Your 14-Day Art Immersion-Berlin Journey Begins Here!
May 26 - June 9, 2020
BEFORE WE DEPART
Contact Laura or Bradley for additional museum entry fees
Pre-Instruction
Sunday, May 9th, 2020
1-4pm
Location: Winter Street Studios
Meeting 1: Preparing for your trip
1. Recommended Materials - Review
2. Itinerary review
3. Additional fees/expenses
4. Your Questions
5. Liability Waivers
6. Hotel recommendations
7. Introducing Bradley, who will work as our Stage Manager
8. Travel within Berlin: https://www.vbb.de/en/tickets-and-fares/mobile-ticketing
9. Entrance fees (When available, I will organize a "group rate" for best prices and to skip lines.)
Skip The Line Ticket for MUSEUM ISLAND
10. 3-Day Museum Pass (perhaps purchase 2?), or Year Pass.
11. Distribute Student ID's
PDF: Basics of drawing what you see
This will cover the absolute basics of how to see form, value and light perspective.
It is a review of how to go about drawing a scene from life so you have a starting point before your journey.
PDF: Basics of alla Prima
This is for oil and acrylic painters to get down the basics of working wet-into-wet, or direct painting.
This will be a review for some and a starting point for others.
BERLIN ITINERARY (A work in progress)
*Schedules below may alter slightly depending on museum hours
Berlin Itinerary (in-process):
Tuesday, 5/26
Find your home and unpack your luggage
2:00pm - Meet as a group
(Art Store for supplies)
Künstlermagazin
Kastanienallee 33D 10435 Berlin
7:00pm -
Ellen & Derek's place
Greetings, drinks & light bites
Review course curriculum & meet your fellow art travellers
Wednesday, 5/27 - (Drawing)
Museum Island
Drawing from sculptures
Gates of Ishtar
Archeological drawings
Nefertiti bust
(Exact meeting address TBA)
Thursday, 5/28 (Painting and Drawing)
11:00-3:00pm
Bode Museum - Sketching
4:00pm - 7:00pm
En Plein Air Painting - Ballroom Dancing by the river
Bridge overlooking Strandbar Mitte
Monbijou Park 10117
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Dinner/Break
8:20pm - 9:00pm (*Optional - can be scary)
(7 minute walk)
Monsterkabinett
Rosenthaler Str. 39
10178 Berlin
(6 Euros w/Student ID)
Friday, 5/29 (Quick Sketch - Painting)
11:00am -3pm
Charlottenburg Palace Gardens
Meet up at for plein air painting
Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten
Berlin-Brandenburg
Postfach 60 14 62
14414 Potsdam
(1hr 30min travel time via public transportation)
Focus on 3 main objectives:
1. Breaking composition into 4 values (Drawing in Sketchbook)
2. Creating color chart of 4 values with limited palette (Painting in sketchbook)
3. Blocking in a painting (on panel)
(*Optional - perhaps meet for dinner after?)
6pm - 8:30pm
Hackeschen Höfe (Famous alley of murals)
Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin
Meet out front at Cafe Cinema
*Recommended
Neurotitan Bookshop and gallery
Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Saturday, 5/30 (Sketching and Painting)
11am - 1pm
Brücke-Museum / Breucke Museum (€6) - (German expressionist artists from Dresden)
Bussardsteig 9
14195 Berlin
Bus 115, exit at Brücke-Museum/Kunsthaus Dahlem or Pücklerstrasse (approx. 5 min. walk)
OR, Bus X10, exit at Königin-Luise-Strasse/Clayallee (approx. 11 min. walk)
1pm - 2pm
Coffee/Lunch Break
2:15pm - 5:00pm - Painting (Inspired by artwork at Bruecke-Museum)
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8
14195 Berlin
WEBSITE
(Optional - TBA)
7:45pm
Cabaret (NC-17), *formal dress or costume required
Le Pustra's Kabarett der Namenlosen
Tickets will be available online (Approx €32 + seat reservation fee)
Ballhaus Berlin, Chausseestraße 102, 10115
Sunday, 5/31
DAY OFF - See list of optional ideas below itinerary
Monday, 6/1 (Sketching)
10:30am - 2pm
Berlinische Galerie (€7pp, 1st Monday discount)
Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts
Alte Jakobstraße 124 – 128
10969 Berlin
(Degenerate artists in collection)
2pm-3pm
Lunch/Coffee
AFTER LUNCH TBA
Tuesday, 6/2 (Photography & Sketching)
10:30am - 11:45am
Potsdamer Platz (Urban photography/Reflections)
12:15pm (meet up) - 2pm
Berliner Philharmonie (Free concert - 45 minutes)
Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1
10785 Berlin
GERMANY
Tel.: +49 30 254 88-0
2pm-3pm
Lunch
(14 minute travel time)
Optional - Checkpoint Charlie & Museum (without guide, €14,50, audio guide add €5)
Friedrichstraße 43-45
10117 Berlin
(40 minute travel)
5:15pm - 6:15pm
East Side Gallery (Free) - (Photograph)
Mühlenstraße 3-100, 10243 Berlin, Germany
Wednesday, 6/3
DAY OFF
Thursday, 6/4 (Sketching & Painting)
Zoo Berlin
11am - 4pm
Hardenbergplatz 8, 10787 Berlin, Germany
(*Optional - recommended)
8pm - 10pm
"Le Coup" at Theaterkarten Berlin (€34/ticket + 2 drink minimum?)
CHAMÄLEON Theatrein the Hackesche Höfe
Rosenthaler Straße 40/41
10178 Berlin-Mitte
Friday, 6/5 (Sketching)
*10am - 4pm (Meeting time will be assigned/ Step out for lunch as required)
Gemaldegalerie (European Art) - Entrance Fee €10 (Day pass to ALL area museums €16)
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
Getting There:
U-Bahn U2 (Potsdamer Platz)
S-Bahn S1, S2, S25 (Potsdamer Platz)
Bus M29 (Potsdamer Brücke); M41 (Potsdamer Platz Bhf / Voßstraße); M48, M85 (Kulturforum); 200 (Philharmonie)
(5 Minute Walk)
(*Optional)
Musikinstrumenten - Museum (9am - 5pm) - €6 pp, or part of day pass
Tiergartenstraße 1
10785 Berlin
Saturday, 6/6 (Sketching & Photography)
11am-12pm
Holocaust Memorial (No entrance fee. To view the museum, please visit prior to meet up time)
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Cora-Berliner-Straße 1
10117 Berlin
12:15pm - 12:40pm
(8 minute walk)
Brandenburg Gate
Pariser Platz
10117 Berlin
(24 minute travel)
3pm-5pm
KaDeWe (Photos of multiples & Dinner)
Tauentzienstraße 21-24, 10789 Berlin, Germany
Time TBA
(optional) Kino Babylon
Silent film scored by live orchestra
https://babylonberlin.eu
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 1017
U-Bahn: Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
S-Bahn: Alexanderplatz
Bus: 100, 200, 340, 348 Stop: Alexanderplatz8
Sunday, 6/7
TBA
2-4pm - Bearpit Karaoke
Mauerpark Amphitheater
Gleimstraße 55, 10437 Berlin
Or,
Sanssouci Palace - Unesco Heritage Site
Sanssouci Park (TBA)
Zur Historischen Mühle
14469 Potsdam
Monday, 6/8
TBA
Group dinner
Tuesday, 6/9
(*Optional)
Brunch for those still in town
Optional Ideas for days off - click any link for more information:
"Old-timer" pubs in Berlin
Dancehall that may be re-opened by the time we visit.
Visit the 1920's at this link!
Visit more of the 1920's HERE!
Museum Berggruen - (Home of Modern art and 100 Picasso's)
Kathe-Kollwitz Museum
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg - (Surrealist museum)