Artizon Museum
The Artizon Museum ( Japanese ア ー テ ィ ゾ ン 美術館 , Artizon Bijutsukan ), until 2019 Bridgestone Museum of Art , is an art museum in Tokyo . It houses the works of art collected by Ishibashi Shōjirō , the company founder of the tire manufacturer Bridgestone .
history
The museum was founded in 1952 as the Bridgestone Museum of Art and was located in the administrative building of the Bridgestone Tire Company in the Kyōbashi district of the Chūō municipality for the next few decades . The museum founder Ishibashi Shōjirō (1889-1976) transferred the museum in 1956 to the Ishibashi Foundation he founded , which also includes the Ishibashi Museum of Art for Japanese art in his hometown of Kurume . In 1961, Ishibashi donated most of his art collection to the Bridgestone Museum of Art, which has been continuously expanded since then. In 2015 the museum was closed and then the building was demolished. The new high-rise Museum Tower Kyobashi with 23 floors was built in the same place by 2019 . The museum occupies the first 6 floors of the new building, which is mainly used as an office building, with the exhibition space on the 4th to 6th floors. Overall, the museum was able to expand its area considerably in the new building and double the exhibition area to 2,100 m². At the opening in 2020, the Bridgestone Museum of Art was renamed the Artizon Museum. The term Artizon is made up of the words Art (Art) and Horizon ( Horizon ).
collection
The focus of the collection is on European Impressionist , Late Impressionist and Modernist painting , as well as Japanese artists from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1960s. The earliest paintings in the museum include individual works by Rembrandt van Rijn , Jean-Baptiste Pater and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . French Romanticism and the Barbizon School are represented in the museum by artists such as Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Gustave Courbet , Charles-François Daubigny , Honoré Daumier , Eugène Delacroix and Jean-François Millet . The collection of impressionist paintings shows seven works by Claude Monet and six works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir . There are also three works by Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas , as well as paintings by Eugène Boudin , Adolphe Monticelli , Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley in this area of the collection . With five works, Paul Cézanne is the best presented artist of the subsequent Late Impressionism. The collection of this style is complemented by paintings by Paul Gauguin , Vincent van Gogh and Gustave Moreau .
In addition to the European artists of the 19th century, the museum also has a small collection of Japanese artists who have been influenced by European painting since the Romantic period. These include Aoki Shigeru , Asai Chū , Fujishima Takeji , Fujita Tsuguharu , Kishida Ryūsei and Koide Narashige . From Western modern painting, the museum shows works by Pierre Bonnard , Emile Antoine Bourdelle , Georges Braque , Giorgio de Chirico , Maurice Denis , Pierre Alechinsky , Bernard Buffet , Marc Chagall , Antoni Clave , Hans Hofmann , Serge Poliakoff , Jackson Pollock and Pierre Soulages . Here, too, examples of Japanese artists are contrasted with the western works. This group includes Domoto Hisao , Kawabata Minoru , Nomiyama Gyōji , Saitō Yoshishige , Sugai Kumi , Sugimata Tadashi , Tabuchi Yasukazu and Zao Wou-Ki .
The museum also has an extensive collection of graphic works, including works by Edvard Munch and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . A small collection with sculptures by Alexander Archipenko , Emile Antoine Bourdelle , Constantin Brâncuși , Honoré Daumier , Edgar Degas , Alberto Giacometti , Barbara Hepworth , Aristide Maillol and Marino Marini is also part of the museum's holdings. The museum also has a selection of ancient art from Egypt, Syria and Greece, as well as the Etruscans and Sumerians .
Exhibited works
Gustave Moreau:
La Toilette
Camille Pissarro:
The harvest
Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
Georgette Charpentier seated
Édouard Manet:
Self-Portrait with a Cap
Henri Rousseau:
Meadows
Vincent van Gogh:
Le Moulin de Blute-Fin
Paul Cézanne:
Self-Portrait with a Felt Hat
Paul Gauguin:
View of the Sainte-Marguerite in the vicinity of Pont-Aven
literature
- Bridgestone Museum of Art: masterpieces from the collection . Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo 1985
- Tomiyama Hideo: 50 years of the Bridgestone Museum of Art, 1952–2002 . Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo 2003. ISBN 4-901528-02-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the new building at www.skyscrapercenter.com
- ↑ Information on the renovation and renaming on the Artizon Museum website
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 44 ″ N , 139 ° 46 ′ 19 ″ E