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18-624: The Albertinum hosts the New Masters Gallery ( Galerie Neue Meister ) and the Sculpture Collection ( Skulpturensammlung ) of the Dresden State Art Collections . The museum presents both paintings and sculptures from Romanticism to the present, covering a period of some 200 years. The Albertinum was built between 1884 and 1887 by extending a former armoury, or arsenal, that had been constructed between 1559 and 1563 at

36-529: A new synthesis of art, philosophy, and science, by viewing the Middle Ages as a simpler period of integrated culture; however, the German Romantics became aware of the tenuousness of the cultural unity they sought. Late-stage German Romanticism emphasized the tension between the daily world and the irrational and supernatural projections of creative genius. In particular, the critic Heinrich Heine criticized

54-785: A number of sculptures from the Dresden Sculpture Collection from the same period. The museum's collection grew out of the Old Masters Gallery , for which contemporary works were increasingly purchased after 1843. The New Masters Gallery is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (State Art Collections) of Dresden. It is located in the Albertinum . The collection began as part of the Dresden Painting Gallery . The purchase of contemporary works, creating

72-741: The German Confederation of 1815 and the German Empire of 1871. German Romanticism was accordingly rooted in both the quest, epitomized by Baron Joseph von Laßberg , Johann Martin Lappenberg , and the Brothers Grimm , for decolonisation , a distinctly German culture , and national identity , and hostility to certain ideas of The Enlightenment , the French Revolution , the Reign of Terror , and

90-561: The "Modern Department", was stepped up in 1843 under Bernhard von Lindenau , director of the Royal Museums, who personally donated 700 talers each year for this purpose. The Academic Council, responsible for the gallery and the Academy of Fine Arts , also contributed 50 percent of the proceeds from its exhibitions towards new purchases. However, these funds were only enough for limited acquisitions, mostly restricted to German works. Until 1882

108-1172: The 19th century until today. Also shown are works from the Sculpture Collection belonging to the same period. On display are paintings by numerous major artists, including those of the German Romantics Friedrich ( Ships in Harbour, Evening ), and Richter ; the Impressionists Corinth and Slevogt ; and the Expressionist Nolde , including his Brücke works, and Dix from the New Objectivity movement. There are also works by Beckmann , Gauguin , Kirchner , Klee , Modersohn-Becker , Monet , Munch , and one painting by Van Gogh . Rooms are devoted to Georg Baselitz , A.R. Penck and Gerhard Richter . Contemporary artists include Neo Rauch and Luc Tuymans . The Society of Modern Art in Dresden ( Gesellschaft für moderne Kunst in Dresden ), founded in 1994, raises funds for

126-557: The 21st century, are displayed on three floors in exhibition halls with a modern look. [REDACTED] Media related to Albertinum at Wikimedia Commons Galerie Neue Meister The Galerie Neue Meister ( German pronunciation: [ɡaləˈʁiː ˈnɔʏə ˈmaɪstɐ] , New Masters Gallery ) in Dresden , Germany, displays around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today, including works from Otto Dix , Edgar Degas , Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet . The gallery also exhibits

144-568: The Albertinum and build a new flood-proof depot. The Albertinum reopened in June 2010 with an enlargement to the "Salzgasse Wing". Its rooms were once occupied by the Green Vault that was moved to the renovated Dresden Castle at that time. Special exhibitions of contemporary art are now held there. Some 300 paintings out of a collection of about 3,000 works are exhibited in the gallery. They date from

162-652: The Albertinum and building a new flood-proof depository. After closing in 2006, the building was finally reopened on June 20, 2010 as a "house of the modern" with the New Masters Gallery and the Sculpture Collection, "designed for encounters between painting and sculpture, between the Romantic and the Modern". The most important improvement has been the roofing of the inner courtyard to form an atrium , called "an ark for

180-511: The Albertinum was restored by 1953. Besides the Sculpture Collection , the Albertinum has housed the New Masters Gallery ( Galerie Neue Meister ) in the upper rooms since 1965. It was also the temporary postwar home of the Numismatic Cabinet ( Münzkabinett ) and the Green Vault ( Grünes Gewölbe ) until the exhibitions were moved to the rebuilt Dresden Castle in 2002 and 2004, respectively. The floods of 2002 necessitated renovating

198-677: The German variety developed relatively early, and, in the opening years, coincided with Weimar Classicism (1772–1805). The early period, roughly 1797 to 1802, is referred to as Frühromantik or Jena Romanticism . The philosophers and writers central to the movement were Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773–1798), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845), Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (1772–1801). The early German Romantics strove to create

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216-408: The art". Furthermore, the glazed walling of the establishment's depositories gives visitors views of the inner workings of a museum. The Albertinum houses the New Masters Gallery ( Galerie Neue Meister ) and the Sculpture Collection ( Skulpturensammlung ). The holdings of the two museums, with paintings ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Ludwig Richter and sculptures from Auguste Rodin to

234-559: The collection contained only four major German Romanticism works; two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and two works by Ludwig Richter . It was subsequently expanded under director Karl Woermann. The gallery first started to buy foreign contemporary works following an international art exhibition in Dresden in 1897. Under Hans Posse , director from 1910, the gallery enlarged its collections of German Romanticism , Impressionism , and late 19th century "Civic Realism" ( Bürgerlicher Realismus ), which are still important today. The gallery

252-508: The confiscation and sale of 56 paintings, including works by Edvard Munch , Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde . In the 1945 bombing of Dresden , 196 paintings were destroyed by fire while on a truck. The present-day New Masters Gallery was founded in 1959, and has been housed in the upper rooms of the Albertinum since 1965. Subsequently, the gallery was able to retrieve a number of works that had been lost during and after World War II . The floods of 2002 made it necessary to renovate

270-458: The purchase of new works and organises permanent loans to the museum. Through its support, more than 30 works have been acquired and several exhibitions funded. German Romanticism German Romanticism (German: Deutsche Romantik ) was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and criticism. Compared to English Romanticism ,

288-659: The same location. The new building was designed by the regional master builder Carl Adolf Canzler in the Renaissance Revival style to house the royal "Collection of Antique and Modern Sculptures". The building was named after the Saxonian King Albert who reigned at the time. In 1889, the Sculpture Collection was moved in and has since remained there. Damaged in the February 13, 1945 bombing of Dresden in World War II ,

306-513: The tendency of the early German Romantics to look to the medieval Holy Roman Empire for a model of unity in the arts, religion, and society. A major product of the invasion and military occupation, beginning under the First French Republic and continuing under Napoleon , of the traditionally politically and religiously balkanized Germanosphere was the development of Pan-Germanism and romantic nationalism , which eventually created

324-598: Was financially strengthened by the founding of the Dresden Museums Association in 1911 and the Patrons Association in 1917. In 1931, the Modern Department of the gallery with paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries moved into a separate building on Brühl's Terrace , laying the foundations for what is now known as the New Masters Gallery. The Nazi campaign against " degenerate art " resulted in

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