KUNSTMUSEUM MORITZBURG

The Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, which is in fact the regional art museum of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt, is housed in the castle of the Archbishops of Magdeburg (16th century). It includes six permanent collections devoted to painting, graphics, plastic arts, photography, crafts and design. It includes works by German expressionist painters Gustav Klimt, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Max Beckmann. At the same time, in the west wing of the fortress, a prominent place is given to the Bauhaus master, Lyonel Feininger, who took superb pictures of Halle (the cathedral, the red tower, the arrow of the market square church) from the Moritzburg tower between 1929 and 1931. A work he called Fenster zur Stadt (Fenster zur Stadt in German), which has since remained a reference. As a whole, this museum, which has been skilfully renovated in recent years, looks at the evolution of contemporary art from the 19th century to the present day, with particular emphasis on the periods 1900 to 1945 and 1945 to 1990, the latter being primarily interested in the artistic production of the GDR and the communist bloc, including the creations of Hermann Bachmann, Fritz Baust, Kurt Bunge, Charles Crodel and Albert Ebert.