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  • Chodowiecki portrays the Prince-Primate, Danzig 1773. Collotype from: From Berlin to Danzig. An artist’s journey in the year 1773 by Daniel Chodowiecki.

    Daniel Chodowiecki - The Polonica

    The Danzig-born illustrator also created works with Polish themes.

  • Tadeusz Nowakowski, ca. 1950.

    Tadeusz Nowakowski

    Tadeusz Nowakowski (1917-1996) was an exile Polish writer who lived and worked in Germany till the end of the Cold War.

  • Alice Bota with Ukrainian forces in Artemivsk (East Ukraine). 2016.

    Alice Bota – a “New German”

    When a young person has to change not only the place where they live, but also their country, their language, their surroundings and their familiar environment, things are somewhat shaky at the start.

  • Karol Broniatowski, exhibition in the Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin 1998.

    Karol Broniatowski – Presence and Absence in Sculpture

    Karol Broniatowski, one of the most important contemporary Polish sculptors, lives in Berlin.

  • Julius Ludwig Sebbers (1804–1843): Princess Elisa Radziwiłł, 1835. Lithography based on a water colour.

    A forbidden love – Princess Elisa Radziwiłł and Wilhelm of Prussia

    Princess Elisa Radziwiłł and Wilhelm of Prussia.

  • Stanisław Toegel (1905-1953): Hitleriada Furiosa, Verlag Antoni Markiewicz, Celle 1946.

    Stanisław Toegel

    His caricatures on Hitler’s regime are valuable documents of the post-war period.

  • Tadeusz Borowski, Warsaw 1942. In: Tadeusz Drewnowski, "Ucieczka z kamiennego świata", Warsaw 1992.

    Tadeusz Borowski

    On 25th February 1943, one day after the arrest of his fiancée Maria Rondo, Tadeusz Borowski was arrested by the Gestapo in the house of Maria and Czesław Mankiewicz in the ulica Puławska. For the aut...

  • Thomas Godoj and his band in September 2015 making the music video of “Vermisst du nicht irgendwas” in the “Vernetzungen” exhibition by Danuta Karsten (with Dirk Hupe), in the engine house of the former Scherlebeck colliery in Herten.

    Thomas Godoj

    The DSDS winner in 2008 is now an established rock singer.

  • Zdzisław Nardelli, a photo from the Kraków Photo Workshop “Pro Arte”, pre-1949.

    Zdzisław Nardelli

    In his role as a radio director, writer and poet, Zdzisław (Rudolf) Nardelli was a leading cultural personality in Poland after the end of the Second World War. He was born on 18. October 1913 into an...

  • Hütte am Waldsee, Małgosia Jankowska, 2015, Aquarell, Filzstift auf Papier, 150 x 120 cm.

    Małgosia Jankowska

    Are we looking at feel-good Germany or the forests of Mazovia, with their smell of leaves, mushrooms and melancholy? Małgosia Jankowska, born in Sochaczew, comes from a Polish district full of lakes a...

  • Sonja Ziemann shows Marek Hłasko her world. Probably 1957.

    Sonja Ziemann and Marek Hłasko

    For Germans Sonja Ziemann was “the great film star” and Marek Hłasko was only “her Polish husband”. For Poles he was “the great rebel author” and she was only “his German wife”. The best-known German/...

  • Jan Kiepura, Singer. A portrait in stage costume. 1935

    Jan Kiepura

    “Ob blond, ob braun, ich liebe alle Frau'n!” (“Blondes, brunettes, I love all women”) When this hit song conquered the streets and courtyards of Germany in 1935 Jan Kiepura was at the peak of a worldw...

  • Witold Szalonek, ein Foto für das Musikfestival “Warszawska Jesień” (Warschauer Herbst) 1985

    Witold Szalonek

    His ideas on composition influenced young composers at the Berlin Academy of Arts* for almost 20 years – Professor Witold Szalonek.

  • Roman Lipski, in seinem Atelier in Berlin-Schöneberg (2015).

    Roman Lipski

    His works can be seen in galleries and museums all over the world and even enrich the collection in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

  • The rock group "Rote Gitarren"; 1980 in East Berlin

    Polish Bands in the GDR

    In 1970 the band “Czerwone Gitary” (Red Guitars) gave their first concert in the GDR.

  • Artur Brauner

    Artur Brauner

    Artur Brauner was born in 1918 in Łódź. His parents were Moshe und Brana Brauner. His father was a successful timber merchant. Artur’s original name was Abraham, but as early as his time in primary sc...

  • Duchess Hedwig ca. 1530, unknown painter/ Landshut, Burg Trausitz, Bayrische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, Munich - She is clearly unmarried because her hair is not covered.

    Hedwig Jagiellon (Jadwiga Jagiellonka)

    Every four years over half a million visitors make a pilgrimage to the Bavarian town of Landshut, to witness the “Landshut Royal Wedding”.

  • Andrzej Mniszech (1823-1905): Maksymilian Gierymski. Posthumous portrait, 1878. Oil on wood, 61.5 x 58.5 cm

    Maksymilian Gierymski

    Maksymilian Gierymski (1846-1874) was one of the most outstanding Polish artists in Munich in the second half of the nineteenth century.

  • Wojciech Kossak: The Battle of Zorndorf, 1899, oil on canvas, 270 x 600 cm, Potsdam Museum.

    Wojciech Kossak: The Battle of Zorndorf (1758), 1899

    A few months after the Kraków painter Wojciech Kossak arrived in Berlin in 1895 he wrote to his wife: “I have to make a fortune“. Within a year he managed to find a patron in the form of the German Ka...

  • Katarzyna Myćka

    Katarzyna Myćka

    Katarzyna Myćka’s solo performances on the marimba have been celebrated all around the world. Between the 17th and 26th July 2015 she led the 7th International Katarzyna Myćka Marimba Academy, this ti...