Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the premier museum in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia . The museum, founded in 1897, is located on the site of the so-called The Domain . Admission to the general exhibitions with works of Australian art (from European settlement to the present day) as well as European and Asian art is free.

history

The Art Gallery of New South Wales circa 1900

In the 1870s, an art academy was established in Sydney to serve art education, art class education, and art exhibitions. To this end, the government should provide funds to display the first works of art in Australia in a museum. The collection was housed in different buildings until 1885. The building with the classical facade was built between 1896 and 1909 and expanded in the 1970s and 1980s.

The ancient cultures of the Romans, Greeks, Assyrians and Egyptians are symbolically represented on the building facade. The first two picture exhibitions opened in 1897, two more followed in 1899, and an exhibition of watercolors took place in 1901. In 1958, the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act 1958 gave the museum its current name The Art Gallery of New South Wales .

collection

The collection was established in 1871, and the Academy of Arts early bought some great works from Europe, such as Ford Madox Brown Chaucer at the Court of Edward III . Later works by Australian artists such as Streeton's 1891 Fire's on , Roberts 1894 The Golden Fleece and McCubbin 1896 On the wallaby track were purchased.

The museum has work by numerous Australian artists, including 19th century artists such as John Glover , Arthur Streeton , Eugene von Guerard , John Russell , Tom Roberts , David Davies , Charles Conder , William Piguenit , E. Phillips Fox , Frederick McCubbin , Sydney Long and George W. Lambert .

20th century Australian artists will starring Hugh Ramsay, Rupert Bunny , Grace Cossington Smith , Roland Wakelin , Margaret Preston , William Dobell , Sidney Nolan , Russell Drysdale , James Gleeson , Arthur Boyd , Lloyd Rees , John Olsen , Fred Williams , Brett Whiteley and Imants Tillers .

The museum exhibits 44 works that were shown in the exhibition 100 masterpieces of Australian painting in 1973.

The museum has an extensive collection of Victorian art by Lord Frederic Leighton and Sir Edward John Poynter , as well as Dutch, French and Italian paintings from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries by Peter Paul Rubens , Canaletto , Agnolo Bronzino , Domenico Beccafumi and Nicolò dell'Abbate and European Modernism by Pierre Bonnard , Georges Braque , Pablo Picasso , Auguste Rodin , Claude Monet , Paul Cézanne , Camille Pissarro , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Alberto Giacometti and Giorgio Morandi as well as by modern British masters.

Web links

Commons : Art Gallery of New South Wales  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artgallery.nsw.gov.au : History , accessed on July 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Works cited in the document '100 masterpieces of Australian painting (1973)' , Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved January 9, 2011.

Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′ 7.3 ″  S , 151 ° 13 ′ 1.7 ″  E