Old and new masters united in the Alte Pinakothek
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, November 7, 2024


Old and new masters united in the Alte Pinakothek
Installation view. © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar.



MUNICH.- Good news for all those missing the Neue Pinakothek: from July 25, the most important works of the nineteenth century are on display in the Alte Pinakothek. Titled “From Goya to Manet. The Nineteenth Century”, the presentation shows around 90 paintings and sculptures that outline the broad spectrum from the late eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The limited rooms in the east wing of the ground floor, where the large altars by artists including Michael Pacher were recently on display, only focus on a few topics and situations from this century so rich in upheavals, yet at the same time enable new configurations and unexpected encounters.

For example, portraits from the classical period come into contact with those from the dawn of modernism in the large central hall. Goya’s keenly observed portraits and the naturalistic staging of the English upper class in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Thomas Lawrence are confronted by Edouard Manet’s coolly detached realism and Edgar Degas’ portrayal of ordinary people. Antonio Canova’s monumental classicism communicates with George Minne’s dreamy symbolism in the adjoining cabinet, while in the adjacent room works by artists such as van Gogh, Klimt, and Segantini mark a radical departure from traditional ways of seeing.

In the gallery of German Romantics the retrospective painting of the Nazarenes in Rome appears alongside the introspection of Caspar David Friedrich in Dresden and the realism, rendered with painterly bravura, of Carl Blechen in Berlin. Eugène Delacroix’s literary romanticism meets William Turner’s and John Constable’s empirical exploration of nature in the cabinet of French and English romantics and early realists. Wilhelm Leibl and his circle follow in the footsteps of Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon school, while Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Max Slevogt represent the dawning spirit of modernism in Berlin around 1900.

YEARNING FOR THE SOUTH—THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN THE SAMMLUNG SCHACK
The second location for this new presentation of the nineteenth century is the Sammlung Schack. A total of 35 paintings from the Neue Pinakothek are now being shown on the premises at Prinzregentenstraße. They enrich the existing emphasis of the collection on the painting of the romantics and the Deutschrömer (“German Romans”, a group of German artists living and working in Rome in the nineteenth century). Among the most significant works now on display in the Sammlung Schack are Franz Ludwig Catel’s “Crown Prince Ludwig in the Spanish Wine Tavern in Rome”, Joseph Stieler’s portrait of Goethe, Moritz von Schwind’s “A Symphony”, Arnold Böcklin’s “Pan among the Reeds”, Anselm Feuerbach’s “Medea”, and, last but not least, Carl Spitzweg’s “The Poor Poet”.

The Neue Pinakothek is based on the collection of Ludwig I, who was enthusiastic about travelling to Italy and a passionate Philhellene. His interest in the cultures of the Mediterranean, Italy and Greece, connects him to the collector Count Schack. The romantic yearning for the south is a defining theme of both collections. The closure of the Neue Pinakothek has made it possible to unite major works from the collection of Ludwig I with the paintings of the Sammlung Schack, and thus to present the theme of German enthusiasm for Italy and Greece in a new, uniquely rich selection of works.










Today's News

July 27, 2019

Old and new masters united in the Alte Pinakothek

MOCA acquires performance piece into its permanent collection

Exhibition sees artists using the space of the garden as a metaphor for the state of the world

Exhibition at Gagosian celebrates the legendary Fletcher family

V&A acquires series of objects documenting global Extinction Rebellion movement

Centre Pompidou-Metz opens an exhibition devoted to opera

Lambert Collection opens four new exhibitions this summer

Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles brings together thirty paintings by Niko Pirosmani

Exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design searches for the ultimate machined object

Artpace Summer resident artists to open new exhibitions

Collective opens James Richards' first solo show in Scotland

President Barack Obama's game-worn high school basketball jersey may bring $100,000 at auction

Jay-Z, John Fogerty drop out of embattled Woodstock 50 fest

Exhibition presents Hanele Zane Putniņa and Amanda Ziemele's exhibition of the Eimanda Zeina Collection

Tadashi Kawamata takes over Nantes with his "Nests"

Important science fiction collection of Glynn and Suzanne Crain offered by Heritage Auctions

Serge Attukwei Clottey creates new work featured in the exhibition 'Stormy Weather' on climate change

Kunsthalle Mannheim opens BOX exhibition featuring artist's books

Monument to Robert Burns restored with American support

FACTION Art Projects opens a vibrant and questioning new exhibition

Red Bull Arts Detroit opens summer artist residency exhibition

London's premier antiquities dealer, Pax Romana, to host Aug. 10 auction of cultural art, relics

The Inspiration of Pablo Picasso




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful