Ōhara Art Museum

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Ōhara Art Museum
大 原 美術館
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Main building of the Ōhara art museum
Data
place Kurashiki , Okayama Prefecture
Art
Private art museum of Western and Japanese art
opening 1930
management
Website
El Greco: Annunciation
Cezanne: landscape

The Ōhara Art Museum ( Japanese 大 原 美術館 , Ōhara Bijutsukan ) in Kurashiki ( Okayama Prefecture ) was the first museum in Japan to deal almost exclusively with French art of the 19th and 20th centuries. After various expansions, the museum also owns important collections of modern Japanese art.

history

The entrepreneur Ōhara Magosaburō (1880-1943) was interested in acquiring Western art and was advised by the painter Kojima Torajirō (1881-1929) and the French artist Edmond Aman-Jean (1860-1935). The main building with a front section in the style of a Greek temple, beautifully situated on the willow tree-lined Kurashikigawa, opened in 1930. In 1961 another building was built behind the main building for Japanese paintings from the first half of the 20th century and a building for ceramics from the 20th century. In 1963 a wing was added for woodcuts by Munakata and for color printing by Serizawa. These latter two buildings now form the "House of Applied Arts" (Kōgeikan). In 1972, the “Kojima Torajirō Memorial Hall” was finally built on the ivy-covered “Ivory Square”, the center of Ōhara's former weaving building complex.

The "temple", which had become too small, was cleverly rebuilt and expanded. The garden that surrounds the outbuildings makes a relaxing visit possible.

The collection

In addition to the numerous artists of the “ École de Paris ”, among whom there are also those who are not so well-known only because of their smaller work volume, there is above all El Greco with an excellent work “Annunciation”, Ferdinand Hodler with a “woodcutter” version , Munch seen with numerous printing. Rodin and Bourdelle (including a Beethoven bust) are represented with well-known sculptures. The Japanese are also well represented with paintings, the woodcuts by Munakata. In the arts and crafts sector, in addition to Serizawa, the potters Tomimoto, Leach, Hamada and Kawai are well represented, the latter being particularly comprehensive.

Western artists (selection)

Japanese painters (selection)

Applied arts

literature

  • Laurence P. Roberts: Roberts' Guide to Japanese Museums of Art and Archeology. Simul Press, 1987. ISBN 4-377-50737-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ohara Museum of Art  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 35 ′ 46 "  N , 133 ° 46 ′ 15.6"  E