Brohan Museum of Art Nouveau And Art Deco

Looking for another easy outing, we took the underground out to Chartlottenburg and the Brohan Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Mostly decorative stuff, the collection of one person that later encompassed those of others. It's a small but interesting collection, just fitting our needs. Later, we wandered the environs before heading back home.

Located in one of the 19th century out-buildings of the Charlottenberg
Palace; a later sinister past...read on...

History of the collection(s) [click to enlarge]

Costumery as well as household and decorative stuff

Interesting presentation

Ditto

Guimard designs from Le Metropolitan

Now in the Minimalist section; comfy chair

Last seen at the Pompidou, 2019

Rather little furniture actually...

A reminder that conditions in Germany, 1918-1945...
were not exactly ideal for collecting, preserving...

More Minimalism

Ophiophilist neckwear

The upstairs exhibition concerned graphics and artwork for the
1972 Munich Olympics

Modest recognition of the major event of that Olympics; Germany
has hosted two Olympics I know of, 1936 and 1972...both marred

The sinister bit...the buildings now housing the Brohan and another
museum were used for training of secret police in both the Nazi and
East German eras...above, garden sculpture behind the Brohan

Klaus Barbie's alma mater

Moving right along...down the street; an early Wohnmobil?

Very interesting but apparently disused apartment
building

Interesting older building on the boulevard

And further on...a very interesting Bosch building

Built in the war years, 1915-1916...

Transitional?

Unter Den Linden Sights

By our fourth day, we felt ambitious enough for a stroll to Tiergarten, via Unter den Linden, three miles or so, there and back again, with assorted detours. Some sights along the way...

Street scene from Friedrichstrasse

The Friedrichstadt Palast...gorgeous art deco theater...

Side detail...

Along the river Spree, the famous TV tower rises from Bode Museum

Nearly empty boat tour

The Admirals Palast, another theater; Berlin architecture is already
exceeding our expectations

Doner kebap is really big here

Local fashion

More architecture to look into

William Tell's son slept here?

Another for my collection, Man-hole Covers of the World

Us, there

Reichstag

Strolling in Tiergarten

Ukrainian memorial before the heavily-guarded and cordoned-off

Russian embassy

Street scene

After a panna cotta interlude, we stopped in at the Ampelmann
store, which is, in fact, ground zero Berlin; Ampelmann is the
East Berlin traffic light figure that, in a fit of irrational nostalgia,
Berliners have adopted city-wide

Ampelmanning

Two Markets

Among the things we like best in Europe are the markets, especially in the cities. Berlin has many markets, and in our first few days we took in two: Boxhagener Platz and the Turkish market in Kreuzberg.

At "Boxi," mostly glass and vintage clothing

A gorgeous day, nonetheless

Fake leather-bound Time/Life series on the American
West; in Deutsch, of course

Cousin seen recently on Deep Creek, NC

Recycling vinyl for decorative purposes

The market wraps around a city park block, with playgrounds,
etc.

Outside the playground is the kids' market, where kids and their
moms sell used toys, clothes...

The area around Boxi, about 5km from the centrum,
is a restaurant paradise; this stretch of restaurants,
and nothing but restaurants, goes on for two solid
blocks here, both sides; must be pretty lively in the
evenings...

One doesn't expect to see much art nouveau nor art deco in post-
1945 Berlin; but here and there are interesting surprises...

En route to the Turkish market, kayak class on the canal

At the Turkish market, both sides of a long street on the canal

Not exactly the Grand Bazaar, but a fair representation of Turkish
culture and stuff, to us...clothes, jewelry, food, mostly Turkish

After WWII, Germany had a shortage of workers and so developed
a massive guest-worker program, many, if not most of which were
Turks; we had some prior experience of this, at a Mercedes-Benz
dealer near Gaziantep, whose manager was the son of one of those
guest workers...fluent German, Turkish, and English...and very
kind to American travelers needing an oil change...

The only thing missing was the tea delivery on trays to the merchants

Dress priced in Turkish lira

Lots of food at this market; the longest line, interestingly, was
at this Thai stall; we munched on strudel and baklava, however

True to form, there were many textile stands

A mountain of blueberries; and a very decent market, we thought,
not Belleville in Paris in terms of ethnicity and exotica; but still
worth a visit