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Leo von Klenze
pinacotheca
pinacotheca (Greek: ‘picture repository’). A name originally applied to a picture gallery in the Propylaea (gateway) of the Acropolis at Athens; it was open to the public by the 2nd century
ad. The word was adopted by the Romans for galleries of private collectors, and in modern times it has been applied to numerous public galleries in Italy (for example the
Vatican Pinacoteca) and a few in other countries, notably the Alte Pinakothek (Old Picture Gallery) in Munich. This was built by the art-loving King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868; reigned 1825–48) and was opened in 1836; the architect was Leo von Klenze and the design is a kind of free interpretation of a very large
Renaissance palazzo. Originally it was called simply the Pinakothek, but it was renamed Alte Pinakothek when a gallery for more recent pictures—the Neue Pinakothek—opened in 1853. The Alte Pinakothek has one of the world's greatest collections of Old Masters, particularly rich in German Renaissance works.
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City of the arts revisited: the way that Munich's art galleries have been restored and added to after World War II reveals how architects can transcend a difficult historical legacy.(ARCHITECTURE)(Munich, Germany)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...these buildings were by Leo von Klenze, the principal architect...first half of the century. Klenze was responsible for two...Glyptothek. Designed by Klenze in 1816 to house Ludwig...as does that of Alexander von Branca, the Munich-born...
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Walhalla trumpets its greeting from remote hillside.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 10/12/1997; ; 589 words
; ...German Temple of Fame built between 1830 and 1842 by Leo von Klenze, the renowned architect hired by King Ludwig I of Bavaria...in the barren German countryside; it's almost as if von Klenze flew to Athens, picked up the Parthenon and deposited...
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Variety and continuity
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...at Paestum and Pompeii, and the work of Schinkel, von Klenze, Soane, 'Greek' Thomson and - so appropriately here...double-height hall consciously reminiscent of those by Leo von Klenze at the Hermitage. Beyond this, via a shift in axis...
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Looking at museums that are smaller only in size
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/3/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...acknowledged as Europe's first sculpture gallery. Designed by Leo von Klenze in a classical style that incorporates elements of Greek...by Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge and Anton von Maron. Sir John Soane's Museum, London: Fanciers of...
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I want to be alone Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...famous hermitage is the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, which did indeed begin life as a retreat for Catherine the Great in the garden of the Winter Palace. Nicholas I commissioned the German architect Leo von Klenze to design the
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Cultural anxiety in Anna Jameson's art criticism.(The Nineteen Century)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...distributed throughout various palaces. The national gallery, or Pinakothek, which is now building under the direction of Leo von Klenze, is destined to contain a selection from these multifarious treasures of which the present arrangement is only temporary...
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Munich: York Membery visits the capital of Bavaria and explores the historic heart of this twenty-first century metropolis--and its annual beer festival.(TRAVEL TO THE PAST)(Travel narrative)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...among them those of the Ancestral Gallery and the Ornate Rooms) and the neo-classical King's Tract, designed by Leo von Klenze. Bavaria's other most famous royal palace--Schloss Nymphenburg--lies just to the west of Munich. In was built...
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THE STIRLING PANEL MUST TRANSCEND STYLISTIC AND IDEOLOGICAL BIAS
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 8/2/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...rigorous and refined proportional rhythm; an exemplary work of minimalist Classical character that uncannily recalls Leo von Klenze's neo-Grecian Walhalla, built in Regensburg in 1842. It is poised on a very similar promontory overlooking an...
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048 Museum Brandhorst.
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...in Europe, most significantly the Alte Pinakothek (Old Art Gallery), a magnificent work of neo-classicism by Leo von Klenze, inaugurated in 1836. More recently, the Kunstareal has added buildings in the 1970s (the Neue Pinakothek) and...
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Thomas Hope: regency designer.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...designer rivals that of the great German masters Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) and Franz Leopold (Leo) Karl von Klenze (1784-1864): he was influenced by the work of Charles Percier-Bassant (1764-1838) and Pierre-Francois...
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Leo von Klenze
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Leo von Klenze , 1784-1864, German architect and landscape and portrait painter. He was court architect to Jérôme Bonaparte...
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Klenze, Leo von
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Klenze, Leo von (1784–1864...Under Ludwig's aegis Klenze created many of Munich's...Aegina, discovered by Haller von Hallerstein and others in 1811...project with a Pantheon-dome , Klenze's realized building is a...
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Haller, Karl Christoph Joachim, Freiherr von Hallerstein
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Haller, Karl Christoph Joachim, Freiherr von Hallerstein (1774–1817). German architect...x2014;1814) combined Greek and Egyptian elements. Leo von Klenze built both projects to his own designs, retaining Haller...
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German architecture
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...1772) by Balthasar Neuman, and masterpieces by Fischer von Erlach and Matthaeus Pöppelmann. In the late...buildings in Berlin and Munich by Friedrich Schinkel, Leo von Klenze and others. New materials such as cast iron were exploited...
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Hermitage
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...extensively reconstructed in sumptuous style and Nicholas I added a custom-built museum, designed by the German architect Leo von Klenze. This building, known as the New Hermitage, was opened to the public in 1852. After the 1917 Revolution the imperial...
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