iAlte PinakothekKunstareal, Maxvorstadt
From Turner to van Gogh: The 19th Century
Masterpieces from the closed Neue Pinakothek on display at the Alte Pinakothek, spanning Romanticism to early Modernism: Friedrich, Manet, Monet, Cézanne and van Gogh.
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The Dürers and Rubenses are upstairs, but start on the ground floor. In Room I, Monet's Water Lilies, two metres wide, shares the walls with van Gogh's Sunflowers: twelve blooms in a vase against blue-green.
They're here because the Neue Pinakothek across the road is shut for a full renovation until 2029, so its 19th-century highlights moved into this east wing (others went to the Sammlung Schack). The run goes from Classicism and Romanticism, with Caspar David Friedrich and Turner's 1844 Ostend, through Manet, Monet and Cézanne to van Gogh. New in this hang are groups by the Realists Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and Adolph Menzel, which couldn't be shown in recent years, plus one cabinet of Symbolist and fin-de-siècle interiors. It's the museum version of moving in with friends while the landlord finally fixes your flat.
There's no separate ticket: regular admission is €9 (€6 reduced), €1 on Sundays, and free for under-18s. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays it stays open until 8pm.
Editor's pick
Turner's Ostende hangs on the Alte Pinakothek's ground floor with Friedrich, Manet, Monet, Cézanne and van Gogh: the Neue Pinakothek's 19th-century highlights, rehoused while their own building is under renovation. Dürer and Rubens are upstairs.
Look for
Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Look in Room I for twelve sunflowers in a vase against a blue-green background, painted in 1888 and given to the Munich collection in 1912.
Monet's Water Lilies
A late canvas from around 1915, about 1.5 by 2 metres of lily pond, hanging in Room I beside the Sunflowers.
Monet's Seine Bridge at Argenteuil
In Room II, Monet's 1874 view of the bridge over the Seine at Argenteuil, a 1912 gift to the museum.
Turner's Ostend
In Room III, Turner's 1844 view of the Belgian port, the kind of extreme-weather sea picture the museum says pushed his late work toward abstraction.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- First-Timers
- Rainy Days
With kids
Under-18s get in free at all the Pinakotheken.
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Image credits
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- From Turner to van Gogh: The 19th CenturyJ. M. W. Turner / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Between and Beyond: Interspaces and Transitions in Art since 1960Foto: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sibylle Forster © Estate of Dan Flavin / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
- Klarenbeek & Dros: Design of the UnusualPhoto: Klarenbeek & Dros
- Alte PinakothekChronox-A / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- State Museum of Egyptian ArtFred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Pinakothek der ModerneRufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum BrandhorstMartin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 3.0
- GlyptothekDaderot, Public domain