Munich: Propylaea

View from the west

Just 200 years ago, the site of today's Königsplatz was surrounded by fields. In the 19th century, Georg Friedrich Ziebland and Leo von Klenze, commissioned by King Ludwig I, built the Glyptothek, the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Propylaea there. This "Isar-Athens" combined art and culture and expressed an attachment to the Kingdom of Greece. Already around 1900, the square was used for festivities. The photograph by the Dresden Kunstdruck-Anstalt Römmler & Jonas dates from 1892.