21 June 2007 – 2 September 2007

VIEWS ON EUROPE

Europe and German Painting in the 19th Century

The exhibition was conceived and realised by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich at the Neue Pinakothek The exhibition »Views on Europe. Europe and German Painting in the 19th Century« has been conceived as the central cultural contribution by the Federal Republic of Germany to mark its EU-presidency in the first half of 2007. The successful exhibition had been shown in Brussels in springtime before it moved to Munich.

Generously supported by works on loan from more than twenty other museums in Germany, this selection of some 150 paintings demonstrates impressively how German art was networked throughout Europe. It illustrates the way in which the painters, from Classicism and the Romantic Movement through to Realism at the end of the 19th century, took up a wide variety of themes from European literature, contemporary history and the humanities. It shows what aspects and events they captured on canvas as observers and chroniclers, how they travelled the length and breadth of Europe - from the Nordic countries down to Spain, from Greece to Russia - both absorbing and spreading across borders the artistic influences they had encountered.

Address

Neue Pinakothek
Kunstareal München Barer Strasse 29; Eingang: TheresienStrasse
80799 München
phone +49 89 23 80 51 95
http://www.pinakothek.de

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wednesday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Tuesday

Description of the Museum

European Painting and Sculpture of the 18th and 19th Centuries

The Neue Pinakothek offers an overview of European art from classicism to art nouveau. Its founder was King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who opened the museum in 1853 and had it built to house his privately financed collection of works by contemporary artists. Following the destruction of the museum during the Second World War and temporary exhibition of the collection in the Haus der Kunst, a new building, designed by architect Alexander von Branca, was opened in 1981. Thanks to expansion of the collection through endowments and purchases, the Neue Pinakothek is now the most important museum of art of the nineteenth century in the world.

New building opened 1981; architect: Alexander von Branca

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