Kunstsammlungen Zwickau

Gurlitt had the Bauhaus in Dessau design and paint the Zwickau museum; this redesign, which was presented to the public in 1926, met with national acclaim.

Gurlitt's successors Sigfried Asche and Rudolf von Arps-Aubert then also acted much more cautiously during the National Socialist era and preferred more innocuous areas of collecting.

An exhibition of works by Max Pechstein and the award of an honorary doctorate to this artist in 1947 can also be seen as a continuation of Gurlitt's efforts for the Zwickau collection.

The only exception was a donation from Fritz Bleyl in 1966, who gave the museum woodcuts by Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in addition to his own works.

The main entrance is on the southern side of the central domed building facing the Festplatz (formerly Hindenburg-Platz, today Platz der Völkerfreundschaft).