New Pinakothek

The gallery was founded in 1853 by the Bavarian king Ludwig I , who wanted to make his private collection of contemporary art available to the public by placing it in the Old and New Pinakothek. The new Pinakothek is thus the first “collection of contemporary art" in the world. Established at the turn of the century, the border between old and new art has become decisive for German art galleries.

In accordance with the artistic preferences of Ludwig I, initially the majority of the exposition was made by the works of the Munich school of painting and German romantics . Particular attention was paid to South German artists and art schools. However, when erecting the museum, Ludwig also satisfied his dynastic ambitions by exhibiting in the main hall of the New Pinakothek the heroic landscapes of Greece by Karl Rothman , where the son of Ludwig Otto I of Greece ruled. After the death of Ludwig, the collection grew with new well-known paintings, but the situation with the selection of exhibits changed in Munich very slowly.

The situation changed only in 1909 , when the so-called “ Miracles donations ” followed, named after the general director of the Munich State Assembly of Painting Hugo von Tschudi ( German Hugo von Tschudi ), who paid great attention to contemporary French, which was not used at that time artists. Thanks to him, an impressive collection of impressionists appeared in the New Pinakothek. However, in 1938 , Van Gogh 's Self-Portrait was classified as a degenerative art , confiscated, and sold a year later.

The collection of the New Pinakothek is now replenished thanks to voluntary donations and acquisitions and is one of the largest art exhibitions of the late 18th – 19th centuries.

Having rejected several places for the erection of the new gallery building, Ludwig I ordered the construction of the New Pinakothek opposite the Old Pinakothek. The project was created by Friedrich von Gertner and August von Voith . During the Second World War, the building of the New Pinakothek was completely destroyed and soon demolished. The exposition of the New Pinakothek is located in the House of Art .

Only in 1981 did the post - modernist building open, designed by architect Baron Alexander von Branka . Despite the fact that the building, lined with sandstone, with bay windows , emergency staircases and semicircular window arches was taken ambiguously, its magnificent halls with overhead lighting received universal approval. The Dörner Institute is located in the west wing of the New Pinakothek.

Starting January 1, 2019, the New Pinakothek building is closed for reconstruction (the estimated completion date is 2025). The most valuable part of the collection is exhibited in the Old Pinakothek.

Of its funds, consisting of more than 3,000 paintings and 300 sculptures, more than 400 works of art are presented in the permanent exhibition of the New Pinakothek.

The Art of the Second Half of the 18th Century

The collection includes in particular the works of Anton Graf ( “Henry XIII” 1775), Francisco Goya ( “Country Walk” 1776), Angelica Kaufmann ( “Self-portrait” 1784), Jacques Louis David “Portrait of Anna Maria Louise Telusson de Sorsi” 1790) Johann Heinrich Fusli ( "Satan and Death, Redeemed by Sin" 1792-1802), Johann Friedrich Augustus Tischbein ( "Nicolas Shatlen in the Garden" 1791).

English Painting of the Second Half of the 18th Century - 19th Century

Almost all the important artists of England of the 18th-19th centuries are represented in the New Pinakothek: Thomas Gainsborough , William Hogarth , George Stubbs , Joshua Reynolds , Thomas Lawrence , George Romney , Richard Wilson , Henry Reborn , David Wilkie , John Constable , William Turner , William Staunot .

German Romans: Classicists and Nazarenes

The museum features Jacob Philip Hackert , Joseph Anton Koch , Ludwig Richter , Friedrich Overbeck , Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadov , Heinrich Maria von Hess and Peter von Cornelius .

German Romantics

Caspar David Friedrich , Johann Christian Dahl , Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Karl Blechen and others.

Biedermeier

represented in particular by the works of Domenico Quaglio , Franz Xavier Winterhalter , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Moritz von Schwind and Karl Spitzweg .

French Realists and Romantics

Theodore Gericault , Eugene Delacroix , Jean-Francois Millet , Onore Daumier , Gustave Courbet and others.

Historical and genre painting

represented by the works of Wilhelm von Kaulbach , Karl Theodor von Piloti , Franz von Defregger and Hans Makart .

Painting by German artists who worked in Rome (late 18th - early 19th centuries)

Arnold Böcklin , Anselm Feuerbach and Hans Toma .

German Realism

Wilhelm Label , Franz von Lenbach , August Seidel and Adolf Menzel .

German Impressionists

in particular, Max Lieberman , Lovis Corint , Fritz von Ude , Maria Slafona and Max Slefogt .

French Impressionists

presented by the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Edouard Manet , Claude Monet , Paul Cezanne , Paul Gauguin , Camille Pissarro , Edgar Degas , Alfred Sisley , Georges-Pierre Sauer and Vincent van Gogh .

Symbolism , Art Nouveau and painting of the early XX century.

represented in particular by the works of Gustav Klimt , Giovanni Segantini , Fernand Knopf , Paul Signac , Maurice Denis , Henri Toulouse-Lautrec , James Ensor , Ferdinand Hodler , Franz von Stuck , Edouard Vuillard , Edward Munch , Pierre Bonnard and Egon Schiele . Paintings of the 20th century are on display at the Pinakothek of modern times .

Sculpture at the New Pinakothek

The museum displays sculptures from the 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular Bertel Thorvaldsen (Adonis 1802–1832), Antonio Canova (The Statue of Paris 1807–1816), Rudolf Shadov , Auguste Rodin , Max Klinger , Aristide Majol and Pablo Picasso .

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