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
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
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
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
The sledge’s runners are crowned by the bust of a Black man wearing a turban and star pendant on a gold chain. The object recalls carousels that had been designed for the great princely courts since t
The two paintings called “Brazilian Virgin Forest” (1830) by Johann Moritz Rugendas are among the works created by the so-called “traveling artists” in the 19th century. Following the example of Alexa
Four large-format paintings are on display in the grand staircase of the Old Palace of Charlottenburg Palace, which show us allegories of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. These cont
Ferdinand Bellermann is considered as being one of the 19th-century’s so-called “traveling artists”, who visited Latin America for study purposes in the wake of Alexander von Humboldt. A travel grant
The medallion recalls the first efforts in Brandenburg under Elector Frederick William (1620‒1688) to strengthen overseas trading and to take part in the colonial exploitation of Africa. In September
The two busts do not belong to the original interior design of King Frederick II’s summer palace, built from 1745 to 1747. They replace a similar black portrait pair, also made in polychrome marble, d
The so-called "Tip of the Kilimanjaro" – a small chunk of stone in the Grotto Hall at the New Palace, goes back to the first ascent of this massif by Hans Meyer in 1889. Meyer took a rock sample from
Originally, the busts of four Black men and women were part of the sculptural decoration in the First Rondel at Sanssouci Park . The images were probably created by Italian artists in the second half
