The Dietmar Siegert Collection
The Neue Pinakothek has an outstanding collection of paintings evoking Italy’s legendary status as a focus of romantic yearning. Many of the paintings were acquired for the collection by its founder, King Ludwig I. Since last year, the Neue Pinakothek has also held an important collection of early photographs of Italian scenes: some 9700 images in all, dating from the period between 1846 and 1900, which were purchased from Dietmar Siegert by the Pinakotheks-Verein, with the support from the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, and presented to the museum on permanent loan. Now the exhibition ‘Heroic and Idyllic’ offers an insight into the wealth of this newly acquired collection, with a display of around 100 selected images by the most famous photographers.
![Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London](https://apollo-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MPL2022_4263.jpg)
Sitting pretty: the world’s best museum benches