The Georg Schäfer Museum showcases the most significant private collection of 19th century German art. The industrialist Georg Schäfer from Schweinfurt assembled this unique collection of paintings, drawings and water colours.
The special quality of this collection is due to the combination of valuable single pieces of work with groups of work by famous artists and new discoveries of paintings of lesser-known masters. The highlights of the collection are wood blocks from Carl Spitzweg, Adolph Menzel, Caspar David Friedrich, Georg Ferdinand Waldmüller, Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt. After numerous parts of the collection or works by certain artists from the collection were on show in various exhibitions, the entire collection has now found a home in the museum. The museum ranks alongside the collection of British art in the Tate Gallery, London, or the collections of German art in the National Gallery, Berlin and the Neuen Pinakothek in Munich.