The Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th century and is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world. Together with the Alte Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne it is part of Munich's "Kunstareal" (the "art area").
The
building
The museum was founded by the former King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1853. The
original building constructed by Friedrich von Gärtner and August
von Voit was destroyed during World War II. The ruin of the Neue
Pinakothek was demolished in 1949. Designed by architect Alexander
Freiherr von Branca the new postmodern building opened in 1981.
History
Ludwig began to collect contemporary art already as crown prince
in 1809 and his collection has been steadily enlarged. When the
museum was founded the separtation to the old masters in the Alte
Pinakothek was fixed with the period shortly before the turn of the
19th century, which has become a prototype for many galleries.
The delimitation to the modern painters displayed in the
Pinakothek der Moderne was later fixed by taking the restart of
Henri Matisse and the Expressionists into account (ca. 1900).
Consequentially a painting of Matisse acquired by the "Tschudi
Contribution" is displayed in the Pinakothek der Moderne. The
so-called Tschudi Contribution in 1905/1914 led to an extraordinary
collection of masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Hugo von Tschudi, general director of the State Collections
acquired 44 paintings, nine sculptures and 22 drawings, mostly from
new French artists. But since public funds could not be used to
purchase these works, Tschudi’s associates came up with the money
from private contributions after his death in 1911.
In 1915 the Neue Pinakothek became the property of the Bavarian
state. A self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh was confiscated in 1938
by the Nazi regime as degenerate art and sold one year later.
Collection
The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Painting
Collections which houses an expanded collection of more than 3.000
European paintings from classicism to art nouveau. About 400
paintings and 50 sculptures of these are exhibited in the New
Pinakothek. Plucked Turkey (1810).]]
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International paintings of the second half of 18th
century:
Among others the gallery exhibits works of Francisco de Goya
(
Plucked Turkey) (
Don José Queraltó as a Spanish Army
doctor), Jacques-Louis David (
Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson,
Comtesse de Sorcy), Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
(
Nicolas Châtelain in the garden) and Anton Graff
(
Heinrich XIII, Graf Reuß).
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English paintings of 18th and early 19th century:
It's one of the largest collections outside the United Kingdom with
masterpieces of Thomas Gainsborough (
Mrs. Thomas Hibbert)
(
Landscape with Shepherd and Flock), William Hogarth
(
Richard Mounteney), John Constable (
View of Dedham Vale
from East Bergholt), Joshua Reynolds (
Captain Philemon
Pownall), David Wilkie (
Reading the Will), Thomas
Lawrence (
The Two Sons of the 1st Earl of Talbot), George
Romney (
Catherine Clements), Richard Wilson (
View of Syon
House Across the Thames near Richmond Gardens), Henry Raeburn
(
Mrs. J. Campbell of Kilberry), George Stubbs (
The
pointer) and J. M. W. Turner (
Ostende).
- German artists of Classicism in Rome
like Friedrich Overbeck (
Italia and Germania), Friedrich
Wilhelm von Schadow (
The Holy Family beneath the Portico),
Heinrich Maria von Hess (
Marchesa Marianna Florenzi), Peter
von Hess (
The Entry of King Othon of Greece into Nauplia)
and Peter von Cornelius (
The three Marys at the Tomb).
with paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (
Garden Bower),
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (
Cathedral Towering over a Town) und
Carl Blechen (
Building of the Devil's Bridge) and others.
The Poor Poet 1839]]
represented by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (
Graf
Jenison-Walworth), Carl Spitzweg (
The Poor Poet) ,
Moritz von Schwind (
A Symphony) and Ferdinand Georg
Waldmüller (
Young Peasant Woman with Three Children at the
Window).
- French Realism and French Romanticism
with Eugène Delacroix (
Clorinda Rescues Olindo and
Sophronia), Théodore Géricault (
Artillery Train Passing a
Ravine), Gustave Courbet (
Landscape near Maizières),
Jean-François Millet (
Farmer Inserting a Graft on a Tree),
Honoré Daumier (
The Drama) and others.
- Deutschrömer (or German-Romans)
such as Hans von Marées (
Self-Portrait), Arnold Böcklin
(
Pan in the Reeds), Anselm Feuerbach (
Medea) and Hans
Thoma (
Landscape in the Taunus).
with Wilhelm von Kaulbach (
King Ludwig I sourronded by
artists), Karl Theodor von Piloty (
Seni and
Wallenstein), Franz von Defregger (
Das letzte Aufgebot)
and Hans Markart (
Die Falknerin).
like Wilhelm Leibl (
Portrait of Frau Gedon), Franz von
Lenbach (
Aresing Village Street) and Adolph Menzel
(
Living-Room with the Artist's Sister).
especially Max Liebermann (
Boys Bathing), Lovis Corinth
(
Eduard, Count von Keyserling) und Max Slevogt (
The Day's
Work Done).
Luncheon in the Studio 1868.]]
One of the world's leading collections with masterpieces of
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (
Portrait of a Young Woman), Edouard
Manet (
Lucheon in the Studio) (
Monet Painting on His
Studio Boat), Claude Monet (
The Bridge at Argenteuil),
Paul Cézanne (
The Railway Cutting), Paul Gauguin (
The
Birth - Te tamari no atua), Edgar Degas (
Woman Ironing),
Camille Pissarro (
Street in Upper Norwood), Alfred Sisley
(
The Road to Hampton Court), Georges-Pierre Seurat and
Vincent van Gogh (
Sunflowers) (
The Weaver).
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Symbolism and Art Nouveau and early 20th century
represented among others by Giovanni Segantini (
L'aratura),
Gustav Klimt (
Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein), Paul
Signac (
S.Maria della Salute), Maurice Denis (
Gaulish
Goddess of Herds and Flocks), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (
Le
jeune Routy à Céleyran), James Ensor (
Still Life in the
Studio), Edouard Vuillard (
Café Scene), Ferdinand Hodler
(
Tired of Life), Franz von Stuck (
The Sin), Edvard
Munch (
Woman in Red Dress (Street in Aasgaardstrand)),
Walter Crane (
Neptun's horses), Thomas Austen Brown
(
Mademoiselle Plume rouge), Pierre Bonnard (
Lady at the
Mirror) and Egon Schiele (
Agony).
Also sculptures of the 19th century are exhibited, for example
works of Bertel Thorvaldsen (
Adonis), Antonio Canova
(
Paris), Rudolph Schadow (
Woman Tying Her Sandal),
Auguste Rodin (
Crouching Woman (La femme accroupie)), Max
Klinger (
Elsa Asenijeff), Aristide Maillol (
La
Flore), Pablo Picasso (
Le Fou) and others.
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