Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum

I went to the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg Museum as my September museum! I'm still developing my blog-photography skills, so please excuse my noob-ness on that front.

I had heard about this museum from my friends who live in New York, when I told them I lived near the Schloss Charlottenburg they couldn't believe I hadn't been to the museums across the road.

So on a warm Sunday I wandered through the palace grounds over to check out the museum featuring surrealist pieces. I managed to buy my ticket, pick up my free audio guide, and ask if photography was allowed all in German. Then when a man came up to me and asked if cameras were allowed in the museum I chatted to him briefly saying that I was pretty sure it was allowed because I had asked at the desk. Then he asked me where I was from and I told him, it would be far too easy to count that as my conversation with a stranger in German for my 26 before 26 list, but's it's nice to have it there as a fallback if I don't manage to get another one in in the next 11 months!

Admission it 10 euros, 5 for concession tickets (students etc.) and gets you a free audio guide.

There was a series of work that I couldn't get good photos of due to window reflections etc. but I really really liked it, it was called Fantasies About a Found Glove dedicated to the Lady Who Lost It by Max Klinger (1878) and you can check it out here.

The first thing I saw as I walked in was a big Egyptian gateway with hieroglyphics on it. Below are my photos of some of the pieces I liked the most.

The Kalabsha Gate

La mort de Sapho - Gustave Moreau, 1872 (The Death of Sappho)

Untitled - František Kupka, 1907

Le Promeneur, Étude "Bouddha qui marche", ou: Personnage au livre - Odilon Redon, 1890 - 95
(The Wanderer, Study for "Walking Buddha", or: Figure with Book)

Pégase captif - Odilon Redon, 1889 (Captured Pegasus)

Sans titre, ou: Évocation d'une île - Victor Hugo, 1870
(Untitled, or: Evocation of an Island)

Who knew that Victor Hugo was an artist too!? Not me! It is believed that this piece started as a piece of paper underneath other pieces he was working on, and then the lines left behind from going over the edge of the other pieces inspired him to create something of it. I see it.

Qui est ce grand malade... - Max Ernst, 1923/24
(Who is This Tall Sick Man...)

Untitled - Pablo Picasso, 1933

Menu du banquet des amis du roman philosophique - Salvador Dali, 1933
(Menu for the Banquet of the Friends of the Philosophical Novel)

Fantaisie - Georges Hugnet, 1937

Self-Portrait - Hans Bellmer, 1942

Mask: Montserrat Crying - Julio González, 1938/39

There was a special exhibition on Paul Klee's work, to be honest not a lot of it spoke to me, but a few pieces really did.

Red Nuances - Paul Klee, 1921

Dream City - Paul Klee, 1921