Neue Pinakothek

After unpacking and settling in a bit, I went to the Neue Pinakothek. It was founded by Kind Ludwig I of Bavaria, to house his personal art collection. It was REALLY beautiful. Here's some of my favorite pieces:


A Degas statue


A Toulous-Letrec sketch


A BEAUTIFUL, huge painting by Arthur Georg von Ramburg entitled "The Court of Emperor Frederick II". My point and shoot sucks at colors, and this picture of it definitely doesn't do it justice. Let me see if I can find one online that looks better....

There. That's better. There were four huge canvases of his that were all gorgeous, look him up if you're into Austrian frescoes and genre paintings. Just beautiful.


This is by Heinrich Maria von Hess, entitled "Apollo and the Muses." Again, the colors on this in real life are brilliant and not done justice by my camera.


This was my favorite statue in the museum, a statue of Psyche by Wolf von Hoyer. It was pretty popular, it took me a few shots to get a picture of this without other people in it!

After wandering around the museum for a couple hours, I grabbed some iced coffee and walked around my new neighborhood. I live in north-ish Munich, in an area that I THINK is called Maxvorstadt. There are a lot of cute cafes and little shops around. Of course, since it is a Sunday, most of the shops were closed. But the cafes were all open, and the architecture around is ALWAYS open to look at. At the end of the street my flat is on I stumbled on to this beautiful church right beside the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Look at that. And just a 15 minute walk from my flat.

I'm slowly falling in love with all of the intricacies and eccentricities that Munich has to offer. There's a secondhand English-language bookstore a block away from my flat, and I'm going to stop by there after class tomorrow.