Originally this building was erected by Max Littmann in 1907 for the Prussian legation. The important picture collection of the German Romantic Period was amassed by Count Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack. He donated his remarkable private collection to Kaiser Wilhelm II. who ordered that the collection should be left in Munich. In 1911 it was housed in a separate wing of the building belonging to the Prussian legation. Until 1939 the picture collection was owned by the Prussian State. Under Hitler it had to be given to the Bavarian State Collection of Pictures.
The whole collection comprises about 270 pictures with numerous highlights of e.g. Moritz von Schwind, Arnold Böcklin and Anselm Feuerbach. You can also find pictures of the famous Munich painter Carl Spitzweg, as e.g. "Farewell" or "Hypochondriac".
Since 1998 the building also houses the Bayerische Elite-Akademie.
Opening hours: daily (except Tue) 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Bus 53 to Reitmoorstraße