Beneath the Pine Trees

I was in Berlin last week and visited the Brücke-Museum for the last days of their landscape-focused exhibition, 'Art... Beneath Pine Trees'. It was partly curated by landscape architects Atelier Le Balto who have been working for the last five years to revitalise the forest that surrounds the museum. The Grunewald and its lakes are looking lovely at the moment. In my photograph of one of the museum's windows you can see how the building is surrounded by autumn colours. The Brücke-Museum was set up in 1967 by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who had survived the Nazi era when his art was deemed degenerate to become an esteemed professor of painting in West Berlin. It is next to the Kunsthaus Dahlem which also has exhibitions of contemporary art but still, for me, has a sinister feel to it. The building was constructed for Nazi sculptor Arno Breker, who was working on designs for Hitler's planned capital Germania (despite this Breker managed to keep working and receiving commissions after the…