By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
POTSDAM, Germany — Some of Claude Monet’s famous water lily paintings are among the impressionist and modern art works that went on show Thursday at a faithfully reconstructed 18th century town house in Potsdam, just outside Berlin.
The Barberini Museum is the brainchild of Hasso Plattner, a co-founder of software company SAP and the owner of the San Jose Sharks.
Plattner initiated the rebuilding of the Palais Barberini, a baroque building that once was a venue for concerts and films but was destroyed in a bombing raid at the end of World War II.