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...movement, and complementing the ever-shifting silhouette of the spot-lit sculpture. In the past, the original sculpture has only been set in motion during weekly demonstrations due to its fragility, while the label directed viewers to a video made available online. Paintings by Max Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Through Jan. 6, 2008 The three paintings by Max Beckmann on loan from the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich each represent very different stages in the German painter’s life and career. The earliest, “Dance in Baden-Baden?...
...city of Munich, a terrible uproar arose as crowds of young nudists began nonchalantly strolling alongside fully clothed pedestrians in the famous 600-acre Englische Garten. The young strippers quickly became a major tourist attraction, even threatening to rival the rosy Rubens nudes in the city's Alte Pinakothek. But the burghers of Munich were not amused...
...wholly new dimension that this humanistic revelation gave religious art can be seen superbly in the treasures of Munich's Alte Pinakothek, one of the world's oldest royal repositories of art. A testimony to the taste of the Wittelsbachs, who passionately collected more than 80,000 works of art, the 130-year-old Pinakothek's bounty of art works, including many paintings invisible to the public for decades, has been restored today to the luster that first seduced kings (see color pages...
With greater directness, the Pinakothek's altarpiece by Holbein the Elder (see overleaf) barkens back to the medieval tradition that aimed at letting art speak out the Gospel truth. The work spells out the Scriptures visually, spares earthen colors, such as ochers and umbers, to enhance the clashing confrontation, as in the cloaks, of liquidy greens and reds. The carved and gilded frames are showpieces of Gothic craftsmanship, but within the woodcarving can be seen classic marble columns, first tentative annunciation that the new spirit of the Renaissance was beginning to blow through German art. And the Virgin...
...Leopoldstrasse. There are plenty of alternative diversions. Munich's many art galleries include the famed Alte Pinakothek, with its splendid collections of DÜrer, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian and Rubens. Munich claims to be the birthplace of modern art, and indeed its Blaue Reiter group pioneered in the abstract movement; Munich's galleries today are loaded with the works of Kandinsky and Klee. Schwabing, the city's bohemian quarter, which won its reputation thanks to Kandinsky & Co., is still an art center, with more than 2,000 painters and sculptors at work...