Why don't you stay in Berlin? It's cozy and we could have regular Bernd meetups.
Imagine spending your entire life admiring early netherlandish painting, but you are alone in this. Most people around you like modern cold war art, if they like something at all, and they consider you an oddity.
Then you visit a place that not only people consider early netherlandish painting their cultural heritage, but they appreciate it and go out of their way to study it, see it and cherish it.
How is the image you imagined?
Germans seem to interpret proto renaissance in the low lands as part of their cultural heritage and they went like crazy collecting it. Or am I wrong?
I would love to, but it seems hard to find a place to live in Berlin, either short term or long term. Also to find work...
Maybe in the future?
It feels very bad to be a socially limited Bernd.
I went to the new national gallery right after going to the gemaldegalerie and I was impressed at how modern and contemporary art exhibitions were shit. The building is interesting as a cold war era symbol and propaganda tool, but outside this I fail to understand how people can enjoy modern art without lying to themselves.
The only benefit is that the tourist visa period was doubled. I'm qualified to work in any fintech, I in fact got an offer in my home country for a position and they want me to start day 26, which leaves me very divided, wondering if I'm doing a mistake by going back...
