Dresden City Art Gallery

[1][2] In 2002, Gisbert Porstmann became the founding director of the Dresden City Art Gallery, which officially opened in 2005.

For many years the fast-growing municipal collections were dispersed in various buildings until they were moved to the rooms around the atrium of the newly constructed city hall on 1 October 1910, where they remained before being relocated again during World War II.

Schmidt's purchases were based on specific art-historical categories and included major works by Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and Lasar Segall.

In celebration of the opening of the Dresden City Art Gallery, ten artists made a first graphic edition available: Franz Ackermann, Katalin Deér, Eberhard Havekost, Sabine Hornig, Kerstin Kartscher, Olaf Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, Manfred Pernice, Thomas Scheibitz, and Silke Wagner.

][citation needed] For storage purposes, a special wooden box was developed in cooperation with the German workshops of Hellerau.

[citation needed] The DREWAG Prize for Contemporary Art promoted artists, who had their life and work center in the city of Dresden or the surrounding area.