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Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Quiz
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  • 1. Who was the first director of the Gemäldegalerie?
A) Gustav Friedrich Waagen
B) Julius Meyer
C) Ludwig Justi
D) Wilhelm von Bode
  • 2. In what year did Wilhelm von Bode's term as director end?
A) 1924
B) 1890
C) 1920
D) 1933
  • 3. Who served as director in West Berlin starting in 1957?
A) Robert Oertel
B) Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann
C) Henning Bock
D) Cornelius Müller Hofstede
  • 4. Who was the director in East Berlin from 1960 until 1990?
A) Jan Kelch
B) Ludwig Justi
C) Irene Geismeier
D) Hans Werner Grohn
  • 5. Who served as director immediately after the reunion from 1990 to 1996?
A) Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
B) Henning Bock
C) Jan Kelch
D) Michael Eissenhauer
  • 6. Who is the current director of the Gemäldegalerie, starting in 2021?
A) Jan Kelch
B) Michael Eissenhauer
C) Dagmar Hirschfelder
D) Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
  • 7. How long did Max Jakob Friedländer serve as director?
A) 12 years
B) 9 years
C) 3 years
D) 5 years
  • 8. Who was the director of the East Berlin gallery between 1957 and 1960?
A) Ludwig Justi
B) Hans Werner Grohn
C) Irene Geismeier
D) Robert Oertel
  • 9. Which director served from 2016 until 2021?
A) Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
B) Jan Kelch
C) Michael Eissenhauer
D) Henning Bock
  • 10. During which years did Karl Koetschau serve as director?
A) 1933 until 1936
B) 1946 until 1957
C) 1924 until 1933
D) 1936 until 1945
  • 11. Who served as director of the West Berlin gallery from 1964 until 1973?
A) Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann
B) Robert Oertel
C) Cornelius Müller Hofstede
D) Henning Bock
  • 12. In what year did Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann's tenure end?
A) 1996
B) 2004
C) 2021
D) 2016
  • 13. In which city is the Gemäldegalerie located?
A) Munich
B) Vienna
C) Berlin
D) Dresden
  • 14. In what year was the current building of the Gemäldegalerie completed?
A) 1830
B) 1992
C) 1998
D) 2012
  • 15. Where in Berlin is the Gemäldegalerie located?
A) Charlottenburg Palace
B) Berlin-Dahlem
C) Kulturforum
D) Museum Island
  • 16. The Gemäldegalerie collection covers European paintings from which centuries?
A) 12th to 20th
B) 11th to 16th
C) 13th to 18th
D) 15th to 19th
  • 17. How many paintings by Johannes Vermeer are in the collection?
A) 10
B) 2
C) 5
D) 1
  • 18. Who designed the current Gemäldegalerie building?
A) Karl Friedrich Schinkel
B) Gustav Friedrich Waagen
C) Wilhelm von Bode
D) Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler
  • 19. What is the central hall of the museum described as by the institution?
A) A lecture theater
B) An industrial storage zone
C) A meditation hall
D) A royal ballroom
  • 20. Which English merchant's collection, acquired in 1821, was a major foundational purchase for the museum?
A) Barthold Suermondt
B) Federico Gentili di Giuseppe
C) Edward Solly
D) Charles Wheeler
  • 21. What caused the destruction of 400 works at the end of World War II?
A) Deterioration in hiding places
B) A fire in a Flak tower
C) Looting by soldiers
D) Allied bombing raids
  • 22. Which of these artists is explicitly mentioned as having five Madonnas in a room at the gallery?
A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Caravaggio
C) Raphael
D) Rembrandt
  • 23. The Gemäldegalerie holds the finest and most comprehensive collection of which national school of art?
A) Spanish
B) French
C) British
D) German
  • 24. What happens to the timeline of the collection as the visitor completes the circuit?
A) It is entirely chronological
B) It moves forward, then backward
C) It is purely reverse chronological
D) It is arranged by artist birthdate only
  • 25. Which painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was restituted to heirs in 1999?
A) Gersaint's Shopsign
B) Sacred Love Versus Profane Love
C) Amor Victorious
D) Rinaldo Abandoning Armida
  • 26. Where is Jean-Antoine Watteau's 'Gersaint's Shopsign' displayed?
A) Charlottenburg Palace
B) The Altes Museum
C) The Bode Museum
D) The main Gemäldegalerie building
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