Museum of Fine Arts
Leipzig's Museum of Fine Arts reopened in its new purpose-built centre in December 2004. The origins of the museum date back to the founding of the "Leipzig Art Association" by Leipzig art collectors and promoters in 1837.
Art Museums
The term New Leipzig School (Neue Leipziger Schule) refers to a movement in modern German painting that has expanded since the reunification.
The list of painters that are classified in this school are not fixed, but include Neo Rauch, Christoph Ruckhäberle and Matthias Weischer. A significant role in the success of the "New Leipzig School" was played by the gallery owner Gerd Harry Lybke who introduced the works of Rauch in particular to the globally important American art market.
Many painters and galleries associated with the School are based in the "Music District" in the south-western suburbs, and more recently at the Leipzig Cotton Mill in Plagwitz.
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Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art is an exhibition space for contemporary art and a museum for post-art 1945. The permanent collection is presented as a series of changing exhibitions, alongside its permanant collection and exhibitions.
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Leipzig Cotton Mill
Home to the "New Leipzig School." The Leipzig Cotton Mill (Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei), is a former 10 hectare cotton mill, that today has been transformed to art galleries, studios and restaurants.
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G2 Leipzig
Selected artworks from the Hildebrand Collection at the G2 Kunsthalle. The private collection focuses on contemporary painting of the 21st century including drawings, prints, sculptures and other media objects.
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The Kunsthalle der Sparkasse
Displays a mixture of permanent and changing exhibits by local and regional artists. Both the building and art are owned by the savings bank Sparkasse Leipzig.
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Museum of Applied Arts
Today this extensive permanent collection of European and non-European arts and crafts comprise of approximately 230,000 objects from antiquity to the present day.
