Germany Guide
Saxony-Anhalt and the Harz
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg
Address: Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5
Opening time: Tues 11am–8.30pm, Wed– Sun 10am–6pm
Price: €5
Telephone: 0345/21 25 90
Website: www.kunstmuseum-moritzburg.de
The stocky Moritzburg citadel dates back to the fifteenth century, though since it was pretty comprehensively destroyed by the Swedes and fire during the Thirty Years' War, most of it is a late nineteenth-century rebuild. Now it's home to Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, a gigantic, three-thousand-item art collection. Various movements from late-Gothic up to GDR art are well represented in both painting and sculpture, but one strong-point is art from the turn of the twentieth century: Expressionism and the socially critical art of Max Leibermann and his contemporaries. Worth a particular look are two paintings actually painted in one of the castle's towers by Bauhaus-member Lyonel Feininger between 1929 and 1931. Known as the Halle-Bilder they are displayed alongside several pieces by other Bauhaus artists including Paul Klee, Hans Reichel and Fritz Winter.