Museum der Bildenden Künste

The Museum der bildenden Künste is Leipzig's principal fine art museum, tracing its origins to a nineteenth-century art association. Since 2004 it has occupied a striking glass cube in the city centre, whose airy interior courts and stacked galleries surround the visitor with light. The collection spans painting from the late medieval period to the present, with particular strength in German art, works by Caspar David Friedrich and Max Klinger, and Old Netherlandish masters. Klinger's monumental Beethoven sculpture is a celebrated highlight.