Stuttgart State Gallery

The Stuttgart State Gallery - a museum highlight
Are you currently in Stuttgart and staying at our Hotel Stuttgart-Centre? How about a visit to the Stuttgart State Gallery? Here you will not only find masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present day and exciting impressions of German, Italian and Dutch painting. Touching photographs, French prints or installations and modern media art are also part of the museum's extensive collection. As the largest art museum in the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is one of Germany's most renowned museums of international importance. No more monotonous museum visits - experience special moments at the Staatsgalerie: Here you can witness restoration work live in the Wüstenrot Foundation's show workshop or be accompanied on your tour by celebrities from the comedy scene. B&B Hotels can tell you all about this unique museum here.

The museum diversity in Stuttgart

Stuttgart, the Kesselstadt - so called because of its location between forest and vineyards - offers a wide range of cultural institutions. Of course, the city is known for the Mercedes-Benz Museum, the Porsche Museum Stuttgart, the 
State Museums of Natural History, the Art Museum and the Württemberg State Museum. But the Staatsgalerie is also one of the most popular museums. The city's most visited museum houses paintings, sculptures, graphics, photographs and the American avant-garde after 1945, an extensive Oskar Schlemmer archive and one of the largest German collections of works by Pablo Picasso. Other artists include Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Casper David Friedrich and Lucas Cranach. The 12,000 m² of exhibition space is spread across the Alte State Gallergy, the Bok annex, the postmodern building by James Stirling and the Steib-Hallen. All buildings are connected to form a tour.

What is there to see in the Staatsgalerie?

The Staatsgalerie, one of the most important art collections in Germany, invites you on a journey through the epochs of art with exhibitions, collections and interactive projects.
The exhibitions
The Modigliani exhibition juxtaposes the artist's work with that of German artists of the same period and offers a European perspective on the avant-garde. The image of the self-confident woman is deliberately placed in the foreground. Another current exhibition is dedicated to documentary photography (March to June 2024). Since 1994, sponsorship prizes have been awarded every two years in collaboration with the Wüstenrot Foundation. This year, the works focus on questions of collectivization processes and the subject, the body and gender, genealogy and the socio-political conditionality of human beings. Admission is free. From October to spring 2025, further exhibitions are planned on the themes of New Objectivity and Bauhaus as well as the early Renaissance in Venice. Current information can be found on the Staatsgalerie website.
The collections
The fine art collections are the main focus of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Together with the art archives, there are 14 collections comprising classical old masterpieces from 1700 to the 19th century and beyond. In addition to German, Italian and Dutch painting and sculpture, there are graphic collections dating back to the 15th century and modern photography. Tip: With the Stuttcard you get free admission to all Stuttgart museums. Find out more here.

Events in the State Gallery

Events and guided tours take place regularly in the Stirling Building foyer: Whether exciting paintings by Edward Burne-Jones, art talks for women or guided tours on Edvard Munch - families with small children can also take part in a baby tour here. Tip: If you would like to find out the latest news about the museum and discourse in the museum context, you can pick up the free annual Stirling magazine in the foyer.

Art for everyone - the 20th century

Whether Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann or Paul Klee - the collection of 20th century art is diverse: more than 2,500 works can be assigned to the genres of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, sculpture or media art. Classical Modernism forms the focus of the collection and illustrates the European avant-garde with works by Amedeo Modigliani, Egon Schiele and Henri Matisse. The Expressionists Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde and Franz Marc cast a new light on society. From 1945 onwards, American art can be found in the Staatsgalerie with Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. European abstraction can be seen in works by Yves Klein and Willi Baumeister. But the return to representationalism is also represented by 
Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon. In addition to the artists mentioned here, there are of course many other well-known works - discover them for yourself! By the way: the Staatsgalerie is home to the last room that Joseph Beuys himself set up during his lifetime, which aimed to create a new relationship between the work, the viewer and the museum space. We look forward to your visit to the B&B HOTEL!