Glass Grottowork in the Dutch Garden
Shortly after construction on the Picture Gallery began to the east of Sanssouci Palace, Frederick II, incognito, undertook a trip to Holland in 1755, where he looked at collection
Potsdam City Palace
The city palace of Potsdam is one of the most striking buildings in the city center. Its present form is the work of the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who designed i
The House of Orange Rondel and the Dutch Garden
Below the Picture Gallery in the Eastern Pleasure Garden is a circular (rondel) area with a fountain basin- encircled by eight marble busts. All of those portrayed are connected wi
Listening to art
Audio tours of the Impressionism show at the Barberini “I don’t paint cows, I paint light effects,” the Dutch artist Willem Maris is said to have said about one o
Wool, wine, visions
A journey through Europe’s crafts in Potsdam Anyone visiting Potsdam is embarking on a time journey through Europe. The palaces and gardens speak of the aspirations of their buil
Potsdam’s former waterway
The Potsdam city canal, about a kilometer and a half in length, was first dug in 1673 to drain the swampy terrain of the Great Elector’s new second residence. From 1722 on, at th
Eindelijk geopend
The exhibition Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland at the Museum Barberini is open! For the first time, Dutch Impressionism from 1850 to 1910 can be experienced in all its f
Palaces. Prussia. Colonial.
On 4 July 2023, the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) is opening the special exhibition “Schlösser. Preußen. Kolonial. Biografien und Sa