One of the museum we visited so far in Munich is the Alte Pinakothek. In all fairness, the main reason we ended up there was because the Neue Pinakothek is closed and the van Gogh’s sunflowers are now exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek 🙂 This is one of the 4 original sunflowers van Gogh painted in 1888, so it’s pretty important and unique.
However, there are very nice paintings in there and an extremely impressive collection of huge Rubens paintings. They also have one of the biggest Arcimboldo collection I have seen in one place.
Google Art & Culture has created a virtual gallery for the Alte Pinakothek.
The museum staff was on the rude side but it seems to be something that we encounter a lot in museums here….
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888Gustav Klimt, Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein, 1905Giovanni Segantini, Ploughing, 1890Ferdinand Hodler, The tired of life, 1892A. Rodin, Helene von Nostiz, 1907J. W. M. Turner, Oestend, 1844Peter Paul Rubens, The Great Last Judgment, ca. 1617Rubes, The Woman of the Apocalypse, 1623/25Rubens, Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower, ca. 1609/10P. P. Rubens and Pieter Snayers, Henry IV at the battle of Arques, ca. 1630/31P. P. Rubens,Ferdinand Bol, The Governors of Amsterdam Wine Merchant’s Guild, 1659Francois Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1756Pieter Janssens, Woman Reading, ca. 1665-1670Adriaen Brouwer, Card players scuffling in a tavern, ca. 1632/33Arcimboldo, Spring, 1598Arcimboldo, Summer (left side) and Winter, ca. 1598
