Schackgalerie

The collection Schack (until 2009 Schack-Galerie ) in Munich Prinzregentenstraße originated from the art collection of Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack and is now part of the Bavarian State Picture Collections.

History

Graf von Schack was a patron who supported the Munich artists. His collection contains mainly the works of the 19th century, including by Arnold Böcklin, Moritz von Schwind, Franz Spranger, Carl Spitzweg, Carl Rottmann, Anselm Feuerbach, Eduard Gerhardt and other works of German history and landscape painter. Even a writer and poet Schack loved music and onomatopoeic poetry. As a collector, he preferred the subjects mythology and distant travel.

Eduard Gerhardt designed in 1862 following the example of the neighboring Glyptothek by Leo von Klenze the first gallery building in the grounds of Schack's Palace at the Briennerstraße, which has been converted in 1865 by Henry of hills and 1872-1874 by Lorenz Gedon with a facade in the forms of neo was expanded and rebuilt.

Until his death in 1894 was purchased by Count Schack some two hundred paintings by German artists and about seventy copies of old master paintings, including masterpieces of Venetian painting as Giorgione's Pastoral Concert and Titian's Pesaro Madonna, Venus of Urbino and portrait of Emperor Charles V.. One of the painters of the copies was Franz Spranger, for the Count Schack to the best paintings of the 19th century include copies of which Titian copies in Germany.

The collection remained unchanged to this day and is considered an important example of the art preferences of a private collector in the 19th century, in which the romantic images and intellectual world of that era reflected.

Schack bequeathed the collection to the German emperor Wilhelm II. 1909, the collection moved to a newly built by Max Littmann Gallery building at the Prince Regent street, connected to the Prussian Legation.

In the 2000s this building was extensively renovated. In 2008, the ground floor was reopened in 2009 and the first floor with gallery halls and used for musical and literary events large copy room.

Gallery

• Other artworks of the Schack-Galerie

Anselm Feuerbach - Paolo and Francesca, 1864

Franz Spranger - Hirtenknabe 1860

Arnold Böcklin - Villa by the sea II 1865

Carl Spitzweg - Hypochondriac 1865