Neue Pinakothek
The Neue Pinakothek—Neue Pinakothek in German, often translated as the “New Pinacotheca”—is built around a clear idea: showing European painting from the 18th and 19th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the art of the nineteenth century. Ludwig I of Bavaria began collecting contemporary art as crown prince in 1809, and when the museum was founded, he fixed a practical separation from the “old masters” at the Alte Pinakothek. That curatorial split, anchored in the period shortly before the turn of the 19th century, became a model for galleries across Europe. Construction began in the 1850s, and the building was completed in 1859—intended as Europe’s first museum for contemporary painting. The ground floor included displays of 186 plaster busts of contemporary celebrities. …
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