SAMMLUNG SCHACK
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This gallery is part of the Pinakothek museum complex. The collection of Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack is on display here.
This art gallery, which is part of the Pinakotheken, owes the richness of its collection to Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815-1894), a diplomat, writer and poet. At the age of 36, he chose to abandon his government duties to devote himself to the arts. An enlightened patron with a passion for the artists of his time, he built up an extraordinary private collection of German paintings from the second half of the 19th century. With approximately 180 paintings by German artists, including famous works by Arnold Böcklin, Moritz von Schwind, Franz von Lenbach, Hans von Marées, and Anselm Feuerbach, the Schack Collection is considered one of the most important museums of historical and landscape painting in Munich. The recently renovated museum is an attractive place. On the huge walls of the palace, you will be fascinated by works with a very oriental atmosphere by Böcklin, Feurbach, Marées or Preller. They are often perfect copies of paintings exhibited in the greatest museums of Europe, in Florence, Rome or Madrid. The themes of these works are ancient myths, modern literature from Dante and Petrarch to Goethe, and medieval German life with its legends and fairy tales. The collector's interests are reflected in his choice of paintings, genres and themes. He was not interested in realistic painting, but rather in an idealist conception of art, which naturally led him to the paintings of the Romantic artists.
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