Glyptothek
The Glyptothek was commissioned by Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures, giving Munich a cultural “German Athens” in stone. Designed by Leo von Klenze in a neoclassical style, the museum was built from 1816 to 1830, and it opened as one of the city’s earliest public museums—today the oldest public museum in Munich. Its place in the wider Königsplatz complex is deliberate: Ludwig imagined ancient Greece remembered “in front of the gates of Munich,” with the Glyptothek arranged on the north side of the forum-like layout designed in 1815 by Karl von Fischer and Klenze. Ludwig’s collecting was active even before opening: through agents he acquired works including the Medusa Rondanini and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple on Aegina. In the Second World War, much artwork survived, but the frescoes did not—after the museum reopened in 1972, the walls were only lightly plastered bricks. …
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