Description
Big Poster Bode-Museum Berlin
The Bode-Museum Berlin Poster is vertical (23×56 cm / 9×22 inch) and represents the museum of Bode. Otherwise it’s located on the Museum Island (german: Museum Insel), in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, the site of the old city of Cölln.
I drew this urban sketch on the 25th of May 2010 directly at the location in Berlin-Mitte.
As a technique I applied wash drawing (ink and water). And as artistic tools I used for this illustration:
- a sketch book (Watercolour Paper- fine grain, Format 31 x 22 cm -12,20″ x 8,66″-, 280 g/m2 -140 lb-)
- a calligraphic pen (“Pilot Parallel Pen”- 2.4 mm)
- 2 paint brushes (fine and medium)
I was sitting on a wall by the bank of the Spree river. In the background of the postcard Bode-Museum, we can see the Nikolai-Viertel. So close to the place Alexanderplatz where we recognize the TV tower. In the foreground on the left, a little boy sits on the bank, he was close to me and the river. Indeed it was not so long because I needed around one hour for this urban sketch.
This illustration is also on my blog “Traversée d’Encres”.
Moreover the Bode-Museum is a historically preserved building.
The museum, designed by architect Ernst von Ihne, was completed in 1904. It was originally called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum after Emperor Frederick III. Finally the museum was renamed in honour of its first curator, Wilhelm von Bode, in 1956. Otherwise Museum Island (German: Museumsinsel) is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river. Then it is so called from the complex of five internationally significant museums, all part of the Berlin State Museums: The Altes Museum (Old Museum), The Alte Nationalgalerie, The Pergamon Museum and The Bode Museum in 1999.
Now the museum complex add to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Here the same illustration as postcard.
