Abstract:

For the Berlin Museums, the memory of May 1945 is linked to the loss of objects from their collections. In the days just before and after the end of the war, two fires in a bunker destroyed countless works of art that had been stored there for safekeeping. Over the course of 1945, large parts of the museum holdings came under control of the Allies. The majority of these works only returned to the then-divided Berlin in the 1950s. The effects of the war and the postwar period on the collections of the Berlin Museums are felt to this day. The Gemäldegalerie lost about four hundred paintings, the Skulpturensammlung a third of its holdings. Among the works that did return, many were severely damaged.

Held at the Bode Museum in 2015, the exhibition The Lost Museum shed light on the historical circumstances of the fires in 1945 and the subsequent fate of the works of art. With the help of plaster casts and photographic reproductions of works in their original size, masterpieces of the Berlin sculpture and painting collections were brought back into public consciousness. The exhibition also explored the ethical and practical problems behind the restoration and presentation of war-damaged art.

摘要：

对于柏林博物馆而言，1945年5月的记忆与藏品丢失有关。在战争结束前后的几天里，一个掩体中的两次大火摧毁了无数艺术品，这些艺术品被保存在那里以作保管。在1945年期间，盟军控制了大部分博物馆资产。这些作品大部分都只是在1950年代回到当时分裂的柏林。直到今天，人们都感受到了战争和战后时期对柏林博物馆收藏的影响。Gemäldegalerie遗失了约四百幅画作，Skulpturensammlung失去了三分之一的藏品。在确实返回的作品中，许多作品遭到了严重破坏。

2015年在博德博物馆举行，展览“失落的博物馆”揭示了1945年大火的历史情况以及随后的艺术品命运。借助石膏模型和原始尺寸作品的摄影复制品，柏林雕塑和绘画收藏的杰作重新唤起了公众的意识。展览还探讨了受战争破坏的艺术品的修复和展示背后的伦理和实践问题。