Word: pinakothek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Died. Ernst Buchner, 70, longtime director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections who. in anticipation of World War II, removed one of the world's finest art collections from Munich's Alte Pinakothek, safely hid the more than 1,000 masterpieces in salt mines, and after the war campaigned to rebuild the bombed-out gallery where in 1957 the collection again went on view; of a heart attack; in Munich...
Against the Moon, Another great disciple of Dürer was the little-known Albrecht Altdorfer, who worked chiefly as an architect and lives through no more than two dozen surviving pictures. As a painter, he ranks close to Durer himself. The Pinakothek has six Altdorfers, including the fabulous picture of the battle of Alexander and Darius at Gaugamela. Napoleon once confiscated the painting, and reportedly hung it in his bathroom at Saint Cloud. Five feet high and painted in the meticulous lapidary manner of a miniature throughout, the picture so absorbed Altdorfer that in order to be free...