• InBavarian State Picture Galleries

  TheNeue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek), based on private picture collections of the Bavarian kings, is a collection noted for its works of European painting from the 18th through the 20th century and for its sculpture of the 19th–20th centuries. It is housed with the New State…

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feature of Munich

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  InMunich: The contemporary city

  …the Glyptothek, there are the Neue (New) Pinakothek, which houses Munich’s main collection of 19th- and 20th-century art; the Bavarian National Museum, which contains German art and applied art since the Middle Ages; and the Residence Museum, which has paintings, sculpture, furniture, and ceramics. The Deutsches Museum, on an island…

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museums of modern art

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  Inmuseum of modern art: History

  …house of Wittelsbach, while theNeue Pinakothek (opened 1853) contained the collection of “modern” (that is to say, 19th-century) paintings that Louis had begun forming in 1809, while crown prince. In Britain the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain, one of four Tate galleries)—founded in 1897 as the National Gallery of…

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