Neue Pinakothek - Munich, Germany
N 48° 08.976 E 011° 34.255
32U E 691216 N 5336124
The Neue Pinakothek is an art museum in Munich, Germany with a focus on European Art of the 18th and 19th century. The museum was founded by the former King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1853.
Waymark Code: WMM1RV
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 07/04/2014
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Designed by architect Alexander Freiherr von Branca the new postmodern building opened in 1981. 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.
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).
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).
Name: Neue Pinakothek
Location:
Barer Straße 29
80799 München
Phone Number: +49.(0)89.23805-195
Web Site: [Web Link]
Agency/Ownership: Public
Hours of operation:
OPENING HOURS
Daily except TUE 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
WED 10.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Admission Fee: 7€
Gift Shop: yes
Cafe/Restaurant: yes
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