Neue Pinakothek

museum, Munich, Germany

Also known as: New Picture Gallery

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The Neue Pinakothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, that is part of the Bavarian State Picture Galleries. It houses a significant collection of European paintings from the 18th to the 20th centuries, as well as 19th and 20th-century sculpture. The museum's collection originated from the private art holdings of Bavarian kings. It is located with the New State Gallery in the House of Art. The Neue Pinakothek is one of Munich's major art institutions, alongside others like the Alte Pinakothek and the Glyptothek.12

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Bavarian State Picture Galleries
The Neue 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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The Neue 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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Munich
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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…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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museum of modern art
History
…house of Wittelsbach, while the Neue 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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…house of Wittelsbach, while the Neue 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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