Maeght Foundation

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The Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence

The Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght is a private museum with a sculpture garden and exhibition organizer for modern and contemporary art near Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the hill La Colline des Gardettes, about 25 km from Nice . The address is 623, chemin des Gardettes, 06570 Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

description

The couple Marguerite and Aimé Maeght established the foundation in 1964 to exhibit part of their collection there. The Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert , in collaboration with well-known artists such as Joan Miró and Georges Braque, created a building ensemble consisting of two houses separated by a courtyard and the small St. Bernard chapel , which commemorates his son Bernard, who died early in 1953. The ensemble fits harmoniously into the Mediterranean landscape. The opening took place on July 28, 1964 by the then Minister of Culture of France, André Malraux .

View of the museum from the sculpture garden

In addition to the important collection of modern paintings, there are many sculptures , sculptures , installations and mosaics by great contemporary artists in the gardens of the Maeght Foundation , such as the labyrinth, a ceramic wall and sculptures by Miró. From the café you can see the courtyard with the typically elongated figures by Alberto Giacometti . The interior of the “Café Diego” was designed by his brother Diego Giacometti . Braque created the water basin for a courtyard; on the floor you can see fish formed from mosaic stones in different shades of blue. Pierre Tal-Coat created a mosaic wall in shades of gray on a garden wall. The chapel contains stained glass windows by Braque and Raoul Ubac .

The foundation owns an impressive number of masterpieces, including 50 sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, 150 works by Joan Miró, and works by Pierre Bonnard , Alexander Calder , Fernand Léger , Marc Chagall , Wassily Kandinsky , Henri Matisse , Jesús Rafael Soto , Antoni Tàpies , Valerio Adami and many others. The collection with over 10,000 works as well as the thematic exhibitions or retrospectives organized by the Fondation attracts more than 200,000 visitors from all over the world every year.

The integrated library is open to the public every day and offers more than 30,000 volumes on modern and contemporary art.

The director from 1969 to 2004 was Jean Louis Prat, one of the internationally renowned Chagall experts and chairman of the “Comité Marc Chagall” in Paris. Successors were Dominique Païni, Michel Enrici and Isabelle Maeght, Aimé Maeght's daughter-in-law. The President of the Fondation, Adrien Maeght, announced in April 2011 that Olivier Kaeppelin would take up the post of director.

literature

  • Jan Birksted: Modernism and the Mediterranean: The Maeght Foundation (Histories of Vision). Ashgate Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7546-0179-X .
  • Yoyo Maeght: La Saga Maeght . Editions Robert Laffont, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-221-13616-4 .

Movie

  • The saga Maeght. France, 2007, 52 min. Director: Valerie Exposito, Cyril de Turckheim
  • Aimé Maeght and his artists. (Aimé Maeght, founder of the Maeght art dealer and gallery owner dynasty). France, 2007, 52 min. Director: Cyril de Turckheim

Web links

Commons : Fondation Maeght  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the website of the Maeght Foundation
  2. ^ Fondation Maeght: "Histoire Maeght"
  3. ↑ Le Palais de Tokyo perd son "responsable des projets" Olivier Kaeppelin, parti pour la Fondation Maeght , lemonde.fr, April 30, 2011, accessed on December 23, 2015.

Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 54.3 ″  E