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Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
Society (documenting images that captured moments that shifted public acquaintance with political, social, cultural and environmental issues); War (pivotal moments of conflict and associated violence); and; Science and Nature (capturing technological triumphs, defeats and horrors). The three subsections are:
The Neue Pinakothek (German: [ˈnɔʏ.ə pinakoˈteːk], New Pinacotheca) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world. [citation needed]
In February 1938, Death tells how a young girl called Liesel Meminger had piqued his interest. In one of the opening scenes, Liesel steals her first book, titled The Grave Digger's Handbook, after her brothers death, when it falls out of the gravedigger's pocket. She meets her new foster parents Rosa Hubermann and Hans Hubermann in Munich.
In 2021, the Bavarian State Paintings Collections refused to allow Germany's national tribunal that reviews claims of art lost in the Nazi era to review the case of Picasso's Madame Soler, which the family of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had claimed. "It is simply inexplicable that the state should refuse to use a mediation mechanism it ...
The Best of Life, 1973 David E. Scherman (March 2, 1916 – May 5, 1997) was an American photojournalist and editor. Born in Manhattan to a Celia née Harris and William Scherman, [ 1 ] Jewish family, [ 2 ] he grew up in New Rochelle, New York and then attended Dartmouth College .
The Gänseliesel (English: Goose Girl, Goose Lizzy (Liesel as pet name of Elisabeth)) is a fountain which was erected in 1901 in front of the medieval town hall of Göttingen, Germany. Although rather small in size, the fountain is the best-known landmark of the city.
The ground floor shows alternating exhibitions of one of the most important collection of works on paper in Germany, with old German, Dutch and Italian drawings (including masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci) and German and international drawings of the 19th–21st centuries, e.g. by Paul Cézanne ...