Duke Anton Ulrich Museum

The Duke Anton Ulrich Museum, located in Braunschweig, is the repository of Germany’s largest art collection.

The museum is named after a major collector and philanthropist, thanks to whom the museum was born in 1754.

The modern museum building was built in 1887 by architect Oscar Sommer. The art gallery offers an overview of European painting of the XV-XVIII centuries. The most complete is the collection of German painting, which includes the works of the most famous artists of Germany of the XVI-XVII centuries: Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans von Aachen and many others. You can also get acquainted with Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, which is represented by the works of Giorgione, Palma Vecchio, Paolo Vero-nese, Jacopo Tintoretto, Orazio Gentileschi, Bernardo Cavalli-no, Mattia Preti. In the museum you can see the paintings of three titans of Flemish painting – Jacob Jordaens, Peter Paul Rubens and Antonis Van Dyck. Halls of Dutch painting acquaint visitors with the works of artists of the Northern Renaissance and the Golden Age. Undoubtedly, visitors will be interested in a small collection of paintings by French painters – Simon Vuz, Hyacinth Rigault, Nicolas de Largiliere, Francois Boucher, Jean Baptiste Grez.

The museum also houses a collection of engravings, numbering more than 100 LLC works, about 10,000 drawings, a collection of decorative and applied arts.