“Tschudi has now opened his new galleries. It is a great success for him. … All of a sudden, the forgotten names [are] on everyone lips. […]. Visitors stand before the Friedrichs and can’t believe their eyes […].” – Alfred Lichtwark, director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, on the presentation of the collection by Hugo von Tschudi, who became the director of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1896; January 10, 1898, quoted in Lichtwark 1899, p. 7.