Munich: Kunstareal

Leo von Klenze's Old Pinakothek from 1836, in its time the biggest museum structure worldwide and shining example for galleries from Rome to St. Petersburg forms together with the New Pinakothek the core of the Kunstareal (art area). Both museums house magnificent masterpieces of historical European painting and sculpture and thanks to the collection of the Pinakothek of Modern Art reach far into the 20th century. Furthermore the Kunstareal houses the State Antiquities Collection, the Glyptothek, the State Graphics Collection and the famous Lehnbachhaus known for the masterpieces of the expressionist movement Der Blaue Reiter "The Blue Rider".