The Pinakothek Museums in Bavaria

The Bavarian State Painting Collections are world famous. Every year visitors from every corner of the globe flock to the Pinakotheken in Munich. But few of them realise that the high-quality stocks of this unique collection extend far beyond the city boundaries. This attractive volume now leads visitors for the first time through all 19 galleries of the State Painting Collections in Bavaria. Poussin resides in the palace of Schleißheim, Hans Holbein in St Catherines Church in Augsburg and Peter Paul Rubens in Neuburg an der Donau. But even the locations of the galleries ancient castles and magnifi cent palaces make attractive destinations for excursions. From medieval altarpieces to media installations, from Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol, from Ansbachto Würzburg: lavishly illustrated and in the words of the people who look after them, this volume tells of famous masterpieces, reveals hidden treasures and invites you to embark upon a journey through the past history and present day of the Pinakotheken in Bavaria.The works of the following artists are included::Albrecht Altdorfer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Ludolf Backhuysen, Hans Baldung, Max Beckmann, Johann Georg Bergmüller, Antonio Bellucci, Joseph Beuys, Abraham Bloemaert, Arnold Böcklin, Jan Both, François Boucher, Kerstin Brätsch, Jan Brueghel d. Ä., Hans Burgkmair d. Ä., Giacomo Caneva, Lucas Cranach d. Ä., Jacques-Louis David, Albrecht Dürer, Anthonis van Dyck, Anselm Feuerbach, Dan Flavin, Caspar David Friedrich, Jan Fyt, Luca Giordano, Vincent van Gogh, Olaf Gulbransson, Gerard Hoet, Hans Holbein d. Ä., Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Jannis Kounellis, Gerard de Lairesse, Franz von Lenbach, Max Liebermann, Jacob van Loo, Édouard Manet, Walter De Maria, Claude Monet, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Friedrich Overbeck, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, Raffael, Neo Rauch, Rembrandt, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Peter Paul Rubens, Rachel Ruysch, August Sander, Joachim von Sandrart, Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, Moritz von Schwind, Bernhard Strigel, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Tizian, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Cy Twombly, Otto van Veen, Paolo Veronese, Joseph Vivien, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Jan Weenix, Hans Werl, Rogier van der Weyden, Bartholomäus Zeitblom