Bavaria’s Painting Collections Face Tumult as Director Leaves and Claims of ‘Organizational Failure’ Fly

The former Munich cultural consultant Anton Biebl will not only lead the museum initiative of the Free State. Now he is also Director General of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. An enormous challenge in the face of new serious accusations.

Bavaria’s Painting Collections Face Tumult as Director Leaves and Claims of ‘Organizational Failure’ Fly

The Bavaria State Painting Collections, an organization that stewards famed paintings shown at many of Munich’s top museums, is currently the subject of further controversy in Germany following a change in its leadership and reports of an internal investigation resulting from claims of “organizational failure.” Earlier this year, the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung released a bombshell report stating that there were far more Nazi-looted…