Munich - Academy of Art

(Local Name: Akademie der Bildenden Künste) The Academy of Art in Munich, which provides training in painting, graphic art, sculpture and art education, lies at the Siegestor.

This extended range of buildings (230m/755ft in length) with projecting wings, was built between 1874 and 1885 by Gottfried von Neureuther, in the style of the Italian High Renaissance. In a manner typical of the architecture of the Gründerzeit (the period of rapid expansion in the early 1870s) the design is concerned only to achieve an effect of imposing grandeur on the main (south) front.