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Old Picture Gallery, Munich Alte Pinakothek

The Alte Pinakothek, one of the world's largest and finest picture galleries, was built by Leo von Klenze between 1826 and 1836, replacing the older gallery by the Hofgarten which had become too small for the steadily increasing Royal Collection. The building was so badly damaged by air attack in 1944-45 that demolition was contemplated; but between 1953 and 1963 it was restored, and the gallery's treasures, which had been stored elsewhere for safety, could again be put on display.
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Important Information:
Official site: www.pinakothek.de/alte-pinakothek/
Address: Barer strasse 27, D-80333 München, Germany
Opening hours: Jan 1 to Dec 31: 10am-5pm; Tue: 10am-8pm; Thu: 10am-8pm; Closed: Mon
Entrance fee in EUR: Adult €5.50, Concession or reduced rate €4.00
Useful tips: Reduced admission on Sunday. Combination tickets available for all three Pinakothek museums.
Discount: Sunday
Transit: U-Bahn: U2 (Konigsplatz); Tram: 18 (Schellingstr.).
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This "masterpiece of architectural proportion" (Wölfflin) is modeled on the Renaissance palaces of Venice. It was the largest gallery built in the first half of the 19th century and as such became the model for others in Rome and Brussels. It is a massive structure, 127m/417ft long with short side wings (37m/121ft from front to rear). The 24 statues (by Ludwig Schwanthaler) of famous painters on the south front and the frescoes (by Peter Cornelius) in the interior were destroyed in the wartime bombing.
Further restoration work was carried out in the late 1970s.

Old Picture Gallery Highlights

Flemish and Dutch Paintings

The collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
16th/17th centuries (XII-XII, 19-23):
Cornelius van Dalem, "Landscape with a Farm"
Marinus van Reymerswaele, "A Tax Collector and his Wife"
Jan Brueghel the Elder, "Bunch of Flowers"
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, "Land of Cockayne", "Head of an Old Peasant Woman"

Italian Paintings

The collection of Italian paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
14th-18th centuries (1V, V, X, XIIb, 1-6, 23):
Giotto, "The Last Supper" (fragment of an altar panel with various scenes from the life of Christ), after 1306.
Leonardo da Vinci, "Virgin and Child", ca. 1436
Raphael "Madonna Tempi", ca. 1507
Sandro Botticelli, "The Mourning of Christ", after 1490
Fra Filippo Lippi "Virgin and Child", ca. 1465
Titian, "Crowning with Thorns", "The Emperor Charles V"
Tiepolo "Adoration of the Magi", 1753.

Medieval German Paintings

The collection of Medieval German paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
15th/early 16th century (I-III, 1-10):
Hans Balding-Grien, "Count Palatine Philipp"
Master of St Veronica, "St Veronica with the Veil"
Stefan Lochner, "Mary with the Infant Jesus by a Grassy Bank"
Historical pictures from the collection of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria and his wife Jacobaea of Baden, including Hans Schöpfer's "Story of Suzanna".

Dutch Paintings

The collection of Dutch paintings of the 17th century in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
Frans Hals, "Willem van Heythuysen"
Jan van Goyen, "Village by the River"
Abraham van Beyeren "Still life with Lobster"
Rembrandt, "Self-Portrait", Passion Cycle for Prince Frederik Henrik of Orange
Jacob van Ruisdale, "Forest with Rising Storm"

Flemish Paintings

The collection of Flemish paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
17th century (VI-VIII, 7-10):
Adriaen Brouwer, "Hearing"
Jakob Jordaens, "Satyr with Peasant"
Jan Silberrechts, "Women Sleeping in a Pasture
Van Dyck, "Rest on the Flight"
Rubens, "Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Arbour" (wedding picture), "Rape of Leukippos's Daughter", "Meleager and Atalante"

Medieval Dutch and Flemish Paintings

The collection of Medieval Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
15th/early 16th centuries (I-IIa):
Roger van der Weyden, Altar of the Three Kings (Columba Altar)
Dirck Bouts, winged altar, the "Pearl of Brabant"
Hans Memling, "The Seven Joys of Mary"
Jan Grossaert, "Danae"
Lucas van Leyden, "Madonna and Child with St Magdalena and a Patron".

French Paintings

The collection of French paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes: 17th and 18th centuries (XI-XIIa):
Claude Lorrain, "Seaport with Rising Sun", "Banishment of Hagar"
Nicolas Poussin, "The Mourning of Christ"
François Boucher, "Madame Pompadour"
Jean Baptiste Chardin, "Servant girl scraping vegetables.

Spanish Paintings

The collection of Spanish paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
17th century (XIII):
El Greco, "Disrobing of Christ"
Velázquez, "Young Spanish Nobleman"
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, "Boys eating Melons and Grapes".

German Painting

The collection of German paintings in the Old Picture Gallery in Munich includes:
16th/17th centuries (11):
Adam Elsheimer "The Flight into Egypt", "Troy Burning.
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