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German artist Sabine Hornig’s “Through the Window” at Pinakothek der Modern

November 26, 2011 by  
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MUNICH.- Sabine Hornig, born in 1964, is one of the most internationally celebrated German artists of her generation. Her photographic and sculptural work, created at the crossroads between photography, sculpture and site-specific installation, is both artistically independent and artistically unconventional at once and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of photography as a contemporary art form. Sabine Hornig, Window with No Back Wall, 2006. 120 x 140 x 3 cm (glass), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. At the heart of [...]

Alte Pinakothek’s Celebrates Their 175th Anniversary with the Exhibition “Concealed/Revealed”

July 10, 2011 by  
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MUNICH.- “Concealed/Revealed” is the fourth exhibition in the series celebrating the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th anniversary. The enigmatic title stands for a subject of enormous multiplicity. The exhibition is on view until September 18th, 2011. Infrared reflectographs of underdrawings that – apart from a few exceptions – have never been seen before by a general audience, is on display. The Alte Pinakothek’s anniversary year is the perfect occasion to exhibit the best examples produced by digital infrared reflectography in the field of German [...]

Selected Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder on View at Alte Pinakothek in Munich

MUNICH.- The third exhibition to mark the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th anniversary comprises 30 selected paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) from the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen’s extensive holdings. It is the first Cranach exhibition in the Alte Pinakothek. The exhibition is on display from April 14 and runs until July 17, 2011. A man walks past the paintings (L-R), ‘St. Anna Selbdritt’ (1516), ‘Abraham’s Sacrifice’ (1530) and ‘Adam and Eve’ (around 1510) after a press conference of the exhibition ‘Cranach in Bavaria’ [...]

Alte Pinakothek Celebrates 175th Anniversary with a Series of Blockbuster Exhibitions

March 30, 2011 by  
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MUNICH.- In 2011 the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen is marking the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th anniversary with a wide range of events. Opened to the public on 16 October, 1836, Leo von Klenze’s seminal museum building today still provides the architectural framework for collections of paintings assembled in Munich around 1800 by various branches of the Wittelsbach dynasty, together with King Ludwig I’s later acquisitions. Queen Paola of Belgium (R) is guided through the Alte Pinakothek museum by curator Miriam Neumeister (L) in [...]

Alte Pinakothek Exhibits Painting by Johannes Vermeer as Part of Its 175th Anniversary

MUNICH.- The Alte Pinakothek welcomes a very special guest to its 175th anniversary: Johannes Vermeer’s “Woman Holding a Balance” from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The exhibition is on display until June 16, 2011. In the early 19th century, this exquisite masterpiece once formed part of the exceptional private collection amassed by the first king of Bavaria, Max I Joseph (1756-1825). He focused almost exclusively on 17th-century Dutch masters, mostly landscapes and genre paintings. To these he added [...]

A Retrospective in the Alte Pinakothek on Arnulf Rainer’s 80th Birthday

June 11, 2010 by  
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MUNICH.- Following the exhibition of sculptures by Cy Twombly in 2006, the Pinakothek der Moderne will pay homage to another contemporary artist with an exhibition in the Alte Pinakothek: Arnulf Rainer. On the occasion of the Austrian painter’s 80th birthday, a concise exhibition will focus on central work groups, several of which have never before been presented. These include a series of paintings that were expressly created after paintings in the Alte Pinakothek, and which thereby quintessentially take up Rainer’s [...]