The Museum der Bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts) is an important museum in Leipzig. Founded in 1848 on the initiative of the citizens of Leipzig themselves, since 2004 the museum is housed in a modern new building, with an area of over 10,000 square meters, making it one of the largest exhibition spaces in Germany, with over 35 temporary exhibitions organized every year.

The museum holds a rich collection, consisting of about 3500 paintings, 1000 sculptures, and 60,000 graphic works. It includes works from the late Middle Ages to the present day, with a focus on Old German and Dutch painting from the 15th to the 17th centuries, Italian painting from the 15th to the 18th century, French painting from the 19th century and German painting from the 18th to the 18th century. century. The collection contains works by old masters such as Frans Hals and Lucas Cranach the Elder, romantic authors such as Caspar David Friedrich and representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Painting such as Andreas Achenbach. There are also works by numerous French artists such as Corot, Millet, Delacroix, Degas, Monet. In the field of contemporary painting, the Museum mainly preserves works from the Leipzig School with painters such as Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer.