TOURING the past five months nearly 300,000 visitors have ' tramped through East Berlin's dark, rundown National Gallery to feast their eyes on the cream of one of the world's great art collections: 536 key paintings from Dresden's state art museum, the Gemalde-Galerie (see color pages). Next week the collection will finally come down off the walls to be packed up and shipped back to Dresden for the city's 750th anniversary. There, on June 4, the paintings will at last resume their place in the partially restored art gallery from which they were...
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