The painted interior of the round tower room at the royal manor on Peacock Island imitates a hut made of bamboo and palms. The painted scenic views depict a fictive landscape resembling those found in
Between 1686 and 1689 the glassmaker and alchemist Johann Kunckel produced coloured glass beads in his glassworks on Peacock Island. The deed from the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg, which
One of the most unusual objects in the collections housed at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens of Berlin-Brandenburg is an almost 2.90-metre-high bronze incense urn on the lawn near the Chinese House i
The Palm House on Peacock Island was built from 1829 to 1831 according to designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It was made of glass and wood and was designed in a style that was partly Indian and partl
The story of the rape of the married and virtuous Lucretia by the king's son Tarquinius, her rebellion against her attacker and her subsequent suicide is part of the founding myth of the Roman Republi
The SPSG’s treatment of objects and concepts with colonial reference The discussion on the consequences of colonialism with regard to European collections and museums is not new. A basic question in a
During their trip to America from 1799 to 1804, Alexander von Humboldt and his French colleague Aimé Bonpland spent several days at Mount Chimborazo in what is now Ecuador. In the foreground of the pa
This portrait of Margrave Karl Friedrich Albrecht (1705–1762), painted around 1745, shows a composition that was frequently used at the time: the ruling nobleman – usually the person who commissioned
