Already more than 200,000 visitors!

More than 200,000 visitors have already visited the special exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich,” which has been running since April 19, 2024. Infinite Landscapes” in the Alte Nationalgalerie on Museum Island Berlin.

On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ralph Gleis, director of the Alte Nationalgalerie, and Birgit Verwiebe, curator of the exhibition, together with Sina Jentzsch from the Friends of the Nationalgalerie, welcomed the 200,000 visitor Julia Landmann from Munich with her friend Dylan Furcall from New York.

On the occasion of the 250th birthday of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Alte Nationalgalerie is showing a major exhibition of the work of the most important German Romantic painter for the first time. The exhibition shows over 60 paintings and over 50 drawings by Friedrich from home and abroad, including world-famous icons such as “The Ice Sea” (1823/24), “Chalk Cliffs on Rügen” (1818/1819), “Hünengrave in the Snow” (1807 ) and the “Stages of Life” (1834).

Exhibition view “Caspar David Friedrich. Infinite Landscapes", Monk by the Sea, detail, 1808-1810 / Alte Nationalgalerie, 2024 / (from left to right) Sina Jentzsch, Sintje Guericke, Birgit Verwiebe, Dylan Furcall, Julia Landmann, Ralph Gleis © National Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Image © Romana Eder Grabher