BERLIN DAY 4

We travelled back to the West, this time to the plush environs of Charlottenburg. After a bum note of being reprimanded for our lawless ticketless metro actions, we headed with a bruised ego to Schloss Charlottenburg.









We walked around the gardens and indulged in fantasy, imagining what it would be like to wake up in this palace and stroll around this garden before breakfast. Then we were off the Museum Berggreun for Picasso, Matisse and Klee.





Museum Berggreun is a small gallery spread out over three floors with a claean layout and an exxcellent selection of art. The audio guide was both soothing and informative. I took a crazy amount of photos, so I present to you a mini tour....



I loved that it began with African sculptures as reminder of its important to Surrealism.





Henri Matisse- Sauteuse de corde (1952)


Geroges Braque- Nature morte au verre et au journal (1913)


Picasso- Le chevelure (1951)


Picasso- Buste de femme d’apès Cranach le Jeune (II) (1958)


Picasso- Le dormeur (1942)


I love this you can just feel her energy just bounce of the walls.
Picasso-Dora Maar aux ongles verts (1936)


Picasso-Portrait Madame Patri (1918)


Paul Klee- Betrachtung beim Frühstück (1925)- this takes the chicken and the egg debate to whole other level.

We then hopped across the road to what like the Museum Berggreun’s double, the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg (AS student we got to go to both Galleries for 4 euros-incredible). Its equally as good, therefore heres another mini tour....


How many instruments can you spot?




Redon- Le promeneur


Redon- la sphère


The world in the era of the Surrealists


This had us laughing for days after and is now an in joke- I forgot what the importance of this piece is, sorry. Henri Rousseau- La belle and la bête.Hans Belllmer- La poupée(1936-1938).


René Magritte-Gaspard de la nuit.

We walked around Charlottenburg a bit more and spotted the Funkturn, then headed off to the Olympic stadium.



We really wanted to see the place were Hitler tried to show off the physical prowess of the Aryan race but instead got smacked down by Jesse Owens. When we arrived however, we realised that this dark history had been replaced by a naturally mundane reality. As the person at the info desk said when we asked where we could learn more about the 1936 games, ‘the stadium has modernised abit since then’. To describe it as more surburban would have apt judging by the number of mums picking up their kids from football practice.





To cheer ourselves up for the wasted journey we howled over Christian Bales freak out, ‘WHAT DON’T YOU FUCKIN UNDERSTAND?!’ 'YOU AND ME ARE OVER...PROFESSIONALLY!'- Our cheeks and bellies ached all the way to Kreuzberg. First we went to the German technology museum. It was really interactive and a change from wandering around art galleries.





In this museum in Berlin, I played peaking tom in various people‘s windows ....










I love good travel photography. Here is Helmut Schilke’s Faces of India project.






In writing this now, i have only just realised the irony of my camera breaking down while walking around an exhibition on the technology of cameras. So onwards with camera phone pictures/friend's snaps...