DRESDEN.- "I am delighted to welcome Dr. Hartwig Fischer as the new Director General of the Sächsische Kunstsammlungen Dresden," said saxon State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Sabine von Schorlemer, of the personnel decision. "With him we have found an extremely experienced, competent and committed person, who continue the great tradition of care of the Saxony and successfully promote the hitherto extraordinary development of the Sächsische Kunstsammlungen Dresden in the coming years.

The current director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Dr. Hartwig Fischer is the new Director General of the Sächsische Kunstsammlungen Dresden. He starts his job in early 2012. With a doctorate in art historian Hartwig Fischer, born in 1962 in Hamburg, since 2006 director of the Museum Folkwang.

The future CEO Hartwig Fischer explains: "The Sächsische Kunstsammlungen Dresden is one of the greatest European museum complexes with unique collections in unique buildings. I have watched with admiration in the last few years the development of this institution and I feel it now as a special honor to be entrusted with their management. I look forward to the many development tasks and intensive work with colleagues in Saxony and with partners at home and abroad. To shape the future of the State Art Collections in Dresden, is a wonderful challenge. "

The Sächsische Kunstsammlungen Dresden, with their total of 12 museums among the most important and oldest museum associations in the world. Emerged they are from the 16th Century-scale collections of the Saxon electors, mainly from the Residenzschloss in Dresden Kunstkammer furnished, and represent 450 years history of Saxony.