Lenbachhaus

Art museum in Munich, Germany

Lenbachhaus
The Lenbachhaus (German: [ˈlɛnbaxˌhaʊs]) is a building housing the Städtische Galerie (English: Municipal Gallery) art museum in Munich's Kunstareal. The building. The Lenbachhaus was built as a Florentine-style villa for the painter Franz von Lenbach between 1887 and 1891 by Gabriel von Seidl and was expanded 1927–1929 by Hans Grässel and again 1969–1972 by Heinrich Volbehr and Rudolf Thönnessen. Some of the rooms have kept their original design. The city of Munich acquired the building in 1924 and opened a museum there in 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenbachhaus

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