Neue Pinakothek

This guide to the Neue Pinakothek in Munich opens in 1909, when Kaiser Wilhelm the Second fired Berlin's national gallery director, Hugo von Tschudi, over a single painting he judged degenerate. It follows Tschudi to Munich, where Bavarian law barred the state from buying the modern French paintings he wanted, and the workaround he found among the city's wealthy collectors. Best heard slowly, room by room, in the order the paintings are hung.