Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art is an art museum in Baltimore that was founded in 1914. The museum's collection includes 90,000 works of art, including European and American art from the 13th century to the present day, as well as works of art and objects from Asia, Africa and pre-Columbian America. The Baltimore Museum of Art also has the largest collection of Henri Matisse's works . The museum also has two gardens showing sculptures from the 20th century and a library with over 70,000 volumes.
history
The Baltimore Museum of Art was founded in 1914 at the instigation of eight citizens of the city of Baltimore. Nine years later, in 1923, the museum's inaugural exhibition took place, which had been temporarily housed in the Garett Mansion . The following year, the Baltimore Museum of Art was granted a $ 1 million loan to build its own museum building. John Russell Pope , known for neoclassical buildings, was chosen as the architect . In the following years, the collection grew steadily through donations and acquisitions. In 1925 it was given a room with decorative art from around 1700 as a gift. Two years later, the painting Rinaldo and Armida by Anthonis van Dyck came into the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Arts, which was a central work of the European Art Collection. On April 18, 1929, the museum's own building opened.
In 1936 the museum hosted one of the earliest exhibitions of African art in the United States. In 1936 and 1937 it was also part of excavations in Antioch and as a result received Antioch mosaics for the collection. One of the first exhibitions of art by contemporary African American artists was shown at the museum in 1939. As a result, the Baltimore Museum of Art increasingly collected works of art by these artists and their ancestors. In 1950 the museum received one of the most important donations from the sisters Claribel and Etta Cone , whose collection included works by Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne , among others . This donation secured an internationally important collection of modern art for the Baltimore Museum of Art . In 1960, the museum management was allowed to curate the Biennale di Venezia .
In 1980 the museum opened the Wurtzburger Sculpture Garden , in 1988 the Levi Sculpture Garden , with which it created a park in the middle of Baltimore in which sculptures from the 20th century are shown. In 1982 the new east wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art opened, which offers space for temporary exhibitions, the museum shop, a restaurant and a lecture hall. The west wing was then opened in 1994 to expand the presentation of contemporary art. In 1996, the Lucas Collection of 19th century French art was acquired by the Maryland Institute College of Art , after having been on permanent loan there for 60 years. In 2001, the Baltimore Museum of Art opened the renovated space for the Cone Collection . On the occasion of the 100th birthday, over 30 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures from the period of German Expressionism will move into the museum at the beginning of 2014. The special exhibition is called "German Expressionism" and can be seen until October 2014.
collection
The Baltimore Museum of Art's collection is divided into the areas of African Art , American Art, Pre-Columbian Art, Ancient Art and Roman Mosaics from Antioch , Asian Art, Contemporary Art , European Art, Modern Art , Native American Art, Art from the Pacific Area, Graphics and textiles .
The collection of African art is one of the oldest and most important in the United States. Since 1954 the collectors Janet and Alan Wurtzburger made a large donation to the museum, this department has been part of the permanent exhibition. It includes over 2000 objects that cover a period from ancient times to the present day. For example, there are works and objects from ancient Egypt and the kingdoms of Bambara and Cuba , as well as from contemporary Africa. They also cover various types of works of art and objects. So are masks, jewelry, headdresses, textiles, ceremonial weapons and pottery. The Asian Art Collection includes works from India , China , Japan , Tibet , the Middle East and Southeast Asia . Chinese porcelain , mainly from the Tang Dynasty , makes up a significant part of this collection . Two particularly well-known works from the collection are a life-size Guanyin figure from the 15th century from Hebei Province and a horse figure from a tomb of the Han Dynasty . Works of art from Melanesia and Polynesia belong to the relatively small collection of art from the Pacific Islands. This is among the best in the United States and includes various objects such as clothing, ornaments, and jewelry. An outstanding piece of this collection is a tongalesisches breast ornament, which is decorated with birds and stars, and from Wal - Ivory exists and a conch shell is one of the largest known worldwide. Another is an 18th century Hawaiian royal necklace.
The art of pre-Columbian America is represented in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Arts by 59 cultural traditions. The works and objects cover a period from 2500 BC to 1500 AD. They are works of the Maya and Aztecs from Mesoamerica , the Chimú and Muisca of the Andes region of South America. Ceramic objects from western Mexico are particularly significant pieces in this collection. The collection of Indian art offers a cross-section of the culture of these peoples. You can see, for example, ceramic from the Acoma or ivory amulets from the Eskimos from the beginning of the 20th century.
Theodore Robinson:
In the Grove
Theodore Robinson:
Mother and Child by the Hearth
Francesco Guardi:
The Grand Canal in San Geremia , seen from an anchorage for the gondolas
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The collection also includes American art from the colonial era to the present day. These include works with a regional reference such as portraits of Rembrandt Peale and other members of his family, pieces of furniture that were painted by John Finlay and Hugh Finlay , or silver from the Samuel Kirk & Son factory . In addition, important works of American portrait painting of the 18th century, landscape painting of the 19th century, American impressionism and modernism are part of the collection.
Represented artists are, for example, Thomas Sully , Thomas Eakins , Thomas Hart Benton , John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam . The European Art Department shows important works of art such as Rinaldo and Armida by Anthony van Dyck or a portrait of Rembrandt van Rijn showing his son Titus . Other works include Frans Hals , Jean Siméon Chardin , Sandro Botticelli , Tizian , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Camille Pissarro . The important Cone Collection also includes 500 works by Henri Matisse , as well as others by Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh .
The collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art also includes Composition V by Piet Mondrian and works by André Masson , Marc Chagall , Wassily Kandinsky , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Pechstein . The contemporary art is with works by Jackson Pollock , Donald Judd , Sol LeWitt , Jasper Johns , Alison Saar and Frank Stella . The Baltimore Museum of Art also has one of the largest collections of Andy Warhol's late works in the United States.
Illustrations
Paul Gauguin:
Tahitian woman with mango
Paul Cézanne:
Montagne Sainte-Victoire, view from Steibruch Bibémus
Alfred Sisley:
Wiese in By
Vincent van Gogh:
A Pair of Shoes
See also
literature
- Jack D. Flam: Matisse in the Cone Collection: The Poetics of Vision . Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001. ISBN 0-912298-73-1
- Sona K. Johnston: American Paintings, 1750-1900: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art . Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983. ISBN 0-912298-53-7
Web links
Individual evidence
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