Museum Georg Schäfer

The Museum Georg Schäfer is a German art museum in Schweinfurt, Bavaria. Based on the private art collection of German industrialist Georg Schäfer (1896–1975), the museum primarily collects 19th-century paintings by artists from German-speaking countries. History Having already inherited a nucleus of 19th-century German and Austrian paintings from his father, in the 1950s Georg Schäfer began actively collecting paintings by old masters and forgotten "lesser" masters which, at that time, were being overlooked by the more conservative regional art centres of Munich, Berlin, Dresden and Vienna. He bought much of the art in the 1950s from dealers in Munich, including from Heinrich Hoffmann , Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, who was deeply involved in Nazi-looted art. As early as 1959, architect Erich Schelling drew up plans for a museum to house. Collection The museum is home to 950 paintings, 270 of which are on constant display. The museum has the world's most comprehensive collection of works by Carl Spitzweg , including 160 paintings and 110 drawings. Other artists represented in the collection are Caspar David Friedrich , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Carl Rottmann , Domenico Quaglio the Younger , Albrecht Adam , Wilhelm von Kobell , Fritz von Uhde , Wilhelm Leibl , Adolph Menzel , Franz von Lenbach , Hans Thoma , Lovis Corinth , Max Liebermann , Max Slevogt , and Max Beckmann .