’s “blue period”, is based in a historic building by Stüler.

Few schools have exercised as much influence on 20th-century architecture and design as the Bauhaus, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. On show in the museum are furniture, sketches, everyday objects and paintings.

Sponsored by the Deutsche Bank, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions, often showing modern art from the US (see Central Berlin: Unter den Linden) .

Huge collections of mostly German, east European and Russian painters, photographers, graphic designers and architects from the 20th century, such as Baselitz, Grosz and Kirchner.

A unique collection of Art-Nouveau and Art-Deco objects from around Europe is on display at this small museum. Also an exhibition of paintings by Berlin artists.

Five centuries of prints and calligraphies, including works by Botticelli, Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier and the Dutch Old Masters, are on display in this gallery.