Last summer I went to Berlin and visited the Jewish Museum. I highly recommend it. It is very interesting and profound. There are several portraits in the museum of famous and not so famous German Jews. While I love photos of people there is something amazing about paintings of people. Those that were painted before the advent of photography and are of the same quality, or arguably a much greater quality than a photograph is astounding to me. Below is a small sampling of some of the portraits at the Jewish Museum. Both artists and subjects are long dead but the life and emotion of the painting lives on. And maybe that is what is so profound. That when you look at a painting of a person you don't just see an image, but a life, recreated by the emotions, intellect, and being of the artist. A life that was precious, a life that had its time here on Earth, an example of the miracle of life that is immortalized by the miracle of an artist's ability.
Sorry I don't know who painted the paintings below or who their subjects are, but in the future I will try to pay attention to those details more. And yes the museum did allow photography.
Have a great week!
Love adios and ping on!
Dirk
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