Museum der Bildenden Künste

Museum der Bildenden Künste and its collection

The Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (Museum der Bildenden Künste) is a museum that, with more than 10,000 m² of exhibition space, is one of the largest exhibition halls in Germany. The collection contains approximately 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphics. It includes works from the late Middle Ages to the present with a focus on Old German and Dutch painting of the 15th to 17th centuries, Italian painting from the 15th to the 18th century, French painting of the 19th century and German painting from the 18th to the 20th century.