--- title: "Teenager, master tailor and court president" date: 2022-11-08 last_modified: 2023-02-27T13:41:02+01:00 generated_at: 2026-05-29T17:16:05Z url: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/teenager-master-tailor-and-court-president" description: "Johann Gottfried Schadow's portrait busts of bourgeois Berlin" image: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/marianne-schlegel-bueste-johann-gottfried-schadow.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # Teenager, master tailor and court president ![](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/marianne-schlegel-bueste-johann-gottfried-schadow.jpg) - 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. ![Die Reliefplatte „Minerva“ im Eingangsbereich des Museums Knoblauchhaus](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Knoblauchhaus_Eingang-225x300.jpeg) ### 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 [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/logo-schadow-gesellschaft-berlin.png)](https://schadow-gesellschaft-berlin.de/) ## Info & Service ##### Opening Hours Tue – Sun | 10 am – 6 pm (also on public holidays) Mon closed **Differing opening hours:** Wed | 20.05. | 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Staff meeting) Mon | 25.05. | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Whit Monday) Sun | 21 .06.2026 | 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. (Museum Festival / Fête de la Musique) Sat | 29.08. | 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. (Long Night of Museums) Thu | 24.12. | Closed (Christmas Eve) Fri & Sat | 25. + 26.12. | 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. (First & Second Christmas Day) Thu | 31.12. | Closed (New Year’s Eve) Fri | 01.01. 2027 | 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. (New Year’s Day) The [visitor rules](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/besuchsordnung-stadtmuseum-berln.pdf) of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin apply. ##### Directions Poststraße 23 10178 Berlin [ Google Maps](https://g.page/Knoblauchhaus?share) [ Bus & Train](https://www.bvg.de/en/connections/connection-search) ##### Contact Infoline +49 30 24 002-162 Mo – Fri | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. [Write E-Mail](mailto:info@stadtmuseum.de) ##### Accessibility 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** 7 euros Day ticket for the Museum Knoblauchhaus **Free admission With proof of reduction** for children and adolescents under 18 years of age, students, trainees, FSJ/FÖJ/BFD volunteers, Berlin Ticket S holders, severely disabled persons (at least 50% GdB) and their Personal Assistant, refugees (with a valid work or residence permit/eAT and a Ukrainian passport or valid residence permit from Ukraine), recipients of transfer payments (Bürgergeld, ALG I), holders of the Berlin-Brandenburg Ehrenamtskarte, holders of the Super-Ferienpass / Berliner Familienpass, ICOM members, members of Deutscher Museumsbund, Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Stadtmuseums Berlin e. V. (except for the Museumsdorf Düppel), Förderverein Museumsdorf Düppel e. V., and Förderkreis Museum Knoblauchhaus e. V., media representatives with a valid press card. **Humboldt Forum Ticket** 15 euros | 7 euros (with proof of reduction) From 3 October 2025 to 12 July 2026, the Humboldt Forum ticket will also be valid at the Knoblauchhaus Museum. It can be purchased at the Humboldt Forum ticket office on site or online at the [Humboldt Forum ticket shop](https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/visit/admission-and-tickets/). - [ ![Das Museum Knoblauchhaus bei Nacht.](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/museum-knoblauchhaus-bei-nacht-300x200.jpg) ### Museum Knoblauchhaus Berliner Leben im Biedermeier More ](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/museum/museum-knoblauchhaus)