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The Galerie Neue Meister (English: New Masters Gallery) in Dresden, Germany, displays around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today, including works from Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The gallery also exhibits a number of sculptures from the Dresden Sculpture Collection from the same period. The museum's collection grew out of the Old Masters Gallery, for which contemporary works were increasingly purchased after 1843. The New Masters Gallery is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (State Art Collections) of Dresden. It is located in the Albertinum. ==History== The collection began as part of the Dresden Painting Gallery. The purchase of contemporary works, creating the "Modern Department", was stepped up in 1843 under Bernhard von Lindenau, director of the Royal Museums, who personally donated 700 talers each year for this purpose. The Academic Council, responsible for the gallery and the Academy of Fine Arts, also contributed 50 percent of the proceeds from its exhibitions towards new purchases. However, these funds were only enough for limited acquisitions, mostly restricted to German works.〔(Galerie Neue Meister ) www.dresden-und-sachsen.de (Dresden and Saxony tourist website). 〕 Until 1882 the collection contained only four major German Romanticism works; two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and two works by Ludwig Richter. It was subsequently expanded under director Karl Woermann. The gallery first started to buy foreign contemporary works following an international art exhibition in Dresden in 1897.〔 Under Hans Posse, director from 1910, the gallery enlarged its collections of German Romanticism, Impressionism, and late 19th century "Civic Realism" (''Bürgerlicher Realismus''), which are still important today. The gallery was financially strengthened by the founding of the Dresden Museums Association in 1911 and the Patrons Association in 1917.〔 In 1931, the Modern Department of the gallery with paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries moved into a separate building on Brühl's Terrace, laying the foundations for what is now known as the New Masters Gallery. The Nazi campaign against "degenerate art" resulted in the confiscation and sale of 56 paintings, including works by Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Emil Nolde. In the 1945 bombing of Dresden, 196 paintings were destroyed by fire while on a truck.〔〔(Galerie neue Meister und Skulpturensammlung ) Uta Baier, ''Die Welt'', 4 March 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010. 〕 The present-day New Masters Gallery was founded in 1959,〔(Die Entwicklung und Förderung der Galerie Neue Meister durch die GMKD ) ''Gesellschaft für moderne Kunst in Dresden'', self-description. 〕〔(History of the Collection ) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. 〕 and has been housed in the upper rooms of the Albertinum since 1965.〔〔 Subsequently, the gallery was able to retrieve a number of works that had been lost during and after World War II.〔(Renovated Albertinum in Dresden Unites Past and Present in New Exhibition Halls ) Matthias Hiekel, ''ArtDaily'', 20 June 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010. 〕 The floods of 2002 made it necessary to renovate the Albertinum and build a new flood-proof depot.〔 The Albertinum reopened in June 2010 with an enlargement to the "Salzgasse Wing". Its rooms were once occupied by the Green Vault that was moved to the renovated Dresden Castle at that time.〔(Ein Haus der Moderne, das in die Zukunft hineinwachsen will ) Birgit Grimm, ''Sächsische Zeitung'', 20 May 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010. 〕 Special exhibitions of contemporary art are now held there.〔(Albertinum wird teurer - Salzgassenflügel wird Ausstellungsraum ) ''Ad Hoc News'', 7 April 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2010. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galerie Neue Meister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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