By far the most comprehensive artistic testimony were paintings in what immediately became known as the East Side Gallery
This archive article, taken from our feature looking back at the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years later, shows how German culture remained linked when politics broke down
New book explores how the burnt cathedral created a 'profound intellectual rift' between Germany and France, then reconciliation
This comprehensive volume looks at a genre popular in 19th-century Europe but long scorned in the art world
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019
Alexandre Lenoir, the founder of the Musée des Monuments Français
To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”
Is it possible to imagine a blast furnace or a gas holder any other way than as the Bechers saw it—set against a blank and cloudless light-grey sky?
The history of cultural destruction as a propaganda tool
As a touring show opens at Tate Modern, is a rounded picture finally emerging?
Our pick of the exhibitions commemorating the First World War
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
British architect David Chipperfield has pacified both conservatives and progressives with his masterplan for the Museum Island which links the museums by underground tunnels
