Alte Pinakothek
Alte Pinakothek stands in Munich’s Kunstareal, a district known for its concentration of museums and galleries. It is an art museum with wheelchair access. Leo von Klenze designed the building for King Ludwig I of Bavaria, completing it in 1836. Neo-Renaissance lines replaced the castle-like museum forms of the early nineteenth century.
Skylights bring daylight to the galleries, an architectural idea that influenced museums in Saint Petersburg, Rome and Brussels. Old Master paintings fill the museum’s rooms. The collection spans the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries and includes works by Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens and Raphael. It began with Duke Wilhelm IV’s acquisitions in the sixteenth century, then grew under Elector Maximilian I and his successors.
World War Two caused heavy damage, but reconstruction preserved the building’s architectural integrity before reopening in 1957. The pre-war interior was not fully restored. In 2008, silk wall coverings in green and red returned historical colours to the upper floors. Those colours echo the original scheme.
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