Museum Gunzenhauser

In the location's words:

The Gunzenhauser Museum is the most recent addition to the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and houses the collection of the Munich gallery owner Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser. This comprises over 3,000 works by 270 artists

and focuses on art from the turn of the century around 1900, Expressionism, New Objectivity and 20th century abstraction. The museum is run by the Gunzenhauser Foundation. The collection is housed in a former savings bank building in the New Objectivity style, which was built by Fred Otto between 1928 and 1930 and converted into a museum by Staab Architekten in 2007.

With 380 works by Otto Dix, the museum has one of the world's largest collections of works by this artist. It is also home to one of the most extensive collections of works by the expressionist Alexej von Jawlensky. Other important holdings include works by Willi Baumeister, Gabriele Münter, Conrad Felixmüller, Serge Poliakoff, Uwe Lausen and Johannes Grützke.

The main works in the collection are presented in changing permanent exhibitions. In addition, the museum offers special exhibitions on individual artists

or themes related to the Gunzenhauser Collection. Exhibitions of contemporary art also enrich the program. The museum sees itself not only as a place of preservation and conservation, but also as a space for communication and a source of new ideas.