Klassik Stiftung Weimar

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar, based in Weimar, Germany, is one of the country's largest and most significant cultural institutions. Formed on 1 January 2003 from the merger of the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik and the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, it manages more than twenty museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, along with literary and art collections. Its emphasis falls on Weimar Classicism, associated with Goethe and Schiller, though it also covers nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. Paintings listed on its website include works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge, Max Beckmann, Willem Key and Friedrich Preller.