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Bavaria had acquired it from the collection of Fritz Thyssen. [2] [3] In 2013, the Bavarian State Painting Collections agreed to return two watercolours by Max Pechstein to the heirs of Professor Curt Glaser, confirming that the auction of his art collection and library were entirely due to Nazi persecution. [4] [5]
The Bavarian National Museum (German: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum) in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the largest art museums in Germany. [citation needed] Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two main groups: the art historical collection and the folklore collection.
The Neue Pinakothek, re-built in 1981, covers nineteenth-century art, and Pinakothek der Moderne, opened in 2002, exhibits modern art. All three galleries are part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, an organization of the Free state of Bavaria. [3]
Schloss Johannisburg Aschaffenburg. The Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg ("State Gallery Aschaffenburg") is an art museum in Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg, Germany.With some 368 paintings, it is the largest of the galleries outside Munich making up the Bavarian State Painting Collections.
Gertrud Weinhold Ecumenical Collection (branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum, Old Palace) East and West Prussia Collection (Bavarian National Museum, Old Palace) Meißen porcelain collection (Bavarian National Museum, Lustheim Palace) Gallery of baroque paintings (part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, New Palace)
In 1987 philanthropists Dominique and John de Menil opened their vast art collection, which includes pieces by René Magritte, Henri Matisse, and Mark Rothko, with a museum designed by Renzo Piano.
The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, which houses an expanded collection of more than 3.000 European paintings from classicism to Art Nouveau. About 400 paintings and 50 sculptures of these are exhibited in the New Pinakothek. Francisco de Goya, Plucked Turkey (1810).
The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçə anˈtiːkənˌzamlʊŋən], State Collections of Antiquities) is a museum in Munich's Kunstareal holding Bavaria's collections of antiquities from Greece, Etruria and Rome, though the sculpture collection is located in the Glyptothek opposite, and works created in Bavaria are on display in a separate museum. [1]