Fundació Joan Miró

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The Fundació Joan Miró
The Fundació Joan Miró

The Fundació Joan Miró ( Spanish : Fundación Joan Miró ) is a museum of modern art in Barcelona dedicated to Joan Miró .

The museum building is located at the foot of Montjuïc , near the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya . It contains over 10,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, stage designs and carpets by Joan Miró, from early drawings from 1901 to the later large-format paintings. Sculptures by the artist are presented on the roof terrace of the house . In addition, there are regularly changing exhibitions of contemporary art.

The Nits de música ('Nights of Music') series of events turns the Fundació Joan Miró into a center for classical music from June to September . Artists from all over the world perform at the concerts that take place every Thursday.

The idea for a Miró Foundation goes back to a childhood friend of the artist: Joan Prats (not to be confused with a gallery of the same name on the Rambla) laid the foundation for today's collection with an extensive donation. Miró spent the most important years of his youth in his native city of Barcelona. Although he lived most of the time in Palma , Paris or Mont-roig del Camp , he always remained a self-confident Catalan and kept a studio in his parents' apartment in Barcelona until 1956. Further works by the artist can be found in the public urban space of Barcelona. Another foundation can be found in Cala Major , a suburb of Palma de Mallorca; Due to a donation from the artist, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca was founded there in 1981 .

building

The idea for the museum goes back to Miró himself. The building was completed in 1975 by a friend of Mirós, the architect Josep Lluís Sert (1909–1983), a student of Le Corbusier . The house, with its clear, white, cubic shapes and Mediterranean style, was expanded in 1986 and 2000. The building received the Twenty-five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects in 2002 .

Award

Web links

Commons : Fundació Joan Miró  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Vowinckel: Surrealism and Art: Studies on the history of ideas and change in meaning . Olms, 1989, p. 321, ISBN 3-487077175 .
  2. ↑ American Institute of Architects : list of winners

Coordinates: 41 ° 22 ′ 7 ″  N , 2 ° 9 ′ 36 ″  E