Talking about the Baberini Museum at Potsdam: it also contains the Collection Hasso Plattner. That was news to me.

Mr. Plattner once worked for IBM and later founded SAP together with colleagues. He still is an active member of the board at SAP. But he also restored the building at which said Museum Baberini in Potsdam is located. He is also a known sponsor of the institution. Being aware of this, I wasn’t surprised to find signs leading me toward a “Hasso-Plattner-Collection of Impressionism” in the museum. I expected to find the odd sample of the era, crowned by maybe a Renoir or Monet. Oh my, was I mistaken! Plattner truly is a patron of global format. Flabbergasted I walked by one masterpiece after the next. Storeys full of them, Sisleys beaten by Renoirs beaten by Monets and so forth. Never before have I come across such a density of Impressionism and some Pointillism to top it all off.

Please go and visit this Museum, if you ever get the chance – I hear, the Collection is on permanent display. I will go back, for sure. One can not appreciate all those jewels at once. Just so you get an impression of the impressionist riches: