iStadtLandschaft
Four centuries of graphic art depicting cities and landscapes: watercolours, prints and drawings of Munich, Augsburg, Nuremberg and Bavarian castles from the museum's graphic collection.
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Preview: written before the show opened
The print on the show's flyer is Munich's main square in the mid-1600s, when it was still the Schrannenplatz, the grain market. People gather in devotion at the Mariensäule, the column that still stands there. It's Marienplatz two centuries before the Neues Rathaus, so nobody in it is craning their neck for the Glockenspiel.
If you came in from Marienplatz, you've just stood on that spot. The show draws four centuries of watercolours, prints and drawings from the museum's recently conserved graphic collection: Munich, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Straubing, plus castles and palaces. Curator Sybe Wartena's point is that a view could record a place, show it off or idealise it, and that some sheets need background knowledge to place while others read easily today.
It's included in regular admission: €7, €1 on Sundays, free under 18, and open until 8pm on Thursdays. Wartena leads free German-language tours on 1 November at 2pm and 3 December at 6pm. The catalogue (about 160 pages) costs about €16.
Look for
Devotion at the Mariensäule, Johann Bartholomäus Kilian, c. 1650/65
Look for worshippers gathered at the Marian column on Munich's Schrannenplatz, the square you now know as Marienplatz, engraved in Augsburg in the mid-1600s.
St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, Johann Adam Delsenbach, 1715
A front view of Nuremberg's St. Lorenz church, drawn as the "Vorderes Ansehen" of its façade by a Nuremberg engraver.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
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Under-18s get in free.
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Image credits
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- StadtLandschaftCourtesy of Bavarian National Museum
- Stonehenge. Ancient Discoveries, New MysteriesCourtesy of Bavarian State Archaeological Collection
- Steina: PlaybackCourtesy of Haus der Kunst
- Exhibition of ExhibitionsPhoto: Judith Buss.
- Bavarian National MuseumRufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bavarian State Archaeological CollectionBurkhard Mücke / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Haus der KunstAvda / www.avda-foto.de, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum Villa StuckWikiolo, CC BY-SA 4.0