Exhibition at the Prince’s rooms and the Chamois Room of Branitz Palace Carl Blechen’s landscapes mark a milestone in the development of modern painting. Since 1913, the City of Cottbus has been collecting works by the Cottbus-born artist, his contemporaries, as well as their so-called successors up to modernism. Parts of the Carl Blechen Collection...

The landscape painter Carl Blechen (1798 – 1840) and the landscape gardener Hermann Prince of Pückler-Muskau (1785 – 1871) were contemporaries. Although they probably did not know each other personally, they have two things in common: Blechen spent the first years of his life in Cottbus; Pückler lived in Branitz near Cottbus from 1845. Both...

Permanent exhibition The permanent exhibition Prince Pückler. A European in Branitz provides interesting facts about the history of the mansion and its use and especially about the most prominent landlord, Hermann Prince of Pückler-Muskau, who lived here from 1846 until his death in 1871. Eleven rooms on the main and upper floors provide answers to...