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Hours Daily 10am-6pm
Location Brühl Terrace,
Transportation Tram: 1, 3, 5, 7, or 8 to Rathenau Platz
Phone 0351/49142000
Web site www.skd-dresden.de
Prices Admission 8€ adults, free for children 15 and under

Review of Albertinum

This imposing imperial structure, which recently underwent extensive renovations, houses one of Germany's great galleries. It's named for the Saxon King Albert, who, between 1884 and 1887, converted this former royal arsenal into a home for a vast collection of art and precious jewelry.

On the upper two floors is the Galerie Neue Meister, a collection of 19th- and 20th-century art and sculpture, from Corot to Otto Dix. We are especially fond of the desolate and haunting landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, the German Romantic artist. Impressionists and post-Impressionists are well represented, including Gauguin, Degas, Manet, Monet, Corinth, Liebermann, Klimt, and van Gogh. Antifascist artists, whose works were either destroyed or banned in the Nazi era, are also on display. In the sculpture collection, the works of more than 5 millenniums are presented, ranging from the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East to virtually all epochs of European artistic developments, dating from the early Middle Ages.

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