. Romantic Germany. said onceto me that, in his opinion, this was the greatest pic-ture ever painted. The building itself has servedfor generations as a type of the ideal home for pic-tures. The New Pinakothek, a companion struc-ture, holds a representative assemblage of modernGerman paintings, while the Schack Gallery has anunequaled collection of Bocklin and of Schwind, thatGrimm of the easel who fixed on canvas the veryessence of medieval romance and fairy-lore. In thefascinating new National Museum I found a vividresume of the complete artistic history of the Ba-varians, a collection unriv
. Romantic Germany. said onceto me that, in his opinion, this was the greatest pic-ture ever painted. The building itself has servedfor generations as a type of the ideal home for pic-tures. The New Pinakothek, a companion struc-ture, holds a representative assemblage of modernGerman paintings, while the Schack Gallery has anunequaled collection of Bocklin and of Schwind, thatGrimm of the easel who fixed on canvas the veryessence of medieval romance and fairy-lore. In thefascinating new National Museum I found a vividresume of the complete artistic history of the Ba-varians, a collection unrivaled in its setting, andrivaled alone in its content by the Germanic Museumat Nuremberg. It was typical of the place that awhole floor should be given over to those tender,miniature representations of the Nativity which theGermans call Krippen. The Glyptothek holds anassemblage of masterpieces of Greek sculpture theequal of which cannot be found short of Rome orParis. This is the home of the Barberini Faun, the 802. KARLS PLACE, LOOKING TOWARD KARLS GATE, AND THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY MUNICH—A CITY OF GOOD NATURE Rondanini Medusa, and the famous pedimentgroups from ^Egina. But despite all these signs of a rare artistic cul-ture, it is plain that the Miinchener has one passionpassing his devotion to painting, sculpture, andarchitecture: he is at heart a child of the open air,and might sincerely say with Landor, Nature I lovd, and next to Nature, Art. ^ Through and through he is a devotee of those en-chanted mountains the snow-capped summits ofwhich lend the finishing touch to a distant view ofhis city; and toward whose forests and gem-like lakeshe instinctively turns with Rucksack and staff when-ever his work is done. In those leagues of groveand stream called the English Garden; in the bloom-ing wood-ways along the riverside; and in the flashesof turf and blossom and foliage that punctuate hiscity the Miinchener seems forever proclaiming. My hearts in the highlands. And indeed t
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