The collection of paintings consists of around 1,000 works from different periods, from the 16th to the 20th century, with a focus on the last 150 years. More than 300 artists are represented in the collection with panel paintings. Among the most important pieces in the collection are pictures by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) and Jan Baergert (early 16th century).
17th-century Dutchmen like Jan Miense Molenaer (1610-1668) or Gillis Rombouts (1630-1678), romantics like Caspar Scheuren (1810-1887) and Wilhelm Steuerwald (1815-1871), as well as renowned 19th-century landscape painters such as Friedrich Preller the Younger (1838-1901), Eugen Bracht (1842-1921) or Richard Kaiser (1868-1941) are also part of the collection, as are numerous portraits and a selection of cityscapes of Magdeburg from several centuries.
Hermann Bruse (1904-1953), Heinz Zander (born 1939), Otto Möhwald (1933-2016) and Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927-2004) are just a few of the painters working in the GDR whose pictures were deliberately collected. The estates of regionally significant artists, some of which were quite substantial, have been preserved and processed, including those Adolf Rettelbusch (1858-1943), Marianne Rusche (1878-1959) or Bruno Beye (1895-1976).
You can find selected objects at Museum-Digital.
