Museum der Bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts), Leipzig

Museum der Bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts), Leipzig

The Museum der Bildenden Künste is a museum of fine arts in Leipzig. On 7,000 square meters of display area, 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphical works are shown. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. The museum dates back to the founding of the "Leipzig Art Association" by Leipzig art collectors and promoters in 1837, and had set itself the goal of creating an art museum. On 10 December 1848, the association was able to open the "Städtische Museum" in the first public school on the Moritzbastei. There were issued approximately hundred gathered and donated works of (at that time) contemporary art.

In 1937 the Nazis confiscated 394 paintings and prints mainly of Expressionism in the propaganda campaign Degenerate art. In the night of 4 December 1943, the building was destroyed by a British air raid. Much of the inventory had previously been brought to safety. By the mid-1990s, the city decided to give the museum back their own building. On 4 December 2004, exactly 61 years after the destruction of the "Städtische Museum" on Augustusplatz, opened the new museum at the former Sachsenplatz.
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Sight Name: Museum der Bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts)
Sight Location: Leipzig, Germany (See walking tours in Leipzig)
Sight Type: Museum/Gallery

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