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The Skulpturensammlung (English: Sculpture Collection) is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections). It is located in the Albertinum in Dresden . The collection of the Dresden Skulpturensammlung ranges in age more than five millennia, from classical antiquity to the art of the Renaissance , Baroque , and ...
The Albertinum was built between 1884 and 1887 by extending a former armoury, or arsenal, that had been constructed between 1559 and 1563 at the same location. [1] 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". [ 1 ]
The museums belonging to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden originated from the collections of the Saxon electors, several of whom were also Kings of Poland. [2] Historical sources show that August I, Elector of Saxony , founded the electoral Kunstkammer (literally “art chamber”) in 1560, a collection of art located in the Dresden ...
In the 1945 bombing of Dresden, 196 paintings were destroyed by fire while on a truck. [1] [2] The present-day New Masters Gallery was founded in 1959, [3] [4] and has been housed in the upper rooms of the Albertinum since 1965. [1] [2] Subsequently, the gallery was able to retrieve a number of works that had been lost during and after World ...
Ernst Hähnel, photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl Maenad and the Panther by Ernst Julius Hähnel 1886, Albertinum, Dres Replacement gravestone for Ernst Hähnel in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden Ernst Julius Hähnel (9 March 1811 – 22 May 1891) was a German sculptor and Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts .
The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection. [1] The first director of the Skulpturensammlung der Städtischen Galerie Frankfurt was Georg Swarzenski . [7] [8] In 1909, Paul Kanold built a gallery wing extension to the villa, that was completed in 1990 by Scheffler and Warschauer. [9] [10]
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The Schloßplatz at night. The Schloßplatz (English: Palace Square or Castle Square) is a city square in the center of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.It gets its name from the Dresdner Schloss, the royal residence of the Electors and Kings of Saxony, which faces the south side of the square.