(right entrance area) The '''Alte Pinakothek's''' rather monolithic structure contains a treasure trove of the works of European masters between the 14th and 18th centuries. The collection reflects the eclectic tastes of the Wittelsbachs over four centuries, and is sorted by schools over two sprawling floors. Major displays include
Albrecht Dürer's Christ-like
Self-Portrait, his
The Four Apostles,
Raphael's paintings
The Canigiani Holy Family and
Madonna Tempi as well as
Peter Paul Rubens self-portrait
Honeysuckle Bower and his two-storey-high
Judgment Day. The gallery houses one of the world's most comprehensive Rubens collections. The
Madonna of the Carnation is the only painting of
Leonardo da Vinci in a German gallery. The
Neue Pinakothek is especially famous for its comprehensive collection of paintings of
Impressionism from
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Édouard Manet,
Claude Monet,
Paul Cézanne,
Paul Gauguin,
Edgar Degas,
Vincent van Gogh and many others. The
Pinakothek der Moderne unifies the
Bavarian State Collection of Modern and Contemporary Arts, the
National Collection of Works on Paper and the
Museum for Design and Applied Arts with the Munich Technical University's
Museum of Architecture in one building and is deemed one of the most important and popular museums of modern art in Europe. It houses indeed the largest collection of industrial design. The Collection of Works on Paper ranges from masterpieces of Albrecht Dürer,
Rembrandt,
Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to Paul Cézanne,
Henri Matisse,
Paul Klee and
David Hockney. It is owned by the nearby
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, a world-renowned collection of 400,000 prints, engravings and drawings dating back to the Renaissance. The Collection of Modern Art keeps a large collection of paintings of
Pablo Picasso,
Max Beckmann and of the painters of
Die Brücke. Before
World War I, the
Blaue Reiter group of artists worked in Munich. Many of their works can now be seen at the
Lenbachhaus. The modern
Museum Brandhorst focus on the work of
Andy Warhol and
Cy Twombly. An important collection of Greek and Roman art is held in the
Glyptothek and the
Staatliche Antikensammlung (State Antiquities Collection). King Ludwig I managed to acquire such famous pieces as the
Medusa Rondanini, the
Barberini Faun and the
figures from the Temple of Aphaea on
Aegina for the Glyptothek. The internationally renowned collection of antique pottery is outstanding. The
Museum für Abgüsse klassischer Bildwerke displays the world's most famous ancient Greek and Roman sculptures as plaster casts. The Kunstareal was further augmented by the completion of the
Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst (Egyptian Museum). This museum displays exhibits from all periods of Ancient Egypt's history but also reliefs from Assyria and a lion from the
Ishtar Gate of Babylon. Nearby the Kunstareal are several natural scientific museums of the Bavarian state, like the
Paläontologisches Museum München, the
Geological Museum and the
Museum Reich der Kristalle as the public part of the "Mineralogische Staatssammlung Muenchen" (Bavarian State Collection for Mineralogy). ==External links==