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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Alte Staatsgalerie
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Location	Stuttgart , Germany
Coordinates	48°46′49″N 9°11′13″E  /  48.7802277778°N 9.186875°E  / 48.7802277778; 9.186875

The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart ( [??taːts.?al???iː ??t?t?a?t] , "State Gallery") is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany , it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie ( New State Gallery ) designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery into one of Europe's leading museums.

Alte Staatsgalerie [ edit ]

Originally, the classicist building of the Alte Staatsgalerie was also the home of the Royal Art School. The building was built in 1843. ^[1] After being severely damaged in World War II, ^[2] it was rebuilt in 1945?1947 and reopened in 1958. ^[3]

It houses the following collections:

• Old German paintings 1300?1550
• Italian paintings 1300?1800
• Dutch paintings 1500?1700
• German paintings of the baroque period
• Art from 1800?1900 ( romanticism , impressionism )

Neue Staatsgalerie [ edit ]

The Neue Staatsgalerie , a controversial ^[4] architectural design by James Stirling , opened on March 9, 1984 on a site right next to the old building. It houses a collection of 20th-century modern art — from Pablo Picasso to Oskar Schlemmer , Joan Miro and Joseph Beuys . The building layout bears resemblance to Schinkel 's Altes Museum , with a series of connected galleries around three sides of a central rotunda. However, the front of the museum is not as symmetrical as the Altes Museum and the traditional configuration is slanted with the entrance set at an angle. ^[5]

Notable works in collection [ edit ]

• Annibale Carracci 's Corpse of Christ (1583?1585)
• Max Beckmann 's Journey on the Fish
• Salvador Dali 's The Raised Instant (1938)
• Otto Dix 's The Match Seller (1920)
• George Grosz 's The Funeral (1918)
• Franz Marc 's The Small Yellow Horses (1912)
• Henri Matisse 's With the Toilet (La Hair-style) (1907)
• Joan Miro 's The Bird with the Calm View, the Wings in Flames (1952)
• Piet Mondrian 's Composition in White, Red and Blue (1936)
• Pablo Picasso 's Tumblers (Mother and Son) (1905), Laufende Frauen am Strand (1922), The Breakfast in the Free One (1961)
• Barnett Newman 's Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue II (1967)
• Works by: Paul Klee , Marc Chagall , Wassily Kandinsky , Willi Baumeister , Gerhard Richter

In 2013, the Staatsgalerie returned Virgin and Child , a 15th-century painting attributed to the Master of Flemalle (1375?1444), to the estate of Max Stern, a German-born Jewish dealer who fled the Nazis and later operated the Dominion Gallery in Montreal. ^[6]

See also [ edit ]

• Max Silberberg

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website