The Neue Pinakothek (, ''New
Pinacotheca
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'') is an
art museum
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in
Munich
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,
Germany
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. Its focus is
European Art of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it 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 Kunstareal (, "art district") is a museum quarter in the city centre of Munich, Germany.
Area of arts
It consists of the three "Pinakotheken" galleries ( Alte Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek and Pinakothek der Moderne), the Glyptothek, the Sta ...
" (the "art area").
The building
The museum was founded by King
Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1853. The original building constructed by
Friedrich von Gärtner and
August von Voit
Richard Jakob August von Voit (17 February 1801 in Wassertrüdingen – 12 December 1870 in Munich) was a German architect specializing in glass and iron structures.
Notable projects
Voit designed the city hall of Annweiler am Trifels ( Rhin ...
was destroyed during
World War II
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. The ruin of the Neue Pinakothek was demolished in 1949.
The building was replaced in the late 20th century. Designed by architect , the new
postmodern building opened in 1981. Its features include arched windows, keystones, bay windows and stairways. It combines a concrete construction with a stone facade design.
History
Ludwig began to collect contemporary art already as crown prince in 1809 and his collection was steadily enlarged. When the museum was founded, the separation 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.
Owing to the personal preference of Ludwig I, the museum initially had a strong focus on paintings of German
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
and the
Munich School. Also dynastic considerations played a role, as Greece had become a
secundogeniture of Bavaria in 1832. In 1834
Carl Rottmann travelled to Greece to prepare for a commission from Ludwig for a cycle of great Greek landscapes. These works were installed in the Neue Pinakothek, where the paintings were given their own hall.
The so-called Tschudi Contribution between 1905 and 1914 brought the Pinokathek an extraordinary collection of masterpieces of
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passa ...
and
Post-Impressionism.
Hugo von Tschudi was dismissed by
Kaiser Wilhelm Kaiser Wilhelm is a common reference to two German emperors:
* Wilhelm I, German Emperor (1797–1888)
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as a penalty for his bringing
Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetism, Synthetist style that were d ...
's ''The Birth of Christ'' into the National Gallery in
Berlin
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. He became the director of the Pinokathek. As general director of the State Collections, Tschudi acquired 44 paintings, nine sculptures, and 22 drawings, mostly from emerging French artists. Since public funds could not be used to purchase these works, Tschudi’s associates raised the money from private contributions after his death in 1911.
The
delimitation to the
modern painters displayed in the Pinakothek der Moderne was later fixed by taking the career of
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
and the
Expressionists into account (ca. 1900). Consequentially a painting of Matisse acquired by the "Tschudi Contribution" is now displayed in the Pinakothek der Moderne.
In 1915, the Neue Pinakothek became the property of the Bavarian state. In 1938 the national Nazi regime under
Adolf Hitler
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confiscated a self-portrait of
Vincent van Gogh, classifying it as
degenerate art, and sold it a 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
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. About 400 paintings and 50 sculptures of these are exhibited in the New Pinakothek.
* International paintings of the second half of the 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'').
* English and Scottish paintings of 18th and early 19th centuries:
:It has masterpieces of
Thomas Gainsborough (portraits of ''Mrs. Thomas Hibbert'' and of ''Thomas Hibbert'') (''Landscape with Shepherd and Flock''),
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-lik ...
(''Richard Mounteney''),
John Constable (''View of Dedham Vale from East Bergholt''),
Joshua Reynolds (''Captain
Philemon Pownall
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''),
David Wilkie (''Reading the Will''),
Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at t ...
(''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
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulen ...
(''Ostende''). The Pinakothek owns five works by Thomas Gainsborough, more than any other European museum outside the British Isles.
* German artists of Classicism in Rome
:like
Friedrich Overbeck
Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter. As a member of the Nazarene movement, he also made four etchings.
Early life and education
Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protes ...
(''Italia and Germania''),
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (''The Holy Family beneath the Portico''),
Heinrich Maria von Hess
Heinrich Maria von Hess (19 April 1798 in Düsseldorf - 29 Märch 1863 in Munich) was a German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement.
Biography
Hess was born at Düsseldorf and brought up to the profession of art by his father, the e ...
(''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'').
*
German Romanticism
:with paintings of
Caspar David Friedrich (
''The Garden Bower''),
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (''Cathedral Towering over a Town''),
Carl Blechen (''Building of the Devil's Bridge'') and others.
*
Biedermeier
: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
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:with
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British ...
(''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
Hans Thoma (2 October 1839 – 7 November 1924) was a German painter.
Biography
Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter ...
(''Landscape in the Taunus'').
*History paintings
:with
Wilhelm von Kaulbach
Wilhelm von Kaulbach (15 October 18057 April 1874) was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Biography
...
('' King Ludwig I surrounded by artists''),
Karl Theodor von Piloty (''Seni and Wallenstein''),
Franz von Defregger (''Das letzte Aufgebot'') and
Hans Makart (''Die Falknerin'').
* German Realism
:like
Wilhelm Leibl (''Portrait of Frau Gedon''),
Franz von Lenbach (''Aresing Village Street'') and
Adolph Menzel (''Living-Room with the Artist's Sister'').
*German Impressionists
:especially
Max Liebermann (''Boys Bathing''),
Lovis Corinth (''Eduard, Count von Keyserling''),
August von Brandis
August Friedrich Carl von Brandis (12 May 1859 in Berlin-Haselhorst - 18 October 1947 in Aachen) was a German impressionist painter, best known for his interiors. He painted Aachen Cathedral in several works.
Biography
August von Brandis cam ...
(''Duchblick'') and
Max Slevogt (''The Day's Work Done'').
*French Impressionists
:One of the world's leading collections with masterpieces of
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (''Portrait of a Young Woman''),
Édouard Manet (''
Luncheon in the Studio
''Luncheon in the Studio'' (or ''The Luncheon'') is an 1868 oil painting by Édouard Manet. Partially a portrait of 16-year-old Léon Leenhoff — the son of Suzanne Leenhoff before her 1863 marriage to Manet, and possibly the son of Manet or Ma ...
'') (''
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''),
Paul Sérusier (''The Laundresses'') and
Vincent van Gogh (''
Sunflowers'') (''The Weaver'').
*Symbolism and Art Nouveau and early 20th century
:represented among others by
Giovanni Segantini
Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by ...
(''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
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the l ...
(''Le jeune Routy à Céleyran''),
James Ensor (''Still Life in the Studio''),
Édouard Vuillard (''Café Scene''),
Ferdinand Hodler (''Tired of Life''),
Franz von Stuck (''
The Sin''),
Edvard Munch
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His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the d ...
(''Woman in Red Dress (Street in Aasgaardstrand)''),
Walter Crane (''Neptune's horses''),
Thomas Austen Brown
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* Thomas th ...
(''Mademoiselle Plume rouge''),
Pierre Bonnard (''Lady at the Mirror'') and
Egon Schiele (''Agony'').
* Sculptures
:Also sculptures of the 19th century are exhibited, for example works of
Bertel Thorvaldsen (''Adonis''),
Antonio Canova (''Paris''),
Rudolph Schadow
Rudolph Schadow (also spelled Ridolfo Schadow; July 9, 1786 – January 31, 1822) was a German sculptor.
Biography
Born in Rome, he had his father, Johann Gottfried Schadow, at Berlin, for his first master.''Encyclopædia Britannica '' 1911
In ...
(''Woman Tying Her Sandal''),
Auguste Rodin (''Crouching Woman (La femme accroupie)''),
Max Klinger (''Elsa Asenijeff''),
Aristide Maillol (''La Flore''),
Pablo Picasso
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(''Le Fou'') and others.
Gallery
File:Goya - Don José Queraltó.jpg, Francisco de Goya —
''Don José Queraltó as a Spanish Army doctor''
File:David98.jpg, Jacques-Louis David —
''Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy''
File:Gainsborough-Mrs. Thomas Hibbert.jpg, Thomas Gainsborough —
''Mrs. Thomas Hibbert''
File:Friedrich Overbeck 008.jpg, Friedrich Overbeck
Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter. As a member of the Nazarene movement, he also made four etchings.
Early life and education
Born in Lübeck, his ancestors for three generations had been Protes ...
—
'' Italia und Germania
Germania ( ; ), also called Magna Germania (English: ''Great Germania''), Germania Libera (English: ''Free Germania''), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman province of the same name, was a large historical region in north ...
''
File:Olinde et Sophronia (Delacroix) Neue Pinakothek 13165.jpg, Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British ...
—
'' Clorinda Rescues Olindo
''Jerusalem Delivered'', also known as ''The Liberation of Jerusalem'' ( it, La Gerusalemme liberata ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade i ...
und Sophronia''
File:Max_Liebermann_Boys_Bathing.jpg, Max Liebermann —
''Boys Bathing''
File:La Seine à Argenteuil.jpg, Claude Monet —
''The Bridge at Argenteuil''
File:Paul Gauguin 062.jpg, Paul Gauguin —
''Te tamari no atua''
File:Paul Cézanne 038.jpg, Paul Cézanne —
''The railway cutting''
File:Vangogh.jpg, Vincent van Gogh —
''Sunflowers''
File:Le jeune Routy à Céleyran.jpg, Toulouse-Lautrec —
''Le jeune Routy à Céleyran''
File:Edvard Munch - Woman in Red Dress (1902-03).jpg, Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, '' The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images.
His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the d ...
—
''Woman in Red Dress (Street in Åsgårdstrand)''
File:Don Quichotte Honoré Daumier.jpg, Honoré Daumier —
'' Don Quichotte and Sancho Pansa'' c. 1868
File:Bertel Thorvaldsen Kopf eines Kriegers ca. 1812-18-1.jpg, Bertel Thorvaldsen—
''Head of a warrior'' c. 1812
File:Auguste Rodin Der Mann mit der zerbrochenen Nase 1863-1.jpg, Auguste Rodin—
''Man with broken nose'' c. 1863
External links
Official website (in English)(depending on your needs, forme
version archived March 29, 2016, may be more useful)
website (in German)*
Lionel Gossman. “Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck’s ‘Italia und Germania.’” American Philosophical Society, 2007.
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