In the festive gallery hall of the Ansbach Residence visitors will encounter selected works of Flemish, Dutch and French baroque painting. From still lifes to portraits, paintings of all genres are represented – even such brilliant genre pictures as "The Secret Lover" by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince or Jan Both’s "Roman Folk Scene" can be discovered here. The adjoining picture collection shows works by the local court artists. Only part of the works on display originated from the original margravial collection: numerous high-quality paintings of other origins characterize today’s presentation

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Residenz Ansbach
Promenade 27
91522 Ansbach

T +49 (0)981 953839-0

Opening hours
April-September: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
October-March: 10 a.m - 4 p.m.
Monday closed

Closed on: January 01, Shrove Tuesday, December 24 / 25 / 31

Admission
5 Euro | regular
4 Euro | reduced

Reopening of the Aschaffenburg branch gallery in Johannisburg Palace from 4 May 2023

On 4 May, the Aschaffenburg branch gallery reopened its doors after years of renovation - and one of the most magnificent collections of paintings from the late 18th century is once again on display. The works of renowned masters accumulated by the Elector of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, had been presented in his secondary residence in Johannisburg Palace in Aschaffenburg, since 1794. Around 1802/03, the famous paintings by Lucas Cranach and his workshop from the collegiate church were added. These had once been commissioned by one of his predecessors in office: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, powerful ecclesiastical prince and adversary of Martin Luther. In 1814, the art possessions of the Elector Bishops of Mainz fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria. A good 280 paintings and the historic decorative frames have been conserved and restored over the years. Grouped into dense ensembles, the works by Flemish, Dutch, Italian, French and German masters give the impression of a Baroque picture gallery. The centre of the sequence of rooms is the large hall with paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder; the tour is concluded by the two impressive series of pictures with views of Mainz and Aschaffenburg by Christian Georg Schütz the Elder and Ferdinand Kobell.

Together with the historical frames and the new precious wall coverings, the splendid appearance of a princely picture gallery of the late 18th century is now restored.

Guide sheets with information on the exhibited artworks:
Download (PDF) | English

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Schloss Johannisburg
Schlossplatz 4
63739 Aschaffenburg

T +49 (0)6021 386570

Opening hours
April-3 October: 9 a.m.-06 p.m.
4. October-March: 10 a.m.-04 p.m.
Monday closed

Closed on: January 01, Shrove Tuesday, December 24 / 25 / 31

Admission
6 Euro | regular
5 Euro I reduced

Combination ticket "Johannisburg Palace & Pompejanum"
9 Euro| regular
7 Euro I reduced

For technical reasons, the branch gallery in der Katharinenkirche Augsburg is currently closed.

Founded after 1806 and established in 1835 in the Church of St. Catherine, the gallery is the oldest branch gallery of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections). It comprises paintings from the Augsburg and Swabian schools of the late Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, the great period of Augsburg painting. Numerous works are among them, which were commissioned by patrician families for churches and monasteries of the old imperial city, among others also for Saint Catherine’s monastery. At the centre of the collection are Dürer's portrait of Jakob Fugger the Rich and the series of paintings of the seven Roman basilicas by H. Holbein the Elder, H. Burgkmair and the monogrammist L. F.

Information sheet on exhibited artworks: Download as PDF

The branch galleriy is located in Katharinenkirche Augsburg, access via the Schaezlerpalais. 
The new lift in the Schaezlerpalais gives all visitors easier access to the exhibitions on the 1st and 2nd floors.

To the Website of the Schaezlerpalais Augsburg

Address
Staatsgalerie in der Katharinenkirche
Entrance Schaezlerpalais
Maximilianstraße 46
86150 Augsburg

T +49 (0)821 510350

Opening hours
Tuesday - Sunday
10 a.m.-  5 p.m.
Monday closed

Open from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.:
Epiphany (Heilige Drei Könige, 06 January), Easter Monday, Whit Monday, Hohes Friedensfest (08 August), Feast of the Assumption of Mary (Mariä Himmelfahrt, 15 August), Day of German Unity (Tag der Deutschen Einheit, 03 October), Christmas Day (25 December), Boxing Day (26 December), New Year’s Eve (31 December)

Closed on:
Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday, Christmas Eve (24 December), New Year’s Day (01 January)

Admission
7 Euro | regular
5,50 Euro | reduced
Sundays free entry
U27-Ticket | free admission for everyone under 27

Separate admission prices apply for special exhibitions.

The branch gallery is located in the New Residence in Bamberg and consists of two sections.

Old German section
In the former Prince-Bishop's Residence in Bamberg, masterpieces of late Gothic and early Renaissance art from the collections of the state and the City of Bamberg are exhibited, merging to form an important ensemble of Bamberg, Franconian and Cologne paintings. These include major works from the Boisserée Collection, the famous gallery of Old German, predominantly Old Cologne painting acquired by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1827 for Alte Pinakothek, which was then under construction.

Baroque Gallery
The Baroque section of the branch gallery shows monumental paintings of picture galleries by Johann Michael Bretschneider (1656-1727), works by the Rubens teacher Otto van Veen (c. 1556-1629) and by Rembrandt contemporary Jan Lievens (1607-1674), as well as Dutch landscape paintings and still lifes. A separate room is dedicated to the collection of the Bamberg Prince-Bishops: 40 paintings in a multi-row hanging arrangement illustrate the habits of collecting and presenting during the Baroque period.

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration
Website "Museen um den Bamberger Dom"

Address
Neue Residenz
Domplatz 8
96049 Bamberg

T +49 (0)951 519390

Opening hours
April-September: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
October-March: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Closed on:
January 01, Shrove Tuesday, December 24 / 25 / 31

Admission charges
6 Euro | regular
5 Euro | reduced

Combination ticket (New Residence in Bamberg/ Seehof Palace)
9 Euro | regular
7 Euro | reduced

The branch gallery in the New Palace in Bayreuth contains more than eighty Dutch, Flemish and German paintings dating from the late seventeenth to the eighteenth century. Displayed in elaborate frames in the recently restored picture gallery founded by Margrave Friedrich and his wife, Wilhelmine, they give a good idea of how a late Baroque art collection must have looked.

A major focus is Dutch painting from around 1700, the end of the Golden Age. In the late seventeenth century French influence “ennobled” the visual arts in the Low Countries. Painting there began to be dominated in form and content by classical antiquity and acquired a new decorative elegance. The first room in the Bayreuth branch gallery focuses on history painting, e.g. by Gerard de Lairesse, Gerard Hoet and Adriaen van der Werff. These figure paintings appear alongside masterpieces by the finest still-life painters of the age: Lavish flower pieces by Rachel Ruysch and Jan Huysum or Jan Weenix’s much-admired hunting still lifes.

The second room centres on German landscape painting of the eighteenth century, with major pictures by artists who took their cue from Dutch seventeenth-century painting, including Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich and August Querfurt.

The third main focus of the branch gallery is especially distinctive. A separate cabinet is devoted to charming portraits, genre paintings and still lifes by the Flemish artist Peter Jakob Horemans (1700-1776), who was active as court painter in Munich. Horemans’s lovingly detailed images captured the richness of eighteenth century culture, giving present-day viewers an insight into everyday life in southern Germany in the Rococo period.

The branch gallery is located in the New Palace in Bayreuth.

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Neues Schloss Bayreuth
Ludwigstrasse 21
95444 Bayreuth

T +49 (0)921 75969 0

Opening hours
April-September: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
October-March: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Closed on:
January 01, Shrove Tuesday, December 24 / 25 / 31

Admission
5,50 Euro | regular
4,50 Euro | reduced

This branch gallery is located in the palace of the citadel at Burghausen, one of Germany's largest fortresses. 15th- and 16th-century paintings from the South German (Bavarian) and the neighboring Austrian region are exhibited here. On the third floor there is a large-format painting on the subject of Bavarian ducal history that is part of the cycle completed by the painter Hans Werl for the old Herkulessaal of the Munich royal residence. The holdings are supplemented with a selection of sculptural works from the Bayerische Nationalmuseum collection.

The branch gallery is located in Burghausen Castle.

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Burg zu Burghausen
84489 Burghausen

T +49 (0)871 92411 0 

Opening hours
April-September: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
October-March: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Closed on:
01 January, Shrove Tuesday, December 24/25/31

Admission
5 Euro | regular
4 Euro | reduced

This collection includes Late Gothic panel paintings and sculptures from the Swabian-Bavarian and Allgaeu region, works which are well matched to the location of the castle and its great hall. A large part of the holdings stem from the collection of Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein, which was acquired by Bavarian King Ludwig I in 1828. These works include the famous five panels with scenes from the legend of St. Magnus, and the impressive depictions of "war" and "plague" that were executed by a painter from Upper Swabia in 1510.

The branch gallery is located in the Hohes Schloss in Fuessen.

Website of the city of Füssen

Address
Hohes Schloss
Magnusplatz 10
87622 Füssen

T +49 (0)8362 940 162 (Information desk)
T +49 (0)8362 903 191 

Opening hours
April - October I Tuesday - Sunday
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

November - March I Friday - Sunday
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Admission
6 Euro | regular
4 Euro | reduced
9 Euro | Combination Ticket Museums

The Neuburg branch gallery is one of the youngest branch galleries of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Pianting Collections): Opened in 2005, in the year of the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg, it was created in a historic location. After all, it was the court church in Neuburg for which the two altarpieces with "The Adoration of the Shepherds" and "The Descending of the Holy Spirit" by Peter Paul Rubens were painted in 1619. They once flanked the main altarpiece, "The Great Last Judgment" (today at the Alte Pinakothek), the altarpieces now form the highlight of the branch gallery in Neuburg Palace.

The gallery is devoted exclusively to Flemish Baroque painting: over 120 paintings, including important works by major masters such as Rubens, Anthonis van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens, are there to be discovered. Characteristic of Flemish painting is the diversity of genres. History, portrait, landscape, still life, hunting and genre painting are represented in the Neuburg State Gallery by important examples of the best masters of their respective fields. These include Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Francken the Younger, Frans Snyders, David Teniers the Younger, and Lucas van Uden, among many others.

The branch gallery is located in the west wing of the Palace in Neuburg an der Donau.

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Schloss Neuburg an der Donau
Residenzstrasse 2
86633 Neuburg an der Donau

T +49 (0)8431 64430

Opening hours
April-September: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
October-March: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Monday closed

Closed on:
January 1, Shrove Tuesday, December 24, 25 and 31.

Admission
6 Euro | regular
5 Euro | reduced

Numerous paintings in this gallery collection – Swabian, and especially Late Gothic altar panels from the Allgaeu region – were completed for the Benedictine monastery in Ottobeuren. Especially noteworthy are the panels done by an anonymous master from around 1450, which depict the moral lessons of the immaculate chasteness of the Virgin Mary in 27 individual scenes. The holdings are rounded out by a selection of 17th and 18th century paintings, including works by Giovanni Battista Pittoni.

Website of the Benedictine Monastery in Ottobeuren

Address
Benediktinerabtei Ottobeuren
Sebastian-Kneipp-Strasse 1
87724 Ottobeuren

T +49 (0)8332 7980

Opening hours

Palm Sunday to All Saints' Day
10 a.m.-12 noon and 2 p.m.-5 p.m. (closed Good Friday)

26 December to 06 January
10 a.m.-12 noon and 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

At other times, the monastery is open to groups by arrangement; please register in advance at the monastery gate (T +49 (0)8332 7980).

Access via the monastery museum

In the former summer palace of the Prince Elector Max Emanuel a distinguished painting gallery is open to the public and has been set up to supplement the holdings of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. All European schools of the 17th and 18th centuries are represented here with important works. The focus is on Italian and Flemish paintings, which are exhibited in the magnificent "Large Gallery". In the northern part of the Large Gallery and the adjoining rooms, works by Lodovico Carracci, Guercino, Carlo Saraceni, Luca Giordano, Carlo Dolci and Jacopo Amigoni are presented; in the Elector's apartments in the south works by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthonis van Dyck and David Teniers the Younger, among others, can be admired. The ground floor is dedicated to German, Dutch, French and Spanish painting; there, for example, the famous "Cycle of the Twelve Months" by Joachim von Sandrart and portraits by Joseph Vivien can be viewed.

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Neues Schloss
Max-Emanuel-Platz 1
85765 Oberschleißheim

T +49 (0)89 315872-0

Opening hours
April-September: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
October-March: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Monday closed

Closed on:
01 January, Shrove Tuesday, December 24/25/31

Admission
6 Euro | regular
5 Euro | reduced

Combination ticket (Old Palace / New Palace / Lustheim Palace)
10 Euro | regular
8 Euro | reduced

Norwegian artist Olaf Gulbransson (1873–1958) first gained international attention as a draughtsman for Munich’s legendary satirical magazine Simplicissimus, and eventually became one the shrewdest caricaturists of his time. In 1929 he settled at Tegernsee and purchased the fabled Schererhof, and it was here that he created the majority of his work. The distinctive graphic quality of Gulbransson’s works remains impressive to this day; Luis Murschetz called him a titan of the art of drawing. In 1966, the Olaf Gulbransson Museum was built in Tegernsee, designed by Sep Ruf. Since 1974, it has operated as a branch gallery of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections), managed by the Olaf Gulbransson Gesellschaft e.V. The museum’s permanent exhibition presents a selection of outstanding caricatures by Olaf Gulbransson, his rare and delicately rendered oil paintings, as well as an extensive collection of his celebrated book illustrations such as Ludwig Thoma’s Lausbubengeschichten, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, and Gulbransson’s own autobiography Es war einmal. Since 2008, special exhibitions of works by related artists have been shown in an annex financed through third-party funds. 

Website of the Olaf Gulbransson Museum

Address
Olaf Gulbransson Museum, Tegernsee
Im Kurgarten 5
83684 Tegernsee

T +49 (0)8022 3338

Opening hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday closed

Easter Monday and Whit Monday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
31 December: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Closed on:
January 01, Shrove Tuesday, December 24 / 25

Admission
12 Euro | regular
10 Euro | reduced
6 Euro | Tegernsee Card

The Würzburg branch gallery of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) invites you on a journey through the great centuries of Venetian painting. The gallery is located in the north wing of the Prince-Bishop's residence, world famous for the magnificent architecture by Balthasar Neumann and the spectacular frescos by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Renaissance paintings from the workshop of Titian and Veronese, by Palma Giovane and the Bassanos recall the splendid tradition of the art and trade metropolis of Venice. Outstanding works by Amigoni, Piazzetta, Pittoni and Tiepolo stand as a testimony to the European dominance of Venetian painting in the 18th century. The exhibited devotional and historical pictures, allegories and portraits offer a variety of insights into the social, political and religious life of the lagoon city. Two unusual history paintings by Joseph Heintz the Younger even show Venice as a city of celebrations and amusement.

Website of the Bavarian Palace Administration

Address
Residenz Würzburg
Residenzplatz
97070 Würzburg

T +49 (0) 931 35517 0

Opening hours
April-October: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
November-March: 10 a.m.-4.30 p.m.

Closed on:
Januar 01, Shrove Tuesday, December 24 / 25 / 31

Admission
9 Euro | regular
8 Euro | reduced