Schloss Bau Meister

Hailed in his own lifetime as the “Northern Michelangelo”, Andreas Schlüter (1659/60 – 1714) was a baroque artist par excellence. Like the Italian master before him, Schlüter worked not only as a sculptor but also as an architect and designer of complex interior decorations that provided Berlin-Cölln, the burgeoning electoral seat, with its first sheen of European glamour.

To mark the 300th anniversary of Schlüter’s death, the Bode-Museum on the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) has put together the first-ever comprehensive exhibition on this important Berlin artist, a show that also includes items on loan from abroad.

The exhibition addresses all aspects of Andreas Schlüter’s varied career. Consisting of 230 objects ranging from sculpture, paintings and drawings to architectural sculpture and hand-crafted works, the exhibition resurrects the old, baroque centre of Berlin and allows Schlüter’s works to be seen in relation to those of his Italian and French influences, artists such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francois Girardon.

The show is also very timely, coinciding with the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace, which was built to plans drawn up by Schlüter.