Cobra Museum
The Cobra Museum (proper name: Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst ) in the Dutch city of Amstelveen (province of North Holland ) is a museum for modern art and includes a collection of Dutch artists and the international CoBrA movement. The initiative to build the museum came from the municipality of Amstelveen in cooperation with various large Dutch companies. The museum opened on November 8, 1995, with the opening date indicating the founding of the CoBrA movement on November 8 (1948). Since it was founded, the Cobra Museum has been a foundation that works as an independent organization and as an art company.
history
Cobra art, originated in Paris (1948–1951), caused a "revolution" in modern art in the Netherlands . The Cobra Museum would like to be an expertise center in the spirit of CoBrA, where experiment, expressionism and surrealism are expressed. The Cobra art in the museum stands for creative freedom, vitality and social commitment . The building of the museum was designed by the Dutch architect Wim Quist (* 1930) and covers approximately 2500 m². The garden in the museum was laid out by the Cobra artist Shinkichi Tajiri .
There is a museum shop with, among other things, books on art and graphics, a museum café, a children's studio and a photo studio . The museum also provides rooms for initiatives that want to organize art courses. The library can only be visited after prior registration. From 2013 workshops for adults will also be organized. Workshops have already been held for children between the ages of seven and ten during the school holidays.
Exhibitions
In 2002 an exhibition was organized about the Dutch artist and musician Herman Brood .
An exhibition was held from July 2, 2012 to October 10, 2012 under the name of Cobra Cities. De Kunstenaars en de Metropol ("Cobra cities. The artists and the metropolis"). The Cobra Art is connected to the cities Co hagen, Br üssel, A msterdam and New York City and Paris.
An extensive exhibition in the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul under the title Cobra - 1000 Days of Free Art took place with the participation of the Cobra Museum from June 2012 to September 2012. The “official cultural program” was held to celebrate 400 years of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Turkey.
An exhibition about the work of Paul Klee with the title Klee en Cobra. Het Begint als Kind was on view at the Cobra Museum from January 2012 to April 2012. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art .
Her works are constantly represented in the museum: Pierre Alechinsky , Karel Appel , Eugène Brands , Constant , Corneille , Christian Dotremont , Henry Heerup , Robert Jacobsen , Asger Jorn , Lucebert , Jan Nieuwenhuys , Carl-Henning Pedersen , Reinhoud , Anton Rooskens , Shinkichi Tajiri and Theo Wolvecamp .
Since it was founded in 1995 until the end of 2012, the Cobra Museum had around 100,000 visitors.
Exhibitions from 1995 to 2012 (selection)
- 1995: De Taal van Cobra
- 1996: Roland Berning
- 1997: Van koffiekamer dead Appelbar
- 1998: Elective affinities
- 1999: Jan Commandeur. Wild dreams
- 2000: Het kind in Cobra
- 2001: Karel Appel Beelden 1936–2000
- 2005: Swiss Made (The Art of Falling Apart)
- 2007: Brave New World
- 2010: Guillaume Le Roy. Grafiek
- 2011: Jacques Doucet . Le Cobra français
- 2012: Cobra - 1000 Days of Free Art
See also
Transport links
From Amsterdam Central Station with bus routes 142 and 170 (bus stop Amstelveen) and tram (Tram, Tramlijn) no. 5 (bus stop Amstelveen Binnenhof. Status: January 2013).
literature
- Michael Baumgartner (editor): Klee and Cobra - a children's game (on the occasion of the exhibition Klee and Cobra - a children's game ). Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011. ISBN 978-3-7757-2982-6 (In German, English, Danish and Dutch).
- John Vrieze: Cobra museum voor modern art . Uitgeverij De Jonge Hond, The Hague 2007. ISBN 978-90-89100-02-3
- Willemijn Stokvis : COBRA. An international movement in art after WWII . Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-07-509200-2
Web links
- Cobra Museum website (Dutch, English)
- Cobra Museum In: holland.com (German)
- From Amstelveenweb With photos and further information about the Cobra Museum (Dutch, English, Russian, Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ collegenet.nl ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Information about the Cobra Museum. Dutch, accessed February 22, 2013
- ↑ From museumlocaties.nl ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Information about the Cobra Museum. Dutch, accessed February 22, 2013
- ↑ a b Wim Quist's building
- ^ Exhibition Herman Brood 2002 . 45 paintings and some drawings. Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013
- ↑ See: Press release of the Cobra Museum from May 29, 2012
- ↑ Author: Johan Bos . Dated December 25, 2012. Dutch, accessed February 22, 2013
- ↑ Klee en Cobra. Het Begint als Kind ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Exhibition about Paul Klee at the Cobra Museum, from January 28, 2012 to April 22, 2012. Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013
- ↑ Author: Sophia Zürcher ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . From January 31, 2012. About the exhibition Klee en Cobra . Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013
- ↑ Information on galeries.nl ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed February 22, 2013
- ↑ Exhibitions from 1995 to 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Archive of the Cobra Museum. Dutch, accessed February 22, 2013
- ↑ Klee en Cobra exhibition 2012 in the Cobra Museum . Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '14.4 " N , 4 ° 51' 28.1" E