Schack Collection, Art museum at Prinzregentenstrasse, Munich, Germany.
The Schack Collection is a gallery of 19th-century German painting housed in a sandstone building on Prinzregentenstraße, built by Max Littmann in 1907–1909 alongside the former Prussian embassy. Its collection of around 180 paintings, assembled by Adolf Friedrich von Schack, includes works by Anselm Feuerbach, Moritz von Schwind, Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Lenbach, Carl Spitzweg and Carl Rottmann. The façade carries an imperial coat of arms and a dedication by William II in the tympanum.
Adolf Friedrich von Schack moved to Munich in 1856 and bought his first painting in 1857, Bonaventura Genelli's Vision of Ezekiel. He then acquired whole groups of works to support Munich artists directly. His 1874 will left the collection to the German Emperor; Wilhelm II kept it in Munich and had Max Littmann build the Prinzregentenstrasse gallery, opened on 18 September 1909.
The collection displays works exploring German legends and ancient mythology through Romantic visual language that appealed to 19th-century viewers. You can see how artists translated these stories into paintings and what narrative choices they made.
The gallery stands at Prinzregentenstraße 4, at the corner of Reitmorstraße, beside the former Prussian legation. It was built in 1907–1909 by Max Littmann and opened on 18 September 1909. The entrance is reached from the Prinzregentenstraße side; the building shares a base and cornice with the legation next door.
A dedicated room displays reproductions of Venetian masterpieces from the 16th and 17th centuries that the founder commissioned specifically. These copies provide insight into the founder's collecting philosophy and his artistic interests.
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