Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg)

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The new Dalí Museum

The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida, USA) houses the largest collection of works by the artist Salvador Dalí outside of Europe . The collection, which comprises 2,140 works, includes 96 oil paintings, over 100 watercolors and drawings, 1,300 graphics, photographs, sculptures and other art objects.

history

The first Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg

Shortly after their marriage on March 21, 1942, Eleanor Reese Morse and Albert Reynolds Morse, an industrialist couple from Cleveland , Ohio, bought their first Dalí painting. They had seen the artist's work at an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art and loved it. In April 1943 they met Dalí and his wife Gala in New York, which was the beginning of a close friendship that had lasted for decades.

Over the years, the Morses acquired further works by Dalí until the collection finally became too large for their home. So they built a museum next to the administration building of their factory in Cleveland, which Dalí personally opened in 1971. But even this turned out to be too small after a few years because of the large number of visitors, and so the Morse began a nationwide search for a new permanent place for the works of art.

Some museums showed interest but could not offer optimal conditions for the presentation of the collection. Thanks to a private initiative, a new museum was founded in St. Petersburg with municipal and state support, which took over the works and opened in March 1982 in a converted former warehouse ( location ) on Bayboro Harbor.

In January 2011 the museum moved to a new building about 800 m northeast of the previous location. It was created according to plans by the architects' office HOK , the construction time was 22 months.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b In Memoriam ( English ) The Dali Museum. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Why is the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL? ( English ) The Dali Museum. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ Nadine M. Post: Salvador Dalí Museum by HOK Opens This Month in Florida , in the Architectural Record, January 5, 2011 , archrecord.construction.com, accessed on May 16, 2011

Remarks

  1. ↑ The museum is mainly called The Dalí Museum on its own website , but partly also Salvador Dalí Museum , which corresponds to the lettering on the old building.
  2. ↑ cf. en: A. Reynolds Morse & Eleanor R. Morse

Web links

Commons : Salvador Dalí Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 27 ° 45 ′ 57.5 "  N , 82 ° 37 ′ 53"  W.