Brooklyn Museum
 Brooklyn Museum (2008) |
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| place | new York |
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McKim, Mead, and White ; Daniel Chester French |
| opening | 1895 |
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The Brooklyn Museum (from 1997 to 2004 Brooklyn Museum of Art ) is the second largest museum in New York City and one of the largest and oldest museums in North America . The holdings include a large collection of ancient Egyptian masterpieces and the work of many cultures from around the world, especially Chinese, Korean and Middle Eastern art. Modern art is represented with exemplary works from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The museum complex is part of a park and garden complex from the 19th century, which includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Prospect Park Zoo. The museum is in Brooklyn and has its own subway station ( Eastern Parkway - Brooklyn Museum ).
history
The huge building was designed in the neoclassic style in 1885 by New York architects McKim, Mead, and White and opened in 1887. With its generous domed structure and its extensive galleries, halls and colonnades , it was planned to be the largest museum building in the world, but only about a fifth of the originally planned building has been completed to date. The allegorical figures Brooklyn (on the right) and Manhattan (on the left of the portico) were created in 1916 by the American sculptor Daniel Chester French .
The Brooklyn Museum's original holdings included paintings and science and ethnology collections. In 1916 an Egypt collection was added by a donation from the Egyptologist Charles E. Wilbour . Today it is one of the most extensive and valuable collections of its kind in the world. On August 22, 1977, the museum building was entered as a monument in the National Register of Historic Places .
In 1988 the painting The Origin of the World (L'Origine du monde) by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was presented to the public for the first time in the world. The 1999 exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection caused a scandal. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani described a work as "pathological" and demanded its removal and canceled the museum grants amounting to 7.2 million dollars, but could not prevail. A court revoked the cancellation of the funds with reference to the freedom of art.
In 2003/2004, the museum building was rebuilt by the architect James Polshek for over 60 million dollars and was given a modern glass pavilion in the entrance area. The Californian design studio Wet installed a sensational fountain with a "water ballet" on the forecourt.
The collection
On the ground floor are the collections of primitive art by Indian and African peoples as well as areas for changing exhibitions.
The first floor is reserved for the exhibition of Asian art such as Indian miniatures and Islamic calligraphy , and both Chinese and Japanese art are shown there in permanent and temporary exhibitions.
The above-mentioned collection of Egyptian art as well as the collections of Coptic , Greek , Roman and Middle Eastern art are located on the 2nd floor of the museum .
The center of attraction on the 3rd floor are 25 fully furnished American rooms from the period from 1715 to 1880 as well as everyday objects from this period. There are also collections of European and American costumes .
On the 4th floor there is an extensive collection of American paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Georgia O'Keeffe , Louise Bourgeois , Jim Dine , Mark Rothko , Robert Rauschenberg , Richard Diebenkorn and Alex Katz as well as photographs by Edward Weston and Edward Steichen . European art is represented with exemplary works by Auguste Rodin , Henri Matisse , Edgar Degas , Paul Cézanne , Camille Pissarro and others. In 2007 the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art was opened here, the central focus of which is the installation “ The Dinner Party ” by Judy Chicago.
Temporary exhibitions included works by Jean-Michel Basquiat , Sigmar Polke , Ron Mueck and, in 2006, a retrospective by the photographer William Wegman .
Web links
- Museum website
- Literature from and about Brooklyn Museum in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Brooklyn Museum on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Der Spiegel: Attack on the image of Mary , December 17, 1999
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung on the reopening in 2004
- ↑ Design Büro Wet: Video of the fountain
- ↑ About at brooklynmuseum.org
Coordinates: 40 ° 40 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 73 ° 57 ′ 49.5 ″ W.