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THE BUILDING King Ludwig I Of Bavaria (1825-1848) ordered Leo Von Klenze to erect the gallery for the Wittelsbach collection in 1826. The museum galleries were designed to display Rubens' "Last Judgment", one of the largest canvasses ever painted. Very modern in its day, the building became exemplary for museum buildings in Germany and all of Europe after its inauguration in 1836, and thus became a model for new galleries in Rome , St Petersburg , Brussels and Kassel . The museum building was severely damaged by bombing in World War II but was reconstructed and reopened to the public in the late 1950s. Unfortunately the ornate, pre-war interior has not been restored. HISTORY The collection was begun by William IV (1508-1550) who ordered important contemporary painters to create several history paintings. Elector Maximilian I (1597-1651) acquired paintings especially of Albrecht Dürer . Maximilian's grandson Maximilian II Emanuel (1679-1726) purchased a lot of Dutch and Flemish paintings when he was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands . Also his cousin Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1690-1716) collected Netherlandish paintings. After the reunion of Bavaria and the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim , Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution. With the Secularisation many paintings from churches and former monasteries entered into state hands. King Ludwig I of Bavaria collected especially Early German and Early Dutch paintings but also masterpieces of the Italian renaissance. The passion of the Wittelsbach rulers for some painters has caused the collection's incomparable excellence but also its definite weakness in some areas of collector's interest. To fill the gaps the Pinakothek has acquired especially paintings of the 18th century since the 1960ies, for example loaned paintings from two Bavarian banks have been integrated into the collection, including, among other works, Lancret's "The Bird Cage" and Boucher's "Madame Pompadour." COLLECTION "Oswolt Krel"]] The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Painting Collections which own also an expanded collection of several thousand European paintings from the 13th to 18th century. Especially its collection of Early Italian, Old German, Old Dutch and Flemish paintings belongs to the most important in the world. More than 800 paintings are exhibited in the Old Pinakothek. Due to limited space in the building some associated galleries throughout Bavaria such as the baroque gallery in Schleissheim Palace display also the Old Masters.
:Among many others the Pinakothek shows works of ("SS. Erasmus und Maurice"), Michael Pacher ("Altar of the Church Fathers"), Hans Von Aachen ("The Triumph of Truth"), Adam Elsheimer ("The Flight into Egypt"), Johann Liss ("Death of Cleopatra")
:One of the most impressive collection worldwide especially for early Netherlandish paintings with masterpieces for example of Rogier Van Der Weyden ("Columba Altar"), Dieric Bouts ("Ecce Agnus Dei"), Lucas Van Leyden ("Virgin and Child with Mary Magdalen and a Donor"), Hieronymus Bosch (" Fragment From The Last Judgment "), Rembrandt Van Rijn ("The Deposition", "The Holy Family"), Frans Hals ("Portrait of Willem Croes"), Pieter Lastman ("Odysseus and Nausikaa"), Carel Fabritius ("Self-Portrait"), Gerard Terborch ("The Flea-Catcher (Boy with His Dog)") and Jacob Van Ruisdael ("Torrent with Oak Trees")
:The collection contains masterpieces of painters like Jan Mabuse ("Danae"), Pieter Brueghel The Elder ("Harbour Scene with Christ Preaching"), Hans Memling ("The Seven Joys of the Virgin" ), Rogier Van Der Weyden ("Columba-Altar"), Jan Brueghel The Elder ("Harbour Scene with Christ Preaching"), Peter Paul Rubens (" Rubens And Isabella Brant In The Honeysuckle Bower ") ("The Fall of the Damned") ("The Big Last Judgment"), Van Dyck ("Self-Portrait", "Susanna and the Elders"), Jacob Jordaens ("Satyr with Peasants") and Adriaen Brouwer ("Village Barbar's Shop"). The Rubens Collection is the largest one worldwide. "Virgin and Child (The Madonna with the Carnation)"]]
:The Italian Gothic paintings are the oldest of the gallery, among them Giotto's famous "The Last Supper", then all Schools of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting are represented with works of Fra Angelico ("Entombment of Christ"), Sandro Botticelli (" Lamentation Of Christ "), Fra Filippo Lippi ("The Annunciation"), Lorenzo Lotto ("The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine"), Raphael (" The Canigiani Holy Family ") (" Madonna Della Tenda "), (" Madonna Tempi "), Leonardo Da Vinci ("Virgin and Child"), Antonello Da Messina (" Annunciata "), Titian ("Vanity") ("Charles V"), Tintoretto ("Christ in the House of Mary and Martha"), Guido Reni ("The Assumption of the Virgin"), Luca Giordano ("A cynical philosopher"), Tiepolo ("The Adoration of the Kings"), Francesco Guardi ("Regatta on the Canale della Guidecca"), Canaletto ("Piazetta in Venice") and others.
:In spite of the close relationship of the Wittelsbach to France it is the second smallest section with works for example of Claude Lorrain ("The Expulsion of Hagar"), Nicolas Poussin ("Midas and Bacchus"), François Boucher ("Madame de Pompadour") ("Reclining Girl"), Nicolas Lancret ("The Bird Cage"), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ("Woman Cleaning Turnips"), Maurice-Quentin De La Tour ("Mademoiselle Ferrand Meditating on Newton"), Claude Joseph Vernet ("Eastern Harbour at Dawn") and Jean-Honoré Fragonard ("Girl with Dog").
:Though this is the smallest section all masters are represented, such as El Greco ("The Disrobing of Christ"), De La Cruz ("Infant Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain"), Velazquez ("Young Spanish Gentleman"), Jusepe De Ribera ("Saint Bartholomew"), Zurbarán ("The Entombment of St. Catharine of Alexandria on Mount Sinai") and Murillo ("Baggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon"). The paintings of Francisco De Goya were moved into the New Pinakothek . EXTERNAL LINKS GALLERY |
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