Otto gerstenberg biography
Otto Gerstenberg (11 September – 24 April ) was a German entrepreneur, mathematician and an early 20th-century Berlin art collector.!
Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection
Art museum in Berlin
The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (German: Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg) is an art museum in Berlin.
Its collection of paintings, graphics and sculptures, spanning the period from French Romanticism to Surrealism, is currently housed in former rooms of the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg on a ten-year loan.[1] It was founded in 2008, and is part of the National Gallery of Berlin.
Otto Gerstenberg (ur.
The foundation
The works on display are owned by the Foundation of the Dieter Scharf Collection in Remembrance of Otto Gerstenberg. Otto Gerstenberg was an early 20th-century Berlin art collector, whose collection was partly destroyed and partly seized as plunder (ending up in Russian museums) during the war.[2][3] After Gerstenberg's death in 1935, his paintings went to his daughter, Margarete Scharf, who stored most in the bunker of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin during the war.
These were taken to the Sovi