Who's who of French artists in focus as a major private art collection goes on show in Berlin

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Journalists walks next to the painting "Place Clichy" from 1867-1947 by Pierre Bonnard during the press preview for the exhibition "The Scharf Collection: Goya Monet Cezanne Bonnard Grosse" at the Alte Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Maryam Majd)

BERLIN – A major German private art collection accumulated over four generations is going on large-scale show for the first time in Berlin, with a who's who of French art of the 19th and 20th centuries at its core.

The Scharf Collection has its roots in a collection started more than a century ago by Otto Gerstenberg, who led a Berlin life insurance company. It's now in the hands of Gerstenberg's great-grandson, René Scharf, and his wife, Ch