Teenager, master tailor and court president
Johann Gottfried Schadow’s portrait busts of bourgeois Berlin
As part of an intervention within the exhibition “Everyday Life in Biedermeier Berlin”, ten busts created by Schadow and artists in his entourage are currently on display in the Museum Knoblauchhaus.
Location
Museum Knoblauchhaus
Poststraße 23
10178 Berlin
Opening Hours
Di – Do | 12 – 6 p.m.
Fr – Su | 10 – 6 p.m.
Mo closed
Entry
free (Donations requested)
Around 1800, portrait busts were a popular way for families to display prominent personalities, as well as friends and family members, in their homes. While sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow is best known as the creator of the Quadriga sculpture on top of the Brandenburg Gate, he also created numerous busts, mostly of subjects from his own bourgeois milieu. In a departure from the neoclassical portrait tradition which idealised its subjects, his vivid and lifelike portrayals resonated with the emerging tastes of his day.
Schadow in Berlin
The selection presented includes a wide variety of bourgeois portraits busts from the collections of the Stadtmuseum Berlin and the Nationalgalerie, as well as from private collections. This intervention in the Museum Knoblauchhaus is conceived as a complement the Johann Gottfried Schadow retrospective in the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Ridolfo Schadow exhibition at Schloss Charlottenburg.
A true rarity on display
For the entire duration of the exhibition intervention, the relief panel “Minerva” will be exhibited on the ground floor of the Museum Knoblauchhaus, a section of Schadow’s monumental but rarely shown work “Münzfries”.A cooperation with
Info & Service
Opening Hours
Tue – Sun | 10 am – 6 pm (also on public holidays)
Mon closed
Differing opening hours:
Mon | 21.04. (Easter Monday) | 10 am – 6 pm
Mon | 09.06. (Whit Monday) | 10 am – 6 pm
Sat | 21.06. (Museum Festival / Fête de la Musique) | 10 am – 10 pm | free admission
Sat | 30.08. (Long Night of the Museums) | 6 pm – 2 am
Wed | 24.12. (Christmas Eve) | closed
Thu | 25.12. (Christmas Day) | 12 – 6 pm
Fri | 26.12. (Boxing Day) | 12 – 6 pm
Wed | 31.12. (New Year’s Eve) | closed
Thu | 01.01. (New Year’s Day) | 12 – 6 pm
The visitor rules of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin apply.
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Poststraße 23
10178 Berlin
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not barrier-free
Tickets
Admission
Combi-Ticket
15 euros
Valid for our three museums in the Nikolaiviertel (Museum Nikolaikirche, Museum Ephraim-Palais, Museum Knoblauchhaus) on two consecutive days (please note opening hours)
Single Ticket
5 euros
Day ticket for the Museum Knoblauchhaus
Free admission
With proof of reduction
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