Art Institute of Chicago

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Chicago Art Institute, main portal at 111 South Michigan Avenue, May 2007
One of the bronze lions on Michigan Avenue main portal by Edward Kemeys (1893)

The Art Institute of Chicago is an art museum founded in 1866 , connected to the art college that has been operating since 1866, renamed School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in Chicago , Illinois , ( USA ) in 1882 .

The Art Institute of Chicago was founded on the initiative of wealthy citizens who donated their own collections or set up funds to buy works of art. Examples are the collections of Arthur Jerome Eddy , Bertha Honoré Palmer , Martin Antoine Ryerson and Annie Swan Coburn .

Art collection

Stairwell in the Art Institute
Applied arts at the Chicago Art Institute
Vincent van Gogh : Self-portrait , oil on cardboard 42 × 33.7 cm, Paris spring 1887
Paul Gauguin : No te aha oe riri (Why are you angry?), Oil on canvas 95.3 × 130.5 cm, 1896
Amedeo Modigliani : Jacques Lipchitz and his wife, oil on canvas 80.2 × 53.5 cm, 1917

The Chicago Art Institute is a universal art museum with a collection of 300,000 works of art and culture from five millennia, which are housed in the large building complex, but only a small part is shown in the permanent collection. The collection is presented thematically and spatially on two floors, in so-called buildings , which are usually named after the sponsors. The Art Institute is affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) , which currently trains 2000 students. With 1.4 million visitors annually, the museum is one of the city's main tourist attractions.

The museum is famous for its collection of Impressionists , Post-Impressionists and American art. In the museum you will find well-known works such as Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait , Claude Monet's haystack , Camille Pissarro's The Crystal Palace, London , Georges Seurat's Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte , Amedeo Modigliani's portrait of Jacques Lipchitz with his wife , Grant Woods American Gothic and Edward Hoppers Nighthawks . It also houses the life's work of photographer Irving Penn .

In addition, the house also shows art from the 20th century, including works by German artists, such as the work Filzanzug by Joseph Beuys from 1970. Gerhard Richter is with the remarkable, abstract group of works Eis ( Ice ) and with the painting Woman, the stairs descending (Woman Descending the Staircase) from 1965. Another modern art museum in Chicago is the Museum of Contemporary Art .

Allerton Building

Chinese bronze and ceramics, African art , weapons, armor and ivory carvings are on display in the Allerton Building . A point of attraction in this building is the collection of European painting from the 15th to the 19th century. Claude Monet , Paul Gauguin , Paul Cézanne , but also Rembrandt van Rijn's “Old Man with the Gold Chain” can be found here. The upper floor also houses the architecture collection with a focus on the architectural history of Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe are the well-known names here. The photography collection, which emerged from the collection of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1949, can be seen in the basement .

Rice Building

The Rice Building houses the collection of Egyptian , Greek and Roman art . The richly decorated sarcophagus of an Egyptian temple guard and the bust of the emperor Hadrian made of white marble should be emphasized . The American Art Department includes paintings , sculptures , but also jewelry and furniture from two centuries, while the European Decorative Arts Department includes cultural objects from the Middle Ages to the present day.

With over 1000 paintings and sculptures of 20th century art , the upper floor of the Rice Building is a magnet for visitors who will find great works of American and European art here. Names such as Pablo Picasso , Constantin Brâncuși , Amedeo Modigliani , Georgia O'Keeffe , Jackson Pollock , Eva Hesse , Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter only hint at the scope of the collection.

Rubloff Building

The Rubloff Building shows European and non-European textile art : silk , fabric prints , fabrics and velvet , as well as historical costumes from all parts of the world. The building on Columbus Drive also houses the old trading floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange , which was designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler in 1892 . The rooms of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with their lecture rooms and workshops can also be found here.

architecture

The first building on South Michigan Avenue was designed by architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, serving at the World Expo 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition , the Congress Center. It is located on Grant Park, in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District . The legendary Armory Show had its second exhibition here after New York from March 24 to April 16, 1913.

The Modern Wing opened in May 2009, the largest expansion in the museum's history to date, making the Art Institute the second largest museum in the United States. The 24,500 m² building was designed by Renzo Piano .

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- SAIC -
founding 1866
Sponsorship Private
place Chicago
President Walter E. Massey
Students 3098 (2009)
Employee 141 full-time + 427 part-time
Website www.saic.edu

history

In 1866, 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design in one studio. The intention was to run an independent school with an attached art gallery. In 1878 the school had high debts and had to file for bankruptcy. The facility was taken over by the specially founded Chicago Academy of Fine Arts . In 1882 the name was changed to the current name Art Institute of Chicago .

The school is privately owned and has around 3000 students. The current president is the American architect and urban planner Wellington Reiter (as of 2010).

Course offer

At the SAIC, it is possible to study all arts subjects. It trains in free art and technology as well as in art theory, art history, art criticism, art education and art therapy. The school offers classes in applied arts such as fashion design, architecture, monument preservation, interior design, and ceramics. The free art departments offer painting and drawing, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, film, sound and video, visual communication and creative writing. There is also a comprehensive program of humanities and natural science subjects. A degree with an academic degree is possible after a previous undergraduate and bachelor's degree.

Personalities

Lecturers

students

Web links

Commons : Art Institute of Chicago  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
Commons : School of the Art Institute of Chicago  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Beuys: Filzanzug , 1970 , accessed on May 7, 2009
  2. ↑ Gerhard Richter: Works Group Ice 1-4 , accessed on November 4, 2008
  3. ↑ Gerhard Richter: Woman, going down the stairs , accessed on November 4, 2008
  4. ^ School of the Art Institute of Chicago: History and Quick Facts (English). Accessed March 21, 2010

Coordinates: 41 ° 52 ′ 46 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 26"  W.