Gianadda Foundation
The Pierre Gianadda Foundation is a private foundation that has existed since 1976 with a large art exhibition space in Martigny in the Swiss canton of Valais .
Origin of the foundation
Léonard Gianadda, engineer, journalist, artist and internationally honored patron of the arts, found the remains of a Roman temple in 1976 on a site on which he was supposed to build a house . Since his younger brother Pierre had died in a plane crash when he was only 25, Léonard set up a cultural foundation and named it Pierre Gianadda in memory of his brother .
Léonard Gianadda acquired the site and had a concrete building built according to his own design in a modern architecture exactly above the excavation site of the temple remains.
Complete information on the foundation
The foundation has an annual budget of around 8 million Swiss francs, in which the municipality of Martigny contributes more than 545,000 SFr. Around 60 employees are employed. Since the museums opened, more than 6.7 million visitors from all over the world have been received (as of 2006). The main sponsors are the municipality of Martigny, the canton of Valais , Credit Suisse , UBS and Loterie Romand . The foundation's partners include the Barry Foundation, the St. Bernhard Tunnel, RailAway and the Palais Lumière in Evian.
The different areas of the foundation
main building
The large new building serves as an entrance building and exhibition hall. It houses three permanent exhibitions: the Gallo-Roman Museum on the early history of the place, the ten most beautiful paintings from the collection of Evelyn and Louis Franck and a small vintage car collection of 50 cars from the years 1897 to 1939, including rare exhibits from Swiss automobile manufacturers .
The large central room of the main building is used for art exhibitions, which change several times each year, primarily for private collections and rare exhibits, and for concerts.
On the sidewalk in front of the main building, a path of fame was laid out, on the slabs of which hand, footprints or signatures of famous guests are immortalized.
The major temporary expositions began in 1980.
Sculpture park
The extensive park adjacent to the entrance building shows an extensive collection of sculptures by the following renowned artists of the 20th century:
Park villa
In the middle of the park is the old arsenal building of the Fondation, in which the administration is housed and a permanent exhibition of drawings and models on the subject of Leonardo da Vinci - inventor is shown.
A bistro in an extension to the park villa offers visitors a little refreshment.
Restoration workshop
The Fondation restores works of art of various kinds with its own specialists, also for other museums and institutions.
The themes of all previous temporary exhibitions
| year | Exhibition theme in German, the original title in brackets |
|---|---|
| 1980 | Paul Klee |
| 1981 | Picasso , editions 1904–1972 (Estampes) |
| 1982 | Francisco Goya in the Swiss collections (Goya dans les collections suisses); Japanese art in the Swiss collections (Art japonais dans les collections suisses) |
| 1983 | Ferdinand Hodler , pupil of Ferdinand Sommer (Hodler élève de Sommer); Manguin and Fauvism (Manguin parmi les Fauves) |
| 1984 | Rodin |
| 1985 | Isabelle Tabin-Darbellay ; Paul Klee ; Bernard Cathelin |
| 1986 | Gaston Chaissac ; Gustav Klimt ; Egon Schiele ; Alberto Giacometti |
| 1987 | Paul Delvaux ; Toulouse-Lautrec ; Serge Poliakoff |
| 1988 | Picasso and his linocuts (Picasso linograveur); The Treasures from the Museum of São Paulo, 1st part from Raphael (painter) to Corot (Trésors du Musée de São Paulo, 1ère partie de Raphaël à Corot); 2nd part from Manet to Picasso (2e partie de Manet à Picasso) |
| 1989 | Paintings and their posters (Le peintre et l'affiche); Henry Moore ; Hans Erni , Life and Mythology (Erni, Vie et mythologie); Jules Bissier |
| 1990 | Camille Claudel ; Modigliani ; Fernando Botero ; Louis Soutter |
| 1991 | Calima , Colombia before Columbus (Calima, Colombie précolombienne); Franco Franchi ; Mizette Putallaz ; Ferdinand Hodler , Swiss history painter (F. Hodler, peintre de l'histoire suisse); Swiss open-air sculpture (Sculpture suisse en plein air); Chagall in Russia (Chagall en Russie) |
| 1992 | Ben Nicholson ; Georges Braque ; From Goya to Matisse , works from the Jacques Doucet Fund (De Goya à Matisse, estampes du fonds Jacques Doucet) |
| 1993 | Marie Laurencin ; Edgar Degas ; Jean Dubuffet ; Georges Borgeaud |
| 1994 | Albert Chavaz ; From Matisse to Picasso, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection (De Matisse à Picasso, Gelman collection); Rodin , drawings and watercolors (Rodin, dessins et aquarelles) |
| 1995 | Mikhail Fyodorowitsch Larionow - Natalija Sergejewna Goncharova ; Nicolas de Staël ; Egon Schiele |
| 1996 | Marcel Imsand - Anne Rosat - Michel Favre ; Edouard Manet ; Suzanne Valadon |
| 1997 | Russian icons from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Icônes russes, Tretiakov Gallery, Moscou); Joan Miró ; Raoul Dufy |
| 1998 | Hans Erni ; Paul Gauguin ; Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo |
| 1999 | Sam Szafran ; Pierre Bonnard ; Turner and the Alps (Turner et les Alpes). Early Works (1802) |
| 2000 | Bonaparte ; Van Gogh ; Kandinsky and Russia (Kandinsky et la Russie) |
| 2001 | Marius Borgeaud or "the magic of the moment" (Borgeaud "ou la magie de l'instant"); Picasso - Under the Mithra Sun ("Sous le soleil de Mithra"); Russian icons. The saints from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Icônes russes. Les saints - Tretiakov Gallery, Moscou) |
| 2002 | Jean Lecoultre ; Berthe Morisot ; Kees van Dongen |
| 2003 | Paul Signac ; From Picasso to Barceló , the Spanish artists (De Picasso à Barceló, Les artistes espagnols) |
| 2004 | Jean Fautrier ; The treasures of the Convent of Saint Catherine (Les Trésors du Monastère Sainte-Catherine); Major works from the Phillips Collection in Washington (Chefs-d'œuvre de la Phillips Collection, Washington); Albert Anker |
| 2005 | Henri Cartier-Bresson ; Luigi the Shepherd (Luigi le berger); French painting from the Moscow Pushkin Museum in Moscow (La peinture française au Musée Pouchkine de Moscou); Félix Vallotton , Sunsets (Vallotton, Les couchers de soleil) |
| 2006 | Édouard Vallet - The Art of Contemplation (Vallet - L'art d'un regard); Major works of European painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne); Camille Claudel and Rodin - The Meeting of Two Fates (Claudel et Rodin - La rencontre de deux destins) |
| 2007 | Picasso and the Circus (Picasso et le cirque); Marc Chagall . Between heaven and earth (Entre ciel et terre) |
| 2008 | Balthus on the 100th birthday (Balthus - 100e anniversaire) |
| 2009 | Rodin Erotique |
| 2010 | Nicolas de Staël (Nicolas de Staël 1945–1955) |
| 2011 | Claude Monet ; De Renoir à Szafran - Parcours d'un collectionneur |
| 2012 | VAN GOGH , PICASSO , KANDINSKY … (Merzbacher Collection. Le mythe de la couleur); Ernest Biéler (Réalité rêvée); PORTRAITS - COLLECTIONS DU CENTER POMPIDOU |
| 2013 | Sam Szafran (Sam Szafran 50 ans de peinture); Marcel Imsand (MARCEL IMSAND ET LA FONDATION); Modigliani (Modigliani et l'Ecole de Paris) |
| 2014 | Renoir ; La beauté du corps dans l'Antiquité grecque in collaboration with the British Museum ; MÉDITERRANÉE, photographs by Léonard Gianadda (1952–1960) |
Web links
- Foundation website (French and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Partners and Links. In: FONDATION PIERRE GIANADDA. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 5 '42.4 " N , 7 ° 4' 15.1" E ; CH1903: 571555 / 104913