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The History of the Neue Pinakothek
1807
In 1809 Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria purchases the first
painting from a contemporary artist, the “Büßenden
Magdalena” (Penitent Magdalena or Magdalena Atoning for
her Sins) from Heinrich Füger.
1825
Ascension of King Ludwig I. The collection of temporary art
is steadily enlarged.
1841
Ludwig I purchases Leo von Klenze’s collection, containing
58 paintings by contemporary artists, including landscapes
and genre paintings by Carl Rottmann, Franz Ludwig Catel, Georg
von Dillis, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Peter von Hess and
others.
1846
On October 12, the cornerstone is laid for the building of
the Neue Pinakothek.
1853
On October 25 the Neue Pinakothek is open to the public. It
is the first museum in the world dedicated to a permanent exhibition
of paintings by contemporary artists. According to the first
printed catalogue, the collection on exhibit consisted of 302
paintings that are the private property of the king. Ludwig
I continues to add to the collection by buying paintings.
1855
Purchase of Carl Theodor von Piloty’s “Seni vor
der Leiche Wallensteins” (Seni before the body of Wallenstein,1855)
1859
Purchase of Arnold Böcklin’s “Pan im Schilf “(Pan
in the Reeds,1859).
1868
The death of King Ludwig I. The collection of the Neue Pinakothek
consists of 425 paintings.
1870
Purchase of Anselm Feuerbach’s “Medea” by
Ludwig II.
1880ies
The Bavarian state hesitantly begins to purchase paintings
from contemporary artists for exhibition in the Neue Pinakothek.
1890
Wilhelm Leibl’s “Bauernstube” (Farmerhouse
Parlour) enters the collection in 1890, the first work by this
artist in the Neue Pinakothek.
1891
Konrad Fiedler, Friend and patron of Hans von Marées’,
donates 19 of the artist’s works to the collection. Among
them are: the triptych, “Hesperides” and “Werbung” (Advertisement).
Max Liebermann’s “Frau mit Geißen in den
Dünen” (Woman with Nanny Goat in the Dunes) is purchased
at the annual exhibition in the Glass Palace in Munich.
1909/14
Hugo von Tschudi is appointed general director of the State
Collections and is instrumental in acquiring 44 paintings,
nine sculptures and 22 drawings, mostly from new French artists.
As public funds can not be used to purchase the works, it is
up to Tschudi’s associates Heinz Braune and his Berlin
patrons Eduard Arnhold and Paul and Robert Mendelssohn to come
up with the money from private contributions, after his death
in 1911. Making up the so-called “Tschudi Contribution” are
major works of the collection, such as those by Manet, Monet,
van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne.
1915
After year-long negotiations with the administration of the
royal properties, the Neue Pinakothek becomes the property
of the state. The state acquires the property and the building,
but the paintings belonging to the original royal collection
remain the property of the royal household.
1920
Following reconstruction and reorganization of the collection,
the Neue Pinakothek presents its self in new form. The number
of paintings on display has been reduced by 350. The creation
of the “New State Gallery”(forerunner of today’s “Sammlung
Moderne Kunst” (Collection of Modern Art) in the Pinakothek
der Moderne) in the Art Exhibition Building on Königsplatz
is fraught with consequences.
1938
The re-opening of the newly furnished Neue Pinakothek. The
exhibited works range from German painting of the 18th century
to the “Deutschrömer” and the Leibl Circle.
Vicent van Gogh’s self portrait, up to this point exhibited
in the State Gallery of Modern Art, is confiscated and labled “degenerate.” It
is sold in 1939.
1944/45
The building of the Neue Pinakothek is badly damaged during
the bombing of Munich.
1949
The ruin of the Neue Pinakothek ist demolished.
1947-79
Selected works from the Alte and Neue Pinakotheks and the State
Gallery of Modern Art are temporarily exhibited in the Haus
der Kunst on Prinzregententrasse.
1953
The foundation of the “Association for the Support of
the Alte and Neue Pinakothek” (Verein zur Förderung
der Alten und Neuen Pinakothek).
1966/1967
Munich Architect Alexander Freiherr (Baron) von Branca wins
the competition for ideas for a new building to house an art
gallery on the property of the former Neue Pinakothek.
1975
On July 16, the cornerstone for a new building for the Neue
Pinakothek by Alexander Baron von Brancas is laid.
1981
On March 28 the Neue Pinakothek is opened. The range of the
exhibited painting and sculpture now extends from the beginning
of rococo and international classicism to art of the turn of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
2002
After six years of construction the Pinakothek der Moderne
is opened as a museum for art of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. The “Sammlung Moderne Kunst “shares
the new building with the “Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung” the “Neue
Sammlung” (Design Collection) and the “Architekturmuseum
der Technischen Universität München” (the Architecture
Museum of the Technical University Munich). The years before
the First World War again form the dividing line between the
Neue Pinakothek and the Pinakothek der Moderne.
2003
On October 25, the Neue Pinakothek celebrates the 150th anniversary
of its existence. For this occasion the collection is newly
presented and the Rottmann Room is opened, in which 14 wall
panels of the Greek Cycle by Carl Rottmann are seen together
in the Neue Pinakothek for the first time since 1939.
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