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Lindenau museum

Lindenau museum
Lindenau museum

Lindenau museum is an art museum in Altenburg, Germany.

About Lindenau museum

The Lindenau-Museum is an art museum in Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany. It originated as the house-museum of baron and collector Bernhard August von Lindenau. The building was completed in 1876.

The museum's main attraction is its collection of Italian paintings from the late Gothic and early Renaissance age (13th–15th centuries), which are among the largest outside Italy. The artworks include Filippo Lippi's St. Jerome in Penance, Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of Caterina Sforza and a predella panel by Fra Angelico. It also keeps ancient antiquities and modern works, and has a library.

Additionally, there are collections of paintings primarily from the 16th to 19th centuries and asw well the 20th century, that were created in German, Italy, Netherlands and France.

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Founded
1876

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