Alte Nationalgalerie: Day ticket

Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National gallery): Book your day ticket now and receive admission at the booked time. No printout needed - valid as smartphone voucher.

The imposing museum on the Museum Island presents 19th century art between the French Revolution and the First World War, between classicism and the Berlin Secession. Designed by Friedrich August Stüler, the building now houses one of the most beautiful collections of paintings and sculptures of the 19th century.

Current exhibitions: 1 day ticket for the Alte Nationalgalerie

✔ Permanent exhibition: Art of the 19th century on 3 floors

✔ Exhibition from 27.09.2024 until 26.01.2025: Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape

200 paintings, sculptures and graphic works by 80 artists

In addition to these protagonists, the current exhibition shows works by Lovis Corinth, Hugo von Habermann, Josef Engelhart, Emilie von Hallavanya, Thomas Theodor Heine, Dora Hitz, Josef Hoffmann, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Kurzweil, Walter Leistikow, Sabine Lepsius, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Carl Moll, Koloman Moser, Maria Slavona, Max Slevogt, Fritz von Uhde, Lesser Ury, Otto Wagner, Julie Wolfthorn as well as works by international guests such as Ferdinand Hodler, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, Giovanni Segantini and Jan Toorop.

Art of the 19th century and exhibitions

There are masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich, Adolph of Menzel, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Anselm Feuerbach, Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées, Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth. One of the highlights of the sculpture collection is the famous "Prinzessinnengruppe", the twin image of the princesses Luise and Friederike.

Impressionistic Painting & Sculpture

With astonishing imagination and fine colourism, Adolph Menzel's paintings, including important works such as the "Balcony Room" and the "Iron Rolling Mill", depict themes of Prussian history. Likewise, the sculptures of the 19th century include famous works such as the Princess Group by Johann Gottfried Schadow as well as numerous works by Berthel Thorwaldsen, Antonio Canova, Ridolfo Schadow, Reinhold Begas, Adolf von Hildebrand and Constantin Meunier. An extensive collection of Impressionist painting awaits you. Here you will see masterpieces by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne and sculptures by Auguste Rodin. Painting from the second half of the 19th century features works by Hans Thoma, Anselm Feuerbach, Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées, Wilhelm Leibl, Wilhelm Trübner and a large collection of paintings by Max Liebermann.

The art of the Goethe era

The art of the Goethe period is represented with portraits and landscapes, including works by Jakob Philipp Hackerts, Anton Graff. Also on display are works by the Nazarenes working in Rome by Peter Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck, Wilhelm Schadow and Philipp Veit, who created an important commissioned work for the Casa Bartholdy in Rome with the frescoes on the Joseph Legend.

From Romanticism to Biedermeier

Paintings by the great master of German Romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich, through landscape paintings by Karl Friedrich Schinkel to the works of Karl Blechen with his unconventional pictorial themes, an extensive collection is presented. The exhibition also features portraits by Philipp Otto Runge and Gottlieb Schick, landscapes by Joseph Anton Koch and Carl Rottmann. Berlin city views by Eduard Gaertner and Johann Erdmann Hummel as well as landscapes and portraits by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller show Biedermeier works.