History of the Collection
With a permanent sculpture exhibition in the Albertinum, Dresden, like Paris, is home to masterworks such as Auguste Rodin’s Thinker and Edgar Degas’s Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer. In fact, the Dresden Skulpturensammlung was the first German museum to acquire a work by Auguste Rodin. Georg Treu, directing the museum from 1882 to 1915, was in close contact with Rodin and purchased his bronze Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose directly from the French artist’s studio in 1894.