KUNSTRAUM KRAUT
The Berlin court sculptor and court architect Johann Georg Glume (1679-1765) completed the burial chapel in the Nikolaikirche for the entrepreneur, banker and minister Johann Andreas von Kraut (1661-1723) around 1725. Until its destruction in the Second World War, it was considered "the best Baroque monument of its kind in Berlin and Brandenburg" (R. Borrmann, 1893). The mural "Christ at the Moment of Resurrection" (according to Matthew, ch. 28) occupied a central position in the pictorial programme of this synthesis of the arts consisting of architecture, sculpture and painting. Although the chapel was partially restored in the 1980s, the mural was completely lost. As part of the KUNSTRAUM KRAUT project, changing pictorial interpretations of the theme of the resurrection have been on display at the historic site since June 2021.