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Staatsgalerie, art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, comprising two locations, the Alte (Old) Staatsgalerie and the Neue (New) Staatsgalerie. The Alte Staatsgalerie houses a collection of European art—namely, German Renaissance paintings, Italian paintings from 1300 to 1800, prints, drawings, and photographs. The Neue Staatsgalerie exhibits the museum’s 20th- and 21st-century artworks. (Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on art appreciation.) When the Staatsgalerie, designed in the Neoclassical style by Georg Gottlob Barth, opened in 1843, it was one...