Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Munich, Germany

The bronze female figures The Mourners are a monument created by the sculptor Karl Kroher for a memorial in the domed hall of the Royal Bavarian Ministry of Transport in Arnulfstraße in Munich, which was destroyed in the Second World War. The figures were cast by the Ferdinand von Miller ore foundry in Munich. They have a height of about 2.80 meters. From 1973 to 2020, three of the figures – one had been lost since its destruction in the war – stood in the green area of the Federal Railway Directorate in Richelstraße in Munich's Neuhausen district. The fourth figure, which was in private ownership, was found by chance. Since 2020, all four figures have been set up in the nearby courtyard of DB Mobility Logistics.

Wikipedia: Die Trauernden (DE)

Mariä Heimsuchung is a Catholic parish church in Munich, Germany. It was built from 1933 to 1934 in neo-Romanesque style by Oswald Bieber and government architect William Hollweck. The new building was necessary due to the strong growth of the mother parish of St. Rupert.

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St. Benedict's Church is a parish church in Munich, Germany, located in the Schwanthalerhöhe of the city.

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Franz Mayer of Munich is a German stained glass design and manufacturing company, based in Munich, Germany and a major exponent of the Munich style of stained glass, that has been active throughout most of the world for over 170 years. The firm was popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and was the principal provider of stained glass to the large Roman Catholic churches that were constructed throughout the world during that period. Franz Mayer of Munich were stained glass artists to the Holy See and consequently were popular with Roman Catholic clients. The family business is nowadays managed by the fifth generation and works in conjunction with renowned artists around the world.

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Löwenbräukeller is a beer hall and event center located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It has hosted concerts by artists such as Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne and Kiss.

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Münchner Theater für Kinder is a theatre located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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The Lenbachhaus is a building housing the Städtische Galerie art museum in Munich's Kunstareal.

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The Palaeontological Museum in Germany, is a German national natural history museum located in the city of Munich, Bavaria. It is associated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. It has a large collection of fossils of animals and plants such as Mesozoic reptiles, early elephants and saber-toothed cats. The paleontological and geological institute which houses the museum is formally called the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, which itself is one of several institutions which make up the Bavarian Natural History Collections.

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Nusser & Baumgart is an art gallery for contemporary art in Munich, founded in 2003 by Gregor Nusser and Susanne Baumgart.

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The University of Music and Theatre Munich, also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is the former Führerbau of the NSDAP, located at Arcisstraße 12, on the eastern side of the Königsplatz. Teaching and other events also take place at Luisenstraße 37a, Gasteig, the Prinzregententheater, and in Wilhelmstraße (ballet). Since 2008, the Richard Strauss Conservatory, until then independent, has formed part of the university.

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Geologisches Museum München is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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The Propylaea is a city gate in Munich at the west side of Königsplatz.

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Münchner Haus der Kulturinstitute is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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The Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism is an institution of the City of Munich together with the Free State of Bavaria and the Federal Republic of Germany.

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The Prinz-Georg-Palais at Karolinenplatz 5 is a detached building that is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

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The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is an archaeological museum in Munich. It contains the Bavarian state collection of ancient Egyptian art and displays exhibits from both the predynastic and dynastic periods. The associated small Middle East section displays objects from the areas of Assyrian and Babylonian culture. For decades, the Egyptian museum was located in the Munich Residenz, but it was moved to the Kunstareal in June 2013.

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Present Continuous is a monumental sculpture by the Dutch sculptor Henk Visch, which was erected in May 2011 between the entrance of the new building of the University of Television and Film and the entrance of the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich on a green strip along Gabelsbergerstraße.

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The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pinakothek refers to the time period covered by the collection—from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. The Neue Pinakothek, re-built in 1981, covers nineteenth-century art, and Pinakothek der Moderne, opened in 2002, exhibits modern art. All three galleries are part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, an organization of the Free state of Bavaria.

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Large Biga is a monumental bronze sculpture by Fritz Koenig. The artwork dates from 2000 and was erected in Munich in front of the Alte Pinakothek in the Maxvorstadt district, in the Munich Art District. A biga is a two-wheeled cart pulled by a pair of horses and driven by a driver. Bigas were used in ancient Rome for exhibition fights and chariot races. The sculpture stylizes an ancient Roman chariot, with horses and man. Carriage, horses and man merge into a unit.

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Double Column 23/70 is a stainless steel sculpture by Erich Hauser from 1970. The seven-metre-high sculpture was erected in 1984 in Munich in the Maxvorstadt district on the green strip between the Alte Pinakothek and the Neue Pinakothek. It is part of the Pinakothek Sculpture Park, which has been established in the Munich Art Area in recent decades. The column was part of the Theo Wormland Collection until 2013 and was on permanent loan to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, which received it as a donation from the foundation in 2013.

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Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, catalogued as LH 606, and created in 1969–70.

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Große Zwei V is a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Fritz Koenig from 1973. It measures 262 × 164.5 × 65 cm and is located in Munich in the Maxvorstadt district in the immediate vicinity of the Neue Pinakothek in the Kunstareal München.

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Buscando la Luz II is a monumental sculpture by Eduardo Chillida. It is the second in a series of four works of art of the same name: Buscando la Luz I (1997) and Buscando la Luz III (2000) are located in the sculpture park of the Chillida Leku Museum in Spain, Buscando la Luz IV (2001) on the grounds of the University of Qatar in Doha.

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Die Neue Sammlung is one of the leading design museums in the world, with the largest collection of industrial and product design.

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A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres high and 8 metres in diameter.

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The Pinakothek der Moderne is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's Kunstareal.

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The Museum Reich der Kristalle is the publicly accessible part of the Mineralogischen Staatssammlung of Munich, Germany. It features explanations of mineralogical and crystallographic terms using models. It also showcases minerals local to Bavaria. The museum has a few small displays as well as a showroom which hosts special exhibitions.

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Raimund Thomas is a German gallery owner and art dealer for German Expressionism, Classical Modernism, and Modern and Contemporary Art.

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The Catholic Parish and University Church St. Louis, called Ludwigskirche, in Munich is a monumental church in Neo-Romanesque style with the second-largest altar fresco of the world. The building, with its round arches called the Rundbogenstil, strongly influenced other church architecture, train stations and synagogues in both Germany and the United States.

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