Figge Art Museum
The Figge Art Museum is an art museum in Davenport , Iowa , United States .
history
The museum was opened on August 6, 2005. It replaced the Davenport Museum of Art , which was founded in 1925 as Davenport's first museum. The new Figge Art Museum building was designed by the English architect David Chipperfield . The museum got its name from the VO and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Foundation , which donated US $ 13.25 million to the total costs of US $ 46.9 million. The building was erected above the 100-year maximum water level in order to protect it from damage when the Mississippi floods and has an area of 10,683 m², a large part of which is used for training purposes. The Figge Art Museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution .
On September 17, 2005, the first exhibition opened under the title: The Great American Thing: 1915-1935 .
collection
The first pieces in the collection came from a donation from the former Davenport banker and politician Charles Ficke (1850–1931), who collected art from all over the world. Robert E. Harsche, director of the Art Institute of Chicago , attested that, to the best of his knowledge, no public art gallery in America could present such a large number of important paintings as the core of its collection when it opened. Today the collection includes over 3,500 paintings, sculptures and works on paper.
The museum is best known for its collection of Haitian and New Spanish art as well as art from the American Midwest . Also represented are paintings by Thomas Benton and Grant Wood , including Wood's only self-portrait. In addition to other American artists such as Ansel Adams , Albert Bierstadt , William Merritt Chase , Winslow Homer , Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg , Andy Warhol , James McNeill Whistler and Andrew Wyeth , the Figge Art Museum also houses European artists (including Albrecht Dürer , Francisco de Goya , Thomas Lawrence , Claude Lorrain , Rembrandt , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ) and East Asian (e.g. Hiroshige , Hokusai and Kunisada ) artists. The Grant Wood Archive is also located in the Figge Art Museum.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art Urbane (English)
- ↑ http://affiliations.si.edu - Figge Art Museum ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2007 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. (English)
- ↑ Charles August Ficke: An American Success Story ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. (English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 31 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 90 ° 34 ′ 33.3 ″ W.
