The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden was designed by Gottfried Semper, who was invited in 1838, as the new gallery wing of the Zwinger. A gallery commission acting for King Frederick Augustus II is the client. Construction ran from 1847 to 1854, and the building opened on September 25, 1855 as the Neues Königliches Museum.
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The gallery closed in 1938, and bombing damaged the building in February 1945. Most paintings were taken to Moscow and Kiev. The gallery reopened in 1960, and about 450 works are still missing. The collection moved to the renovated eastern part in 2016, and the western renovation finished in 2017. About 750 paintings from the 15th to 18th centuries are shown, with over 500,000 visitors a year. The article gives no hours.
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