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Alte Pinakothek

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Alte Pinakothek


(German; “Old Museum of Painting”)

Art museum, one of several collections within the Bavarian State Picture Galleries in Munich, Germany, and one of the great museums of the world. It specializes in European painting from the Middle Ages through the late 18th century; its core collections once belonged to several early Bavarian electors palatine. The building is a 1957 reconstruction of the original 19th-century gallery, destroyed in World War II. Other state museums include the Neue (“New”) Pinakothek, which is based on the private collections of Bavarian kings and features 18th–20th-century European paintings and sculpture; the Schack Gallery collection of late Romantic German painting; and the State Gallery of Modern Art.



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A recent image in the series, Alte Pinakothek (Self-Portrait), Munich, 2000, shows parts of the artist's own body in front of the most iconic of German images, Albrecht Durer's self-portrait.
Painting: The Battle of Issus, 1529, Albrecht Altdorfer, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
In 1824 the Institut in fact passed on the opportunity to acquire the famous collection of the Boisseree brothers of Cologne that three years later was purchased by the Ludwig I of Bavaria and subsequently became the nucleus of the Netherlandish holdings of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
 
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