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86 Section 3. BERLIN. National Gallery:
in the gardens near the Museum. In front, by the fountain: Max
Kruse, Messenger bringing the news of the victory of Marathon.
To the left: * Louis Tuaillon, Amazon on horseback; Heinrich
Baucke, Victorious barbarian; Karl Janssen, Woman breaking
stone; Louis Sussniann-Hellboi-n, Drunken Faun. To the right:
Max Klein, Fountain-group (marble); August Kraus, Ball-thrower;
Nikolaus Friedrich, Archer; Erich Hosel, Hun on horseback;
Adolf Briltt, Saved.
The collection in the National Gallery, the nucleus of which
was formed by 262 pictures bequeathed by Consul J. H. Wagener
(d. 1861), now contains more than 1100 paintings and cartoons,
233 sculptures, and 30,000 drawings and water-colours; all by
masters, chiefly German, of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The entrance is under the outside flight of steps.
First Floor.
Vestibule. Marble sculptures: 46. Albert Wolff, Dionysos and
Cupid; 111. Tieck and Wittig, Schinkel; 49. E. Herter, Dying
Achilles. Paintings (to the right): 272. Gustav Richter, The daughter.
of Jairus; 24. Bendeman.n, Babylonian Captivity. — To the left is
the staircase to the second floor (p. 89); the door in the middle
leads to the —
Transverse Corridor. Paintings: to the right, 667. Bruno Pigl-
liein, Moritur in Deo; 520. Karl Becker, Carnival in the Doge's Palace
at Venice; 485. Eduard von Gebhardt, Ascension.
Bronze Sculptures, beginning to the left of the entrance to
Room VII: 67. Johannes G'dtz, Boy balancing himself; 35. Robert
Tobereutz, Shepherd reposing; *108. Adolf v. Hildebrand, Arnold
Bbcklin, the painter; 8. August Kiss, Return from the hunt (high
relief); 107. A. v. Hildebrand, General Bseyer; 119. Fritz Klimsch,
Dancing girl; 221. Ludwig Vordermeyer, Cock. — In the middle:
37. Leopold Ran, Youth and sphinx; *152. Hugo Lederer, Bowl
with centaurs; 38. Leopold Rau, Nature giving and refusing; 121.
August Gaul, Two pelicans; 225. Wilhelm Zilgel, Pelican; above,
117. Theodor von Gosen, Violin - player; 141. Gustav Blaeser,
Statuette of K. Fr. Lessing, the painter; 122. Ernst Moritz Geyger,
Youth with mirror; *82. Franz Stuck, Athlete. — 126. Nicolaus
Geyger, Head of an old woman : 88. Rudolf Maison, Roman augur
(painted terracotta); 84. Georg Busch, Girl praying (wood); 217.
Ignatius Taschner, Parsifal; 51. Karl Schliiter, Portrait-bust of
his wife; 166. E. M. Geyger, Ideal bust; 145. Hermann Prell,
Prometheus. — In the middle: 30. Theodor Kalide, Bacchante on
a panther (marble); — 179. Christian Ranch, Bust of Staegemann;
25. Reinhold Begas, Mercury and Psyche (marble); 65. Ranch,
P. C. W. Beuth. The rooms to the left of this hall contain the
sculptures in marble (p. 88), those to the right the paintings.