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Once upon a time

This marble Sleeping Beauty has pricked herself with the spindle. Louis Sussmann-Hellborn created the sculpture in 1878 and presented it to the National Gallery. Highly respected in his times the now almost forgotten artist inhabited a representative mansion near the Tiergarten.
The facade of the third building on Museum Island, the National Gallery that houses one of the most beautiful collections of 19th century art, has the appearance of an antique temple, the inside showcases an almost theatrical staircase – and in the vestibule of this museum our fairy-tale princess is sleeping.