Bonnefanten Museum

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Bonnefanten Museum
Bonnefanten Museum (2004)
Data
place Maastricht
Art
Old, modern and contemporary art
architect Aldo Rossi
opening 1884
Number of visitors (annually) 135,000 (2013)
management
Stijn Huijts
Website

The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht is a museum for ancient and contemporary art in the Netherlands . The museum is housed in a building designed by Aldo Rossi .

history

The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and archaeological museum of the province of Limburg ( Limburgs Museum van Kunst en Oudheden ). In 1999 the archaeological collection was transferred to the Maastricht municipality; since then the museum has acted exclusively as an art museum.

In the course of its existence the museum has moved several times. The Bonnefantenmuseum takes its name from the building in which it was housed from 1951 to 1978. It is a corruption of Couvent des bons enfants ("Monastery of the good children"). In the 18th century, this women's monastery had set itself the task of bringing up children.

collection

The museum contains a collection of ancient art with sections on medieval sculpture (including the “Neutelings Collection”), Italian painting (1325–1525) and painting from the southern Netherlands (16th / 17th centuries).

The highlights of the collection of medieval sculpture are the wooden sculptures by Jan van Steffeswert and Meister von Elsloo , as well as wooden, marble and ivory sculptures from Brussels , Antwerp , France , England and the Lower Rhine region .

Andrea Vanni , Giovanni del Biondo , Domenico di Michelino and Sano di Pietro are the most important representatives of the collection of early Italian painting. The collection of southern Dutch painting (partly on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam ) consists of paintings by u. a. Marinus van Reymerswaele , Roelant Savery , Pieter Coecke van Aelst , Pieter Aertsen , Pieter Brueghel the Younger , Peter Paul Rubens , Jacob Jordaens and David Teniers the Younger .

The contemporary art collection is young and internationally oriented. It consists of a so-called basic collection, dominated by artists of minimalism and Arte Povera . Important works of art by u. a. Sol LeWitt , Richard Serra , Robert Ryman , Robert Mangold , Bruce Nauman , Richard Deacon , Gilbert & George , Peter Doig , Luciano Fabro , Mario Merz , Jannis Kounellis , Luc Tuymans , Joseph Beuys , Anselm Kiefer , Neo Rauch , Roman Signer , Hermann Nitsch , Arnulf Rainer and Franz West provide the collection with a solid foundation.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • IL Szénássy: Bonnefanten Museum. Het gebouw. Het museum. De verzamelingen . Maastricht 1984
  • IL Szénássy: Art in the Bonnefanten Museum . Maastricht 1984
  • IL Szénássy: Oudheden in het Bonnefantenmuseum . Maastricht 1984
  • P. te Poel: Bonnefanten Museum. Collectie Middeleeuws Houtsnijwerk . Maastricht 2007
  • P. te Poel: Bonnefanten Museum. Collectie Neutelings . Maastricht 2007
  • T. Quik: Bonnefanten Museum. De divorced. Maastricht 2007
  • JJM Timmers: Catalogus van schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken . Maastricht 1958
  • R. van. Wegen, T. Quik: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht . Maastricht 1995

Web links

Commons : Bonnefantenmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 34 ″  N , 5 ° 42 ′ 9 ″  E