The Saarland Museum is an art museum in

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

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. It is spread across three sites, each with a different specialism.

Museum in the Palace Church

The Museum in the Palace Church (''Museum in der Schlosskirche'') specialises in religious works from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. It is also notable for its baroque

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ly graves and the colourful windows by

Georg Meistermann Georg Meistermann (June 16, 1911 – June 12, 1990) was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe. From 1930, Meistermann studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Wern ...

. In 2004 the Palace Church was modernised, and connected to the Saarland Museum's ''Old Collection'' by a glass construction on the south side of the

choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

Old Collection

The Old Collection (''Alte Sammlung'') is located in the Kreisständehaus, next to Saarbrücken Palace, and concentrates on artists from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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and

still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

s by 16th- and 17th-century painters such as

Abraham Mignon Abraham Mignon or Minjon (21 June 164027 March 1679), was a still life painter.Abraham Mignon
at the

Joos de Momper Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost de Momper the Younger (1564February5, 1635) was a Flemish landscape painter active in Antwerp between the late 16th century and the early 17th century. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in many of de Momp ...

and

Gillis van Coninxloo Gillis van Coninxloo (now also referred to as Gillis van Coninxloo II but previously referred to as Gillis van Coninxloo III) (24 January 1544 – January 1607) was a Flemish painter of landscapes who played an important role in the development ...

are presented alongside works by later artists such as

Johann Christian von Mannlich Eren Yeager(2 October 1741 – 3 January 1822) was a German painter and architect. Early life, family and education Von Mannlich was born in Strasbourg in 1741, the son of Konrad von Mannlich, court painter to Christian IV, Duke of Zweibr� ...

. The collection is divided thematically into different styles of painting, and also includes a presentation of

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, coins, sculptures and furniture.

Modern Gallery

The Modern Gallery (''Moderne Galerie'') presents art from the 19th century to the present, and is housed in a new building on the opposite bank of the

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, near the

Saarland State Theatre The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

. Temporary exhibitions of classic and contemporary art regularly take place in the exhibition pavilion. The permanent collection includes a large number of works by the American sculptor

Alexander Archipenko Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American ...

. There is also an extensive

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture ...

collection with around 18,000 works on paper, the most important of which include freehand drawings and printed graphics from the

Berlin Secession The Berlin Secession was an art movement established in Germany on May 2, 1898. Formed in reaction to the Association of Berlin Artists, and the restrictions on contemporary art imposed by Kaiser Wilhelm II, 65 artists "seceded," demonstrating ag ...

Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

, and the Informal Art movement. The photography collection includes the estate of Monika von Boch, a student of

Otto Steinert Otto Steinert (12 July 1915 – 3 March 1978) was a German photographer. Life and work Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Steinert was a medical doctor by profession and was self-taught in photography. After World War II, he initially worked for t ...

Provenance research project

Several provenance research projects have been launched to clarify the ownership history of artworks in the collection of the Modern Gallery at the Saarland Museum, with a focus on the Kohl-Weigand collection, and artworks purchased from European art dealers.

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