23 October 2008 – 19 January 2009

THE FAR VIEW – LANDSCAPE OF THE HAGUE SCHOOL

In collaboration with and showing works on loans from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Neue Pinakothek is holding an exhibition on the Hague School. The focus of the exhibition is not so much on the school itself – one that was so important to German Realists associated with Max Liebermann – but rather on their view of Dutch landscape, which from approximately 1875 onwards had to give way to increasing urbanisation and industrialization. With its display of some 90 paintings, watercolours and historical photographs, the cultural-historical perspective of the exhibition traces the invention of a landscape that is still regarded today as typically Dutch. At the same time, the Neue Pinakothek is holding an exhibition entitled »Nature as artifice – Natur als Kunstgriff« with contemporary photographs of Dutch landscape.

Address

Neue Pinakothek
Kunstareal München Barer Strasse 29; Eingang: TheresienStrasse
80799 München
phone +49 89 23 80 51 95
http://www.pinakothek.de

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wednesday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Tuesday

Description of the Museum

European Painting and Sculpture of the 18th and 19th Centuries

The Neue Pinakothek offers an overview of European art from classicism to art nouveau. Its founder was King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who opened the museum in 1853 and had it built to house his privately financed collection of works by contemporary artists. Following the destruction of the museum during the Second World War and temporary exhibition of the collection in the Haus der Kunst, a new building, designed by architect Alexander von Branca, was opened in 1981. Thanks to expansion of the collection through endowments and purchases, the Neue Pinakothek is now the most important museum of art of the nineteenth century in the world.

New building opened 1981; architect: Alexander von Branca

Within 10 days
starting exhibitions
ending exhibitions