--- title: "Brandenburg.Ausstellung" date: 2022-11-29 last_modified: 2022-11-29T11:00:26+01:00 generated_at: 2026-05-17T17:35:05Z url: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/article/brandenburg-ausstellung" description: "The newly conceived Brandenburg.Ausstellung (Brandenburg.Exhibition) invites visitors on a journey through ten centuries of multifaceted regional history. A long-term lender to the permanent exhibition in the Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte, the Stadtmuseum Berlin is once again contributing numerous objects from its collections." image: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/friedrichi_preussen.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # Brandenburg.Ausstellung Johann Karl Kretschmar: Portrait of Amalie Beer, c. 1803 © Stadtmuseum Berlin ![Johann Karl Kretschmar: Portrait Amalie Beer, um 1803](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/amaliebeer-226x300.jpg) ## Permanent exhibition Far from being a permanent exhibition in the classic sense, *Brandenburg.Ausstellung* offers new perspectives on the past by asking questions from the present. It tells the story of Brandenburg through the eyes of the citizens themselves: their history, their experiences, their stories. *Brandenburg.Ausstellung* offers space for updates, discussion, intervention and participation. The 14-chapter exhibition tour opens with a *Brandenburg.Panorama*, which features introductory films on the political history of Brandenburg-Prussia and on Brandenburg’s history of migration. In addition to 228 original objects from 72 lenders, the exhibition features ten large-format thematic maps of Brandenburg’s historical landscape, ten video sequences with ‘living portraits’ of historical personalities and ten media stations with informative video and audio, historical documents and games. The #menschbrandenburg format introduces contemporary civil society initiatives into the exhibition's historical narrative. ## Loans from the Stadtmuseum Berlin *Brandenburg.Ausstellung* provides an overview of Brandenburg’s cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present day in around 300 exhibits. The Stadtmuseum Berlin contributed seven paintings from its collection. The "Portrait of Amalie Beer" by Johann Karl Kretschmar, painted around 1803, is on loan in Potsdam thanks to the Hans and Luise Richter Foundation. The "Portrait of King Frederick I in Prussia" also features in the new permanent exhibition. ![Unbekannter Künstler: Bildnis König Friedrich I. in Preußen, nach 1701](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/friedrichi_preussen-232x300.jpg) Unknown artist: Portrait of King Frederick I in Prussia, after 1701 © Stadtmuseum Berlin King Frederick I in Prussia (1657-1713) succeeded the Great Elector as Frederick III in 1688. In 1701 he crowned himself King of Prussia. The reconstruction of the castle began under his reign. King Frederick I is portrayed with the insignia of his new rank: in ceremonial armour, an ermine-trimmed purple cloak and the chain of the Order of the Black Eagle. The tablecloth woven through with gold also shows the crown above the coat of arms of the Electorate of Brandenburg. King Frederick’s pose is borrowed from a 1701 portrait of Louis XIV, whose pose became a standard for rulers throughout Europe. Other works are on loan from the collections Childhood and Youth, Everyday Culture, Decorative Arts, Theatre, Music and Literature, Geology, Numismatics, Sculpture, Silver, Ceramics, Liturgy and Furniture. A selection can be found in the picture gallery. ![]() ![Dampfspielzeug, ca. 1902](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/dampfspielzeug_um19007b91.jpg) This children's toy, a steam engine with a horizontal boiler and petroleum drive, was made around 1902. ![verzierter Holzstuhl mit Leders-Sitzfläche, hölzernen Armlehnen und niedriger geflochtener Rückenlehne.](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/schreibtischstuhl_theodorfontanee48d.jpg) This desk chair belonged to the writer Theodor Fontane (1819-1898). It was built in the second half of the 19<sup>th</sup> century in Berlin/Brandenburg and consists of oak veneer (edges), birch bottom (edges), solid oak, wickerwork and an inlaid cushion (careau pické) with artificial leather. ![Landschaft Gemälde von Walter Leistikow](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/leistikow_dasbruch2ce6.jpg) Walter Leistikow: <em>Das Bruch</em>, c. 1900 // Walter Leistikow (1865-1908) was a member of the <em>Verein der Berliner Künstler</em> (Association of Berlin artists). After the association rejected a painting by Edvard Munch in 1892, Leistikow, Max Liebermann and others founded the <em>Vereinigung der XI</em> (Association of the 11) in protest. The rejection of his painting <em>Der Grunewaldsee</em> by the jury of the <em>Große Berliner Kunstausstellung</em> (Greater Berlin Art Exhibition) in 1898 led to the founding of the Berlin Secession, for which he served as a member of the board until his death. In 1903, he co-founded the <em>Deutscher Künstlerbund </em>(Federation of German Artists). <em>Das Bruch</em> was painted during a productive phase that saw the artist turn away from the stylisation of nature towards a more naturalistic rendering. ![Burstharnisch für Kinder um 1900](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/gardducorps_kuerasskinder_1900ba87.jpg) This cuirass (breastplate) was made as a children’s toy around 1900. It is made of tinplate, leather and brass. The armour is modelled after the armour of the Gardes du Corps, a cuirassier regiment of the Prussian Army. The regiment was raised by Frederick II of Prussia in 1740, increased to three squadrons in 1756, and led as the 13<sup>th</sup> Cuirassier Regiment. It existed until after the First World War. ![Helm für Kinder um 1900](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/gardducorps_helmkinder_19002523.jpg) This helmet was made as a children’s toy around 1900. It is made of tinplate, leather and brass. The armour is modelled after the armour of the Gardes du Corps, a cuirassier regiment of the Prussian Army. The regiment was raised by Frederick II of Prussia in 1740, increased to three squadrons in 1756, and led as the 13<sup>th</sup> Cuirassier Regiment. It existed until after the First World War. Information on the exhibition is taken with kind permission from the presentation at the Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte. Information about the loans is given courtesy of Randy-Noreen Rathenow, staff member of the Toy, Childhood and Youth Collection; Annette Bossmann, Head of the Painting Collection, as well as from the Online Collection. Read more Read less [ Exhibition website](https://gesellschaft-kultur-geschichte.de/) Exhibition venue **Location** Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte Kutschstall, Am Neuen Markt 9 14467 Potsdam ## Mehr erfahren - [ ![](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/altes-spielzeug-300x114.jpg)](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/sammlung/sammlungen/sammlungen-alltagskultur__trashed/spielzeugsammlung) - [ ![](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sammlung_gemaelde_02_walterleistikow-abendstimmungschlachtensee_gem-68-16_bartsch-300x233.jpg)](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/sammlung/sammlungen/sammlungen-berlin-in-der-kunst__trashed/gemaeldesammlung) - [ ![Cornelie Richter (3. von rechts) mit ihren Söhnen Gustav, Raoul, Reinhold und Hans Richter, 1900](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cornelie-richter-mit-soehnen-300x210.jpg) ### Hans-und-Luise-Richter-Stiftung Das Stadtmuseum Berlin bewahrt wesentliche Teile aus dem Nachlass der Familie Beer-Meyerbeer-Richter, die das geistige und wirtschaftliche Leben Berlins nachhaltig geprägt hat. 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