The Neue Pinakothek is a museum visual arts in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, in southern Germany. The museum contains works of European art from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.

The New Pinakothek was conceived by King Ludwig I of Bavaria as an addition to the Alte Pinakothek. Works of modern art were supposed to be placed here. The Neue Pinakothek opened in 1853, so it is clear that "modern art" was then called art XVIII- XIX centuries.

Ludwig I was not only a passionate collector, he actively supported art in his kingdom. During his reign, Munich became one of the world centers of art. Several art schools and an art academy worked here. Talented domestic artists received scholarships, royal orders. The traditions of wall paintings were revived.

In particular, the Neue Pinakothek was to become an exhibition platform for the artists of the Munich School. The Neue Pinakothek is housed in a building directly opposite the Alte Pinakothek.

>New Pinakothek became the first museum in the world dedicated to contemporary art.

The museum's exposition focused on German art. The first building of the New Pinakothek was destroyed by the American-British bombardments during the Second World War, and it was decided not to restore it. In a competition announced in 1967 for the design of a new museum building, architect Alexander Freiherr won.

In 1975, the foundation stone of a new building for the Neue Pinakothek was laid, and construction was completed only in 1981. The public received the new glass and concrete building ambiguously, but they waited too long for the completion of construction, and the critics fell silent.

Today, the Neue Pinakothek holds more than 3,000 paintings and 300 sculptures.

D22 halls and 10 rooms of the museum are constantly presented with 400 exhibits under the general motto: "From Goya to Picasso".

Paintings in the Neue Pinakothek Munich

During the life of Ludwig I, the rule of the modern national collection of the Neue Pinakothek was strictly observed. Then some of the works of the late 18th century by Spanish and English artists were transferred from the Alte Pinakothek. At the turn of the 20th century, the penetration of the influence of impressionism into the classical German school of painting became inevitable, and, finally, with the advent of the new director Hugo von Schudy in 1908, it became permissible for the museum to acquire works by French impressionists.

International art of the second half of the 18th century

Among the masterpieces of the Neue Pinakothek, it is worth mentioning first of all 5 classic works by Francisco de Goya. Singer painting french revolution Jean Louis David's "Portrait of Anne Marie Louise Thélusson de Sorcy" is revolutionary in its choice, or rather the rejection of the nobility's formal costumes and opulent backgrounds of portraits.

English painting of the late 18th - early 19th centuries

Among the works presented in the Neue Pinakothek, the most prominent are Thomas Gainsborough's "portrait of Mrs. Thomas Hibbert" and the landscape of William Turner, the forerunner of the Impressionists.

German representatives of classicism and romanticism

The collection of the New Pinakothek has a wide range of works by classics such as Jakob Philipp Hackert, Joseph Anton Koch, Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck and other artists living in Rome and Nazareth at monasteries, who sought to return to the origins of Renaissance painting in their work.

Romantics chose landscape and pastoral painting as the basis of their work. One of the brightest representatives of the style is Caspar David Friedrich. Several of his paintings are exhibited in the Neue Pinakothek.

French realism and romanticism

Interesting palette French schools realism and romance is represented in the museum by the works of Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Francois Millet, Honore Daumier and others.

Historical and genre painting

German and Austrian artists Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Carl Theodor von Piloty, Franz von Defregger, Hans Makart immortalized domestic scenes in their works Everyday life and historical events.

German Impressionists

The most prominent representative of German impressionism is the Berlin artist Max Liebermann. Inspired by the ideas of impressionism, he leaves for Paris and Barbizon for several years, then takes a great interest in the Hague school of light colors in painting. Lieberman's style arose from a mixture of these currents. In the Neue Pinakothek you can get acquainted with several works by Liebermann - from the early to the works of a mature author.

Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt are the most popular German Impressionists after Liebermann. Several of their works from different periods are presented in the Neue Pinakothek.

french impressionists

The names of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley need no introduction. Their work can be seen in four rooms of the Neue Pinakothek.

It is hard to imagine that the Impressionist paintings, which today are the pride of any museum and cost fabulous money, were perceived as undesirable at the beginning of the 20th century. Only thanks to the great efforts of the then CEO The Neue Pinakothek received as a gift from collectors 44 paintings and 22 drawings by these masters. Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait was purchased personally by the director of the museum from the artist's widow in 1919. Unfortunately, in 1938, the Nazis who came to power attributed the portrait to a number of "degenerate" art, and it was expelled from the museum.

Symbolism and Art Nouveau

One of Franz von Stuck's most eye-catching works, Sin, depicts a partially naked woman with a huge snake on her shoulder. Franz von Stuck, teacher of Kazimir Malevich and Gustav Klimt, founder of the Munich "Secession", an association of artists who disagree with the conservative classical art, opened with his works, full of symbolism, new ideas and trends, including modernism.

The pride of the museum are the works of Gustav Klimt, the brightest representative style - "Music" and "Portrait of Margaret Stonborough - Wittgenstein". In addition, the museum has works by Egon Schiele, Thomas Brown, Francois Carabin.

The works of the masters of Symbolism, Art Nouveau and other contemporary art movements created in the 20th century are presented in the exposition of the Pinakothek der Moderne.

sculpture collection

The Neue Pinakothek presents sculptural works by Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antonio Canova, Rudolf Schadow, Auguste Rodin, Max Klinger, Aristide Maillol, Pablo Picasso.

Working mode

All Pinakotheks in Munich are open 6 days a week, closed on different days. In the New Pinakothek, the day off is Tuesday.

• Wednesday - from 10.00. until 20.00.
• Thursday - Monday - from 10.00. until 18.00.
• Tuesday — the museum is closed.

Special operating hours of the museum:

• On Faschingdinstag, Carnival Tuesday (Faschingsdienstag) - the last Tuesday of Lent according to the Catholic calendar, May 1, December 24 and 25 and January 1 - the museum is closed.
• To the rest holidays The museum is open as usual.

Important information: The Neue Pinakothek will close on 1 January 2019 for renovations. Some of the exhibits from June 2019 will be placed in the Alte Pinakothek.

Ticket price

The Neue Pinakothek has several ticket options.

Main ticket to the Neue Pinakothek:

• Adult - 7 euros,
• preferential - 5 euros,
• Sunday - 1 euro
• children under the age of 18 are free.

Combined tickets:

• ticket to five museums for 1 day ( Alte Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek, Pinakothek der Moderne, Brandhorst Museum and Shack Collection) - 12 euros,
• ticket to five museums for two days with any day of visits (Old Pinakothek, Neue Pinakothek, Pinakothek der Moderne, Brandhorst Museum and Shack Collection) - 29 euros.

Please note: Every Sunday a ticket to the Neue Pinakothek costs only 1 euro. The offer does not include temporary exhibitions and an audio guide.

For purchase discount ticket at a discount are entitled to:

• persons over 65 years of age upon presentation of a passport,
• students upon presentation of an international student card,
• students in the language courses of the Goethe Institute upon presentation of a student card,
• groups of 15 people.

How to get to the Neue Pinakothek

By public transport

The New Pinakothek is located in the central part of the city, it can be easily reached by any type of public transport.

• By tram (Tram): lines 27, 28 - to the Pinakothek stop (Pinakotheken).
• By metro (U-Bahn): line U2 - to the Königsplatz or Theresienstraße stop, lines U3 or U6 - to the Odeonsplatz or Universität stop, lines U4 or U5 - to the Odeonsplatz stop ). The closest stop to the Neue Pinakothek is the stop of the U2 line Theresienstrasse.
• By Bus: Line 100 Museumslinie or Line 58 (CityRing) to the Pinakothek stop.

By car

If you come by car, be prepared for the fact that the nearest parking lot is at least one kilometer away.

Car parks in the Neue Pinakothek area

Tiefgarage in der Amalienpassage - Underground garage in the shopping center "Amalien Passage", designed for 250 places, works around the clock. Address: Türkenstraße 84.

• every half an hour - 1.50 euros,
• the maximum daily rate is 24.00 euros.

Salvator Garage (Salvator garage) - Surface parking for 365 places. Address: Salvatorplatz 1.

• 1 hour - 3.00 euros,
• 2 hours - 6.00 euros,
• 3 hours - 9.00 euros,
• 4 hours - 12.00 euros,
• 5 hours - 15.00 euros,
• 6 hours - 18.00 euros,
• 24 hours - 20.00 euros.

By taxi

The Neue Pinakothek is easily accessible by Uber or Münchrn Taxi-

Video about the Neue Pinakothek

King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786 - 1868, ruled from 1825 to 1848) in his activities paid great attention to the development of culture, art, architecture and urban planning. During the period when he was at the helm of the state - from about 1815 (Ludwig was crown prince and was directly involved in the reign) until the 1850s - a radical restructuring of the center was carried out in the capital of the kingdom of Munich, the Residence was expanded, the Glyptotek was built, the ensemble of Königplatz square, the building of the Alte Pinakothek was erected.

In the same row is the creation of the New Pinakothek, the construction of which began on October 12, 1846. Opened on October 25, 1853, the Gallery was intended to exhibit works of contemporary European art at that time. It was the first public museum in Europe dedicated only to contemporary art. New Pinakothek became part of the Bavarian State Collection of Pictures (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), in the structure of which it remains to this day.

The huge, rectangular in plan building (107x29x27 meters), architecturally designed as a basilica with a central nave rising above the two side ones, was almost windowless. During the Second World War, the building suffered such huge damage that it was decided to demolish it and build a new one. It was founded in July 1975 according to the design of Alexander von Branca. On March 28, 1981, the Neue Pinakothek was opened in a modern, beautifully designed and well-functioning building. It clearly shows the close connection and continuity of the old tradition and modern principles of architecture and exposition.

Today, the Gallery houses paintings and sculptures by masters who worked from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, about five thousand pieces in total. There are more than 550 works of art in the regularly updated exhibition. A visitor to the Neue Pinakothek can here get a complete picture of the history of the development of art of this period, the differences between art schools, by individual masters, to see the features of works that are significant from a historical or political point of view, or works that are typical, popular for their time.

Just like in the Alte Pinakothek, the exposition of the New Pinakothek is divided into schools, periods, countries.

Halls European end art XVIII, early XIX century filled with a large number of works by English painters. These are mainly traditional portraits, landscapes, compositions with "gallant scenes" and festivities under open sky. An important factor in the development of landscape painting is the innovation of landscape art - the English landscape park. The section presents major English masters: William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Sir Joshua Reynolds - the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Richard Wilson, Henry Raeburn, Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Joseph William Mallord Turner.

French painting of this period is represented by the works of Jacques Louis David, Henry Fuger, Anton Raphael Mengs.

The most significant and diverse artist at the time was the Spaniard Francisco José Goya y Lucientes. In the halls of the Neue Pinakothek, his religious and genre scenes from Spanish life, portraits and even a still life not typical for him are exhibited.

Munich. New Pinakothek. The Pinakothek has two courtyards, around which corridors and small halls are arranged. Their walls are lined with a calm gray stone. Soft light pours from the windows and somewhere above. Here, in silence, marble sculptures and gypsum bas-reliefs look great.

- German Classicism and Romanticism. This large section of the exposition is divided into a number of subsections:

• early romanticism. Shown here are works of German painting created in early XIX century in the main art centers of Germany - Dresden, Berlin, Munich. This is the Dresden school: Caspar David Friedrich, Georg Friedrich Kersting - the master of the image of the burgher environment, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, Carl Gustav Carus. Their art is characterized by romantic and religious tendencies, patriotic orientation. The landscapes of Friedrich are endowed with deep meaning, amaze with the subtlety of observations and deep spirituality that separates his painting from a more factual interpretation of the nature of Karl Blechen, a Berlin artist. The Munich School is represented by Johan Georg von Dillis, Wilhelm von Kobell, Leo von Klenze, Karl Rothmann.
• Art at the court of Ludwig I. In the halls of this subsection, works by favorite artists of Ludwig I are displayed, as well as canvases telling about events in which the king took part directly or indirectly. Such a canvas is, for example, a group portrait of German painters working in Rome, painted by Franz Ludwig Catel. large paintings Peter von Hess depict scenes from the life of Otto, the son of Ludwig, who was for some time the king of Greece. Beautiful are the classic portraits of Goethe and Schelling by Josef Karl Stieler, which were specially commissioned by Ludwig I. Thanks to the indefatigable energy of the king, Munich became the leading center of art in Europe. Judging by the exposition of the subsection, the tastes of Ludwig I as a collector and patron of the arts were very broad.

Munich. New Pinakothek. In the hall of art at the court of Ludwig I. Left - formal portrait King Ludwig I of Bavaria. The large canvas on the right depicts a historical scene: having achieved independence from Ottoman Empire the people of Greece meet their king - Otto I, son of Ludwig I, and the Bavarian military detachments accompanying him.

• "Roman Germans". This was the name given to German artists who studied Italian art and worked in Italy: Jacob Philipp Hackert, Josef Anton Koch, Adrian Ludwig Richter, Ernst Fries.
• Nazarenes. Such a nickname was given to young artists, students of the Vienna Academy of Arts, who in 1809 settled in Rome in an empty monastery for their monastic robes: Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel, Konrad Hottinger, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, Heinrich Maria Hess. They formed the "Brotherhood of St. Luke" copying medieval traditions. Their goal was to fight dry academicism, in an attempt to restore the lost simplicity of painting. Italian artists, in the preservation of Christian ideals in painting. The simplicity of their compositions and religious and patriotic themes attracted the attention of contemporaries.

• Carl Rothman. A cycle of 23 Greek landscapes by this artist, painted on plaster, were intended for the arcades of the Munich Hofgarten. In 2003, 14 paintings from this cycle were exhibited in a separate room of the Neue Pinakothek with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. During the period of classicism, Greece was given special meaning, her poetry and art were perceived as role models. This coincided with the start of the Greek War of Independence, which ended in victory. In the same period, Ludwig I began architectural transformations in Munich, the creation of "Athens on the Isar". His son Otto became the first king of independent Greece. Greek antiquity had a huge influence on the royal architect Leo von Klenze, who oversaw the decoration of the arcades of the Hofgarten. And it is quite natural that Karl Rothman, who wrote the Italian cycle for arcades, received an order for a cycle of Greek landscapes. Especially for the fulfillment of the order, the artist traveled around Greece in 1834-1835 and made preliminary sketches, then watercolor sketches, which served as models for wall painting. The frescoes were painted between 1838 and 1850 in encaustic colors on plaster panels attached to the walls. These are monumental landscapes, the solemnity of which is emphasized by the vast rocky space, and the pathos is created by different lighting at different times of the day and in different weather. To this is added the knowledge of the viewer about the depicted heroic places, obtained by studying the history or reading the myths of Ancient Greece: Sparta, Aegina, Thebes, Corinth, Mount Parnassus, Marathon.

Biedermeier. The poems of Gottfried Biedermeier in 1855-1857 appeared regularly in the comic magazine Münchner Fliegende Blätter. But the authors of these poems were actually Munich writers Adolf Kusmaul and Ludwig Eichrod. Kusmaul also invented a character, a kind of "Munich Kozma Prutkov", obedient and simple-hearted, a poet, a typical German burgher of the period from the Vienna Congress of 1815 to the March Revolution of 1848. He became the personification of the style of this period in the art, literature and way of life of the German-speaking countries - the quintessence of burghers with an admixture of sentimentality, the spirit of simplicity and modesty, nothing heroic or political. In painting, the high ideals of romanticism and classicism were replaced by unpretentiousness, a simplified image of the world, sentimentality, and moralization.

This style was represented by the artists Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Moritz von Schwind, Karl Spitzweg, Friedrich von Amerling, Domenico Quaglio.

- Late Romanticism and Realism in France. All works in this section were written at the beginning and mid-nineteenth century. In many of them, the beginnings of impressionism are found. The authors of complex historical compositions Theodore Gericault and Eugene Delacroix; representatives of the Barbizon school Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet and Narciss Diaz de la Peya; Jean-Francois Millet, glorifying peasant life; Honore Daumier, demonstrating a critical attitude towards society. A portrait bust of The Man with a Broken Nose by Auguste Rodin is also exhibited here.

- Late Romanticism and Realism in Germany. The section presents three main schools of German painting: Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich. Berliner Adolf von Menzel, one of the greatest German artists of the 19th century, was always interested in the human and psychological side of history, scenes modern life. The work of the Munich artist Karl Spitzweg is marked by a quiet irony bordering on caricature. The works of masters Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach and Oswald Achenbach represent the Düsseldorf school in the section.

- History painting and official art. The section is devoted to "official art", the art of professors and members of art academies who worked in Germany in the second half of the 19th century. Their "historical" canvases and sculptures adorned palaces, state institutions, churches and museums. Here are pompous portraits, full of borrowings from the art of past centuries, satisfying the main requirements - grandeur and monumentality. It was during this period that a sharp line was drawn between "official" art and unofficial. This section exhibits paintings by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Carl Theodor von Piloty, Franz von Lenbach, Franz von Deffreger, Albert von Keller, Hans Makart, sculpture by Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Academic artists, who felt themselves the heirs of the Renaissance, and customers, the elite of the state and the church, who felt themselves the successors of the patrons of the Renaissance, considered historical painting not as a large-scale decoration, but as a statement of national ideology.

- German artists in Rome. Canvases by German artists of the second half of XIX centuries, which were attracted by Italy: Hans von Mare, Arnold Böcklin, Ansel Feuerbach, Hans Thoma. They looked for inspiration in antiquity.

- Wilhelm Leibl and his circle. In the sixties of the 19th century, Leibl was the leader of a group of artists who studied at the Munich Academy: Johannes Sperl, Theodor Alt, Rudolf Hirt du Fresnay, Fritz Schieder. Wilhelm Trubner and Karl Schuch then joined them. They followed the principle of "fidelity to nature" and wrote home scenes and still lifes, compositions. They were strongly influenced by the art of Dutch landscape and genre paintings. artists of the XVII century. This painting was considered by them as "modern", it corresponded to their ideals.

- french impressionism. Plein air work with a quick change of impressions turned out to be main goal French artists, very different in their work, but united by the concept of "impressionism" (impression - impression). They came up with the idea to convey colors and shades with color contrasts, to brighten the palette, to work with pure, radiant colors. A quick, free stroke could not create the illusion of an unshakable form. Luminous landscapes, portraits and genre scenes reflect the joyful atmosphere of nature and life. In the halls of the New Pinakothek exhibited the works of almost all famous representatives of this trend of painting, who worked in the seventies, eighties, nineties of the XIX century, and in different periods their creativity. On the plates under the paintings, the visitor will read well-known names: Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pizarro, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin. The same section presents a number of sculptures by Auguste Rodin.

Almost all the paintings in this section were donated to the Neue Pinakothek between 1911 and 1913 by the people of Munich and by artists as a gift made in memory of Hugo von Tschudi (1851–1911), who in 1909–1911 was director of the Bavarian State Art Museum. assembly.

Realism XIX century and plein air painting. The section presents paintings by German realistic artists of the second half of the 19th century Max Liebermann, Fritz von Uhde, Max Slevogt. They chose peasants, urban bourgeois and workers as their models. Here you can see the work of the group Dutch painters the Hague school, which took shape in the early 1870s and also embodied the realistic line in painting. They created lyrically restrained landscapes, characterized by the immediacy of the perception of nature: Johannes Bosbom, Willem Roelofs, Josef Israels, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Paul Joseph Gabriel, Anton Mauve, Hendrik Willem Mesdag. They had a profound effect on the early Van Gogh.

- German Impressionism. The term "impressionism" was used to define luminous paintings, where the pictorial surface is more important than the traditional composition with three-dimensional space. German artists rarely achieved the luminosity of the French, using mostly midtones. They gravitated more to plot, adhered to mythological and literary themes. Here we will see the same names as in the previous section: Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth - the three main figures of German Impressionism.

- European art on the edge XIX - XX centuries. Paintings are exhibited here, illustrating the diversity of artistic movements that existed during a period characterized by a rapid renewal of art. The works of the Frenchmen Claude Monet and Paul Signac show the last phase of impressionism and post-impressionism. Nearby are paintings by the Nabis group - Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard. Odilon Redon turns to symbolism. The new style that arose during this period was based on general forms and ideas, but it was called in different countries in different ways: in Germany - Jugendstil, in France and England - Art Nouveau, in Russia - Art Nouveau. Artists strove for a combination of monochrome color planes and clear contour lines, and some of them (for example, Gustav Klimt from Vienna) turned forms into sparkling gem structures. The Frenchman Vuillard and the Norwegian Edvard Munch created expressive visions filled with anxiety and fear.

Two sculptures exhibited in the section attract attention: the portrait of Helena Nostitz by the late Auguste Rodin and the head of the jester Pablo Picasso. An interesting sculpture by Max Klinger, made of different types of marble.

How to get to Neue Pinakothek Munich

The Neue Pinakothek is located directly opposite the Alte Pinakothek, on the other side of the Theresienstraße, in the center of the MuseumsQuartier. You can get here on the U-bahn line U2 (stations "Theresienstraße", "Königsplatz") or lines U3 / U6 (stations Universität and Odeonsplatz). Further from any metro station you can walk for about ten minutes.

In addition, the center of the Museum Quarter can be reached by buses No. 100 and No. 154, or tram No. 27.

Publication date: 2013-09-16

New Pinakothek(German Neue Pinakothek) - picture gallery with the works of artists of the XIX-XX centuries. More than 550 paintings and 50 sculptures are presented in 22 halls and 10 cabinets different styles from Rococo to German Art Nouveau. There are 3,000 more paintings and 300 sculptures in the storerooms.

History of the Neue Pinakothek

The New Pinakothek was founded in 1853 by the Bavarian king Ludwig I, who dreamed of introducing ordinary people and townspeople to high art. Recall that by this time the Bavarian ruler had already successfully achieved the first part of his goal by opening the Alte Pinakothek in 1836. Unusual name"Pinakoteka" was borrowed from the ancient Greeks, who used this term to designate a room where objects with a picturesque image or painting were stored.

Second World War prepared a severe test for the attraction - the building that housed works of art, was completely destroyed and could not be restored. The construction of the new structure dragged on for three decades and was not completed until 1981. The unusual modern building with bay windows and semi-circular arches of windows caused controversy and public controversy, but its magnificent halls with overhead lighting received universal approval.

Selected paintings of the Neue Pinakothek

"Vase with sunflowers", Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Vincent van Gogh wrote about himself: "I feel the need to change, start over and apologize that my paintings carry almost a cry of despair, although my rural sunflowers may sound grateful." Sunflower - "child of the sun." This flower is a symbol of optimism and creative people. Perhaps that is why the master wanted to "apologize and thank" in this way, giving the viewer a piece of solar energy.

For the artist, the sunflower was some kind of symbol, a kind of talisman. In a letter to his brother, he wrote: "The sunflower, in a sense, is mine." Therefore, since 1987, sunflowers have filled 11 paintings by Vincent van Gogh.

It can be seen that when writing a picture, the artist was overwhelmed with emotions. Oil paints applied to the canvas very thickly, with jerky strokes. It seems that each stroke is bitterness and happiness. When you look at flowers, it seems that you can touch a sunflower, touch it, feel its shape.

For Vincent van Gogh, it was very important to convey the entire palette of sunflower petals. The picture reflects both fading sunflowers and very fresh flowers. So the author transmits solar energy in his favorite yellow. The core of the flower is filled with magic. The sky blue background creates incredible tenderness and conveys the energy of the blue of the sky. The picture evokes an amazing feeling of morning lightness, scorching heat of the sun and the inevitable withering of the flower, which gave all the positive energy to the viewer.

A feature of Vincent van Gogh was the vision of the soul where it cannot be. He saw the soul in the trees, it is obvious that the soul of the sunflower was in tune with him. “Gauguin really liked my sunflowers when he took a good look at them” (Vincent van Gogh).

"The Poor Poet", Carl Spitzweg, 1839

The picture of the New Pinakothek will not leave anyone indifferent, because it causes an involuntary smile from the situation and the bizarre appearance of the protagonist. A touching and lonely poet who is so carried away by the process of creating a new work that he does not notice all the mess around him.

In a small room, there is no order at all. Sunlight tries to penetrate through a dirty window, a clothesline hangs casually, a basin and an empty bottle stand on the stove, a shoe is lying somewhere. The local newspapers have not found a better use, so they will soon suffer the fate of being burned in the oven. Near the poet are books, boxes and other things that create an atmosphere of chaos. The poet himself sat comfortably on the mattress. A thin blanket, two pillows and a nightcap - this is the creative place of the protagonist. A broken umbrella hovers under the ceiling, but the poet is not at all embarrassed by this whole situation. He is happy and lives in the process, but order...let order wait.

"After a stormy night", Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, 1819

As the painter himself admitted, the painting “After a Stormy Night” is his best creation, although it took only 8 days to create a masterpiece. Johan Dal turned out to be a real fighter, because at first his creation was subjected to very harsh criticism among his contemporaries, which he withstood without losing faith. He believed that the viewer will appreciate and fully understand the beauty and design in the future.

It is very difficult to pass by this picture. The view captures the plot, and the tragic events of the past night are recreated in the soul of the viewer. Here everything is saturated with ruin, but at the same time, rebirth is felt. The amazing sky combines shades of night and grief in the form of clouds, as well as the light of rebirth, as a hope for something good. The sea frightens with its darkness, but at the same time, the foam near the shore, as it were, sympathizes with the hero, giving hope. Rocks are the comfort and strength of a hero. The little dog symbolizes the pain of loss.

Melodrama, Honore Daumier, 1860

The picture of the New Pinakothek is saturated with emotionality, the play of the theater. You want to constantly look at the audience watching the stage, you want to be among this crowd in order to feel the energy of the hall, to live the entire performance from beginning to end.

All the time does not leave the feeling that the continuation of the performance is about to begin. This feeling simultaneously holds and makes you look for continuation. The picture comes to life in the heart, fascinates with the action and play of the actors. The actors are faceless, but how incredibly accurately the atmosphere of their inner state is conveyed.

Don Quixote, Honore Daumier, 1868

The picture combines joy and pessimism at the same time. At first glance, she seems bright and optimistic. The brightest sky looks like a pure “sea of ​​hopes”, and only the desert and the stone grandeur of the road going up bring a tragic note of despair. In the painting "Don Quixote" it was not in vain that the desert landscape was chosen, as main symbol loneliness.

The main character is depicted as faceless. His unique personality, the desire to move forward, the desperate zeal for new victories is reflected in energetic and broad strokes. The artist masterfully conveyed the character of Don Quixote in three colors. Tired horse, with bowed head, faithfully serves his master, and takes step by step on the way to new challenges.

"Still Life with Apples", Gustave Courbet, 1871

The picture is filled with pessimism. The gloomy sky and the spreading tree make the viewer sad, and only a bright spot in the picture gives hope that it (sadness) will pass, and a bright sunny day will come.

The use of rich, vibrant colors to reflect the beauty of apples is mesmerizing. It seems that an ordinary object - an apple - opens up a whole world. The viewer forgets about the gloomy background, his whole gaze is fixed on juicy red bulk apples. A little later, several pomegranates lying to the side and a ripe pear become noticeable in the picture, but so far the eye is captivated by the beauty of the form and the play of the apple composition.

"Landscape on the Main", Hans Thoma, 1875

Distinctive feature Hans Thoma is writing realistic, "folk", "simple" landscapes. Such a feeling develops only for the first few seconds, after which the “inner” world of the picture opens, which Hans Thoma wanted to show and convey to the soul of the viewer.

The artist depicted the blessing of the sky and the beauty of the sun's rays with the airy weightlessness of the clouds with unusual accuracy. The canvas evokes a feeling of calm, harmony, the absence of the usual bustle of life and just enjoying the beautiful landscape and a sunny day. Upon close examination, the viewer is filled with a special divine light, which the author managed to convey in an amazing way.

"Kindergarten", Johan Sperl, 1884

The picture is saturated with the atmosphere of the holiday and childhood. The overall harmony is striking. Johan Sperl amazingly captured the beauty of a warm spring day. There is not a single sad child on the canvas, everyone is busy with their own business: someone picks flowers, someone helps caregivers, someone hides behind a tree. great time childhood can be traced even in bright children's clothing. Educators with maternal care do housework. The touching picture is given by a duck with little ducklings that went for a walk.

The Neue Pinakothek was founded by Ludwig of Bavaria. My private collection he decided to open to the people. In 1848, the king initiated the construction of the building - it was decided to build it opposite the Alte Pinakothek. The Neue Pinakothek gallery opened in 1853 in Munich.

The New Pinakothek was founded by the "moon king" - a romantic ruler Ludwig of Bavaria. He decided to open his private collection to the people. In 1848, the king initiated the construction of the building - it was decided to build it opposite the Alte Pinakothek. The project was made by August Voith and Friedrich Gaertner.

The gallery opened in 1853 in Munich.

At that time it was the first meeting modern painting. The exposition presented the works of Munich painters, German romantic artists. Unlike the assembly Old Pinakothek, sculptures were also exhibited here. Art in the gallery was covered rather one-sidedly. Even after the death of the king, the collection continued to grow, but the direction did not change.

Since 1915, the museum has been owned by the state. Changed the situation in the gallery Hugo von Chudi Director of the Munich State Painting Collection. At the beginning of the 20th century, French painting had no authority in the art world and received little critical attention. Tschudi decided to popularize French art and acquired a large collection of paintings for the museum. impressionists.

The Bavarian public saw the paintings Manet and Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh. Unfortunately, Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait" was subsequently lost to the gallery - in 1938 it was sold. The famous painting "Sunflowers" has been preserved - it can still be seen today in the Pinakothek.

The New Pinakothek now occupies a different building than was intended for it by King Ludwig. During World War II, the gallery was completely destroyed. The building had to be demolished, and the exhibition was moved to the Art House on Prinzenregentenstrasse.

It wasn't until March 1981 that the Neue Pinakothek was reopened as a separate museum. This building was built by an architect Alexander von Branca— he tried to match the form of the building with the content. The postmodern image of the gallery was received ambiguously by the public, however new museum quickly won the sympathy of visitors thanks to its spacious halls and well-organized lighting.

The exposition of the Neue Pinakothek serves as an intermediate link between the collection of old paintings of the Alte Pinakothek and the Art Nouveau collection from the Pinakothek der Moderne (now located in the House of Art). It covers the period of the late XVIII - early XX centuries: from Jacques Louis David and Goya- before Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet.

In total, the museum's funds contain about 4.5 thousand paintings and 300 sculptural works (sculptures Thorvaldsen, Canova, Auguste Rodin). 400 works are presented to the attention of the public in 33 halls, divided by direction and chronology.

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Take tram 27, 28, No. 27 to the Pinakotheken stop

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The amazing art gallery called the Neue Pinakothek was conceived in 1846 as a logical continuation of the Alte Pinakothek. Representing the art of the late 18th century at the beginning. The New Pinakothek gradually embraced both 19th and 20th century painting and sculpture.

By the way, the Old Pinakothek (and the strange word “pinakothek” itself means “repository of boards and paintings” in Greek) is also nearby, directly opposite, and it houses the works of masters from the Middle Ages to the middle of the 18th century. There is also a third Pinakothek - Modernity, it contains works of art modern world- 20th and 21st centuries.

The gallery was founded in 1853 by order of the Bavarian king Ludwig I, who wished to create a collection of art, at that time modern, that could be in front of the public eye. However, the king was a patriot, and painting at that time was only of the Munich school. As a result, all the works were placed in the Old and New Pinakotheks. Thus, the Neue subsequently acquired the status of the world's first Pinakothek containing collections of contemporary art.

The Neue Pinakothek houses the world's largest art collection from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Only at the beginning of the last century, the exposition of the New Pinakothek included works by the French impressionists Cezanne, Gauguin, Manet and other famous masters. The Neue Pinakothek contains more than 3,000 paintings and 300 sculptures. This is the world's largest art collection of the 18th-20th centuries. Now the Neue Pinakothek is replenished with new collections, and thanks to donations and the help of art connoisseurs, it is one of the most extensive expositions of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The 22 rooms and 10 rooms, located in the postmodernist building of the Pinakothek, rebuilt only in 1981 (the old building was destroyed during the war), show paintings by Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec. In the second half of the 20th century the collection was replenished with works by Delacroix, Degas, Sisley. Now in the halls of the museum you can see paintings by Jacques Louis David, Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco Goya, Camille Corot, Gustav Klimt, Auguste Rodin and many other famous artists.

To look at all these masterpieces costs 7 EUR for adults and 5 EUR for students and pensioners, children under 18 years old are free of charge; on Sundays, the entrance costs 1 EUR at all. The museum is waiting for guests every day, except Tuesday, from 10:00 to 18:00, and on Wednesdays from 10:00 to 20:00

How to get there

The New Pinakothek is located next to the Old Pinakothek at Barerstrasse, 29. The day off is Tuesday, admission is paid, travel by tram 27, bus number 53 and metro 2, 8 to the stop. Theresienstrasse.

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