German art

Dürer's cultural tradition

German art encompasses visual works produced in German-speaking lands from medieval times to the present.

The tradition includes Dürer's Renaissance prints, Romantic landscapes, Expressionist movements like Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, Bauhaus design, and postwar figures like Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer.

The museum's German art collection spans five centuries.

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Renaissance · Bauhaus · Cubism · Berlin Wall · painting · sculpture · aesthetics · gallery · exhibition · Dadaism · zeitgeist · woodcut · Paul Klee · Weimar Republic · Kandinsky · museum · Munich · altarpiece

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