The Albertinum Dresden is an important Dresden museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art. It is located in the building of the same name, built in the sixteenth century and originally used as an armory. It preserves a rich collection of modern and contemporary art: the Galerie Neue Meister (picture gallery) and the Skulpturensammlung ab 1800 (the collection of sculptures from 1800 until today). The museum is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the state collection of the Land of Saxony.

The museum exhibits numerous works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is configured as one of the most important museums of modern German art. The main works of the picture gallery concern German romanticism, impressionism and bourgeois realism of the second half of the 19th century. There are about three hundred painters exhibited in the gallery for a total of over three thousand works, dating from the nineteenth century to the contemporary era. Among the works we highlight those of the romantics Caspar David Friedrich and Adrian Ludwig Richter, of the impressionists Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt, of the expressionists Emil Nolde (belonging to the group of Die Brücke) and Otto Dix, (of the group of the New Objectivity), and the contemporaries Neo Rauch and Luc Tuymans. There are also works by Beckmann, Gauguin (with the famous painting "two Tahitian women"), Kirchner, Courbet, Klee, Monet, Munch, Picasso and a work by Vincent van Gogh ("Still life with quinces").

The sculpture collection contains works from the Romantic period to the present day. Many works including paintings and sculptures share the rooms, to invite viewers to make a direct comparison between the two arts of painting and sculpture.