Current Exhibitions

Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Presentation of the Collection

Painting and Sculpture from Late Romanticism to Historicism

Hans Unger , Mutter und Kind, um 1910, Öltempera auf Holz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Foto: PUNCTUM/Bertram Kober

When Symbolism emerged in the mid-19th century, it was less an artistic style than a state of mind, that accompanied the upheavals of industrialization. The philosophical end ofreligion propagated by Nietzsche was opposed by several new tendencies in the fine arts, such as mysticism, symbolism and a strict academicism that grew out of historicismand romanticism. On the other hand, realism and naturalism in particular became the signboards and distinctive marks of a social consciousness. In ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
24. Apr 2022 – 25. Jun 2023

Classical Modernism Painting and Sculpture – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Expressionism

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Küchenfenster, 1932, Öl auf leinwand, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Foto: Jürgen Seidel  © VG BIld-Kunst, Bonn 2022

Since its foundation in 1920, the programmatic self-image of the Chemnitz Art Collections has been focused on contemporary art. This selection shows, in addition to the Gallery of Modern Art on the top floor and the exhibition »Brücke and Blauer Reiter«, further representative works of Classical Modern Art; including works by Heinrich Campendonk, Lyonel Feininger, Max Beckmann, Carl Hofer, Gabriele Münter and, exemplarily, contemporary artists. The first director of the museum, Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand, had a ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
23. Oct 2022 – 2. Jul 2023

Sound of the Big City

2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the German Empire, which existed from 1871 to 1918 / 1919. It was during this period that the town of Chemnitz was transformed into a Saxon industrial metropolis, a development driven by an unimaginable momentum. With 100,000 inhabitants in 1883, the town formally crossed the threshold to become a city or »Großstadt«– by 1900 that number had increased in ten-year increments by another 100,000 people. Chemnitz had become ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
5. Mar 2023 – 2. Jul 2023

Life paths

Gustav Schaffer, Die Mutter, 1926, Öl auf Leinwand, 98 x 81 cm, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Foto: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

The main focus of the exhibition is on the continuities, upheavals and contradictions involved in artists‘ pathways through life, from the Weimar Republic via the Nazi era to the beginnings of the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic. The point of departure are works by representatives of New Objectivity from our own holdings, featuring Rudolf Bergander, Otto Dix, Lea Grundig, Wilhelm Rudolph, Gustav Schaffer and Martha Schrag. During the National Socialist period, their lives ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
Presentation of the Collection

Gothic Sculpture in Saxony

Heiliges Grab aus der Jakobikirche, Chemnitz, um 1480/1520, Holz, farbig gefasst und vergoldet, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/Schloßbergmuseum, Foto: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/Schloßbergmuseum/May Voigt

Thanks to the generous conceptual approach of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the unique collection of Gothic Sculpture in Saxony has been on display at the Schloßbergmuseum in Chemnitz since 21 June 2009.

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