Schack Collection
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thumb|right|Schack-Galerie on Prinzregentenstraße The Schack-Galerie, also referred to as Sammlung Schack (the collection Schack) is a museum in Munich. It is one of the main permanent art galleries in the city and primarily covers 19th century German art. The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Picture Collection.
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- Official website
- www.pinakothek.de/en/visit/sammlung-schack
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- Commons category
- Sammlung Schack
- Commons gallery
- Sammlung Schack
- hashtag
- SammlungSchack
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- Sammlung Schack
- native label
- Sammlung Schack
- postal code
- 80538
- visitors per year
- 14927
- inception
- 1865-00-00
- street address
- Prinzregentenstraße 9
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thumb|right|Schack-Galerie on Prinzregentenstraße The Schack-Galerie, also referred to as Sammlung Schack (the collection Schack) is a museum in Munich. It is one of the main permanent art galleries in the city and primarily covers 19th century German art. The museum is under supervision of the Bavarian State Picture Collection.
==Collection== In 1855, Adolf Friedrich von Schack settled in Munich and became a member of the academy of sciences. Shack amassed a collection of paintings that included masterpieces of Romanticism, in particular by German painters. These included Anselm Feuerbach, Moritz von Schwind, Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Lenbach, Carl Spitzweg, Carl Rottmann, and others. Upon his death in 1894, he bequeathed the collection to the Emperor William II, however it remained in Munich. The collection includes some 180 paintings.
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