Description of the attraction
The Albertinum is a former royal arsenal, rebuilt in 1880 in the neo-Renaissance style by Karl Adolf Chancellor. It now houses several museums, including an art gallery, which is based on the collection of Bernard von Lindenau donated to the city. The gallery got its name in honor of the King of Saxony Albert.
It contains a rich collection of works from the period of romanticism, realism and works in the Biedermeier style; French, Polish, Hungarian and Belgian painting of the 19th century, works of German Expressionists and Impressionists. Here you can see works by Lovis Corinth and Max Lieberman, Edgar Degas and Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and Edouard Manet.
In Albetinum, you can see collections of sculptures, coins, seals and prints, drawings and graphics by European artists of the 15th-20th centuries and many other interesting exhibits of the world cultural heritage of mankind.
