Albertinum
Former arsenal turned art museum, with Romantic-to-contemporary painting, sculpture and a flood-proof art ark.
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This guide to the Albertinum in Dresden starts beneath the steel box hanging over its roofed courtyard and follows the money behind it. It turns on the summer of two thousand two, when the Elbe reached the museum's basement storerooms and its director went looking for help. You'll meet Gerhard Richter, the Dresden-born painter who had left East Germany decades earlier, and a crowd of fellow artists. Best heard standing in the atrium, looking up.
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