Die historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg
By: herausgegeben von Julietta Scharf und Hanna Strzoda in Zusammenarbeit mit Janina Dahlmanns
Contributors: Strzoda, Hanna; Dahlmanns, Janina; Scharf, Julietta
Publisher: Hatje/Cantz
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ostfildern
Language: ger
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9783775734165
Subjects: Exhibitions; Catalogs; Modern Painting; Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg (Berlin, Germany)
Description: The gallery belonging to General Director Gerstenberg is by far the most important collection of modern painting in Berlin; nowhere else in Germany can one study the splendor of the nineteenth century in such detail," rhapsodized Max Liebermann in 1921. Comprising more than 2,100 works, Otto Gerstenberg assembled after 1900 a collection of paintings and prints of international standing that reflected the glamour of Berlin as a metropolis of private art collecting. Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Franciscon de Goya, Max Liebermann, Édouard Manet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were just some of the illustrious names represented in the collection. Exhibition: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Germany (10.2012-).
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Germany, which opened 10.2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bd.1. Essays; title: Bd.2. Sammlungsverzeichnis.