Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art gallery in Delaware Park in the city of Buffalo in the US state of New York and is one of the outstanding exhibition venues for modern and contemporary art in the United States and beyond. Buffalo State College is directly opposite .
history
The museum is operated by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy . This art association was founded in Buffalo in 1862, making it one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy had long had the idea of an art gallery for the city and on the occasion of the Pan-American Exposition planned for 1901, the wealthy industrialist and art patron John J. Albright began building a pavilion for the fine arts (Fine Arts Pavilion) . The well-known local architect Edward Brodhead Green directed the construction project. Due to delays, the building was not completed in time for the Pan-American Exposition . In 1905 the gallery named after its founder, the Albright Gallery, was opened. It is one of the oldest museums in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . In 1962, donations from Seymour H. Knox, Jr. and his family, as well as other private donors, allowed the gallery to expand, which was renamed the Albright-Knox Art Gallery . The architect of the structural extensions was Gordon Bunshaft , who also designed the Lever House in New York City.
collection
The museum exhibits works of art from impressionism and post-impressionism , as well as works from the 19th century. It exhibits works by Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh . The “revolutionary” style of the early 20th century is also exhibited in works of Cubism , Surrealism and Constructivism in works by Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque , Henri Matisse , André Derain , Joan Miró , Piet Mondrian and Alexander Rodchenko .
The development of modern art is shown in images of Abstract Expressionism , including works from American and European art from the post-war period to Pop Art and other art from the 1970s. Works by leading artists such as Arshile Gorky , Franz Kline , Willem de Kooning , Robert Motherwell , Mark Rothko , Jackson Pollock , Clyfford Still and Andy Warhol can be seen. The contemporary art collection includes works by Kiki Smith , Allan Graham , Georg Baselitz , John Connell , Heiner Thiel and Per Kirkeby , for example .
The gallery also owns works from earlier eras, such as William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, and works from the Middle Ages.
Position of ancient art
In June 2007, the gallery auctioned an ancient bronze statue of Artemis in New York for $ 28.6 million, at that time one of the highest prices ever paid for sculptures of this kind. The sculpture went into private ownership. The auction triggered the question of the museum's core mission, which museum director Louis Grachos repeated in 2007 as a “collection of contemporary art” and thus justified the sale of the ancient statue. However, this challenged the collection of many of the works on display in the gallery, and the public was presented with a list of "secured" non-modern works that were not intended to be sold. The whereabouts of William Hogarth's Lady's Last Stake and Joshua Reynolds Cupid as a Link Boy were confirmed, as was the works by Gustave Courbet , Honoré Daumier , Jacques-Louis David and Eugène Delacroix , which had just been acquired in the previous years . The discussion about a museum's collection project, even if managed on the basis of guidelines, as well as the questions of the funding of museums shows the challenge of art funding in a largely privately financed art sphere in the United States, in contrast to the often state-funded museums in Europe.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. z. B. J B. Townsend: 100: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1862-1962. Buffalo, NY, 1962
- ↑ "Artemis" fetches a staggering sum " The Buffalo News , 7 June 2007 ( Memento of 18 April 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Accessed September 2008
- ↑ "Albright-Knox rakes it in" Art In America , September 2007
- ^ Lee Rosenbaum, "Mission Creep: Albright-Knox Belatedly Releases Its Complete Deaccession List," Arts Journal
- ↑ Bruce Jackson: The War Against the Albright-Knox. In: American Association of Museums ( Memento from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 42 ° 55 '56.8 " N , 78 ° 52' 32.1" W.