Göteborgs konstmuseum

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The art museum on Götaplatsen in Gothenburg

Göteborgs konstmuseum is an art museum in Gothenburg in Sweden. The art museum's collections include around 70,000 works from the 15th century to contemporary art. Their focus is on Nordic art, but they also contain works from the rest of Europe and the USA.

The Fürstenbergska Galleriet , part of the collections , is particularly well known . In the French part of the museum there are works by the impressionists Edgar Degas , Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley , the post-impressionists Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh as well as the modernists Pierre Bonnard , Georges Braque , Marc Chagall and Raoul Dufy , Fernand Léger , Auguste Rodin and Henri Rousseau can be seen.

building

The museum building was built between 1921 and 1923 according to plans by Arvid Bjerke and Sigfrid Ericsson in order to create a worthy space for the art collections of the Göteborgs museum . 1966–1968 an extension was built. A major renovation took place in the 1990s.

The building has been under monument protection as Byggnadsminne since 2017 .

Collections (selection)

Italian art

Flemish art

French art

Nordic art

Web links

Commons : Göteborgs konstmuseum  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://goteborgskonstmuseum.se/samlingen/
  2. ↑ http://goteborgskonstmuseum.se/samlingen/