Neue Galerie

The Neue Galerie (New Gallery) is an art museum in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. It is part of Hessen Kassel Heritage and is located at Schöne Aussicht, overlooking the Karlsaue. The museum presents paintings, sculpture and contemporary art from around 1800 to the present, with holdings drawn from the municipal and state art collections of Kassel. The building was constructed between 1871 and 1877 as a picture gallery for the Kassel collection of Old Masters. After severe damage during the Second World War, the Old Masters collection was moved to Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. The museum reopened in 1976 under its present name with a new focus on art of the 19th and. History Earlier gallery and 19th-century building The building in 1880 A previous gallery building was erected between 1749 and 1752 by François de Cuvilliés for William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel . During the French occupation under Jérôme Bonaparte , it was converted into a city residence. In the 19th century, a new gallery building was commissioned for the Kassel painting collection. It was designed by Heinrich von Dehn-Rotfelser , an architect and professor at the Academy in Kassel, and opened in 1877. The building was conceived as a museum for the Old Masters and housed. Recent exhibitions and collection-based projects In recent years, the Neue Galerie has combined its permanent collection with temporary exhibitions, studio presentations and research-based displays. In 2023 and 2024, the film installation Sebastián Díaz Morales: Smashing Monuments was shown as part of about: documenta . The work reflected on ideas associated with documenta fifteen and the Indonesian collective ruangrupa , including the concept of lumbung , or communal sharing of resources. In 2024, the museum presented research on Caspar David Friedrich 's double-sided moonlight transparency, a rare work in Friedrich's oeuvre designed to be viewed in darkness with backlighting.