Pariser Platz is a square in the historic center of Berlin, Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of the Unter den Linden. The square is named after the French capital of Paris to commemorate the anti-Napoleon Allies' victory at the Battle of Paris (1814), and is one of the main focal points of the city.
Pariser Platz with the Brandenburg Gate
Entry of Napoleon into Berlin by Charles Meynier depicting Napoleon in Pariser Platz, 1806
The Brandenburg Gate in 1871 with decorations and victorious Prussian troops after the Franco-Prussian War
Pariser Platz in June 1945
The Academy of Arts is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany.
Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz 4 in Berlin, opened 2005, architect Günter Behnisch
Palais Armin, seat of the Academy of Arts 1907–1938
Akademie der Künste (East), circa 1955, in the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus, Robert-Koch-Platz