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Also known as Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

The Lenbachhaus () is a building housing the Städtische Galerie (English: Municipal Gallery) art museum in Munich's Kunstareal.

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Museum.name
Lenbachhaus
Museum.image
2013-05-04 Lenbachhaus Muenchen-8.jpg
Museum.caption
Before the reopening in 2013
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Museum.location
Munich, Germany

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
art museum
Country
Germany
Located in
Munich
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
www.lenbachhaus.de
Image
Lenbachhaus, 2023.jpg
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Commons category
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Commons Institution page
Lenbachhaus
inception
1891-00-00
street address
Luisenstraße 33
date of official opening
1929-00-00
social media followers
6465
hashtag
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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • The building
  • The gallery
  • Munich painters
  • German Schools of Painting and Barbizon
  • The Blue Rider
  • New Objectivity
  • Contemporary art
  • Gallery
  • Provenance Research
  • References
  • External links

The Lenbachhaus () is a building housing the Städtische Galerie (English: Municipal Gallery) art museum in Munich's Kunstareal.

== The building == thumb|New modern wing of the Lenbachhaus The Lenbachhaus was built as a Florentine-style villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach between 1887 and 1891 by Gabriel von Seidl and was expanded 1927–1929 by Hans Grässel and again 1969–1972 by Heinrich Volbehr and Rudolf Thönnessen. Some of the rooms have kept their original design.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lenbachhaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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