Word: pinakothek
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...director of Munich's Alte Pinakothek, Dr. Ernst Buchner, was ready for World War II the day it came. Years before, he had sought out and established Alpine hideaways for his masterpieces. When war was declared on Sept. 3, 1939, Buchner closed the doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings...
...German primitive room of Munich's famed Old Pinakothek Museum, Grant Wood on one of his few trips to Europe saw a grimy, meticulous little man painstakingly copying a 15th-Century panel with layer upon layer of tempera glaze. Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S. scene. Back to Cedar Rapids he went, shaved off his pink whiskers, settled down to being the Breughel of the Com Belt among the dentists, butchers, farmers and shopkeepers with whom he was brought...