Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Milan)

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Civica galleria d'arte moderna di Milano

The Civica galleria d'arte moderna di Milano (Municipal Gallery of Modern Art) is a museum in Milan , founded in 1921. It houses the most important collection of 19th century Italian art in Lombardy and is located in the Villa Reale .

Villa Reale

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The Villa Reale in Milan, today Villa Comunale , formerly Villa Belgioioso or Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte , is a city palace that was built between 1790 and 1796 by the architect Leopoldo Pollack on behalf of Count Ludovico di Barbiano e Belgiojoso . It is a prime example of Milanese neoclassicism , which shaped the architecture of the Lombard capital from 1750 to 1850. The back of the building is at Via Palestro 16, which has been the entrance area to the Galleria d'arte moderna since 1921 . From the upper floors there is a view of the Indro Montanelli Gardens at Porta Venezia . The mighty front of the city palace faces an English-style garden, also designed by Leopoldo Pollack. Features include sculptures by Luigi Acquisti and paintings by Antonio Canova .

The building is now officially called Villa Comunale .

Collections

In 1903 the city of Milan decided to exhibit in an independent institution all works of contemporary art that came into their possession as loans or donations. From 1877 the collection was shown in the Salone dei Giardini Pubblici at Castello Sforzesco . In 1920, the state gave the city the Villa Reale , which was considered ideally suited for the museum. The following year, the Civica galleria d'arte moderna di Milano was opened.

The main works are predominantly of Italian and French origin, from the 19th century, on the one hand from Historicism to Futurism - Francesco Hayez , Giuseppe De Nittis , Giovanni Segantini , Giacomo Balla , Umberto Boccioni , on the other hand from Impressionism to Cubism and Fauvism - Édouard Manet , Paul Cézanne , Auguste Renoir , Paul Gauguin , Vincent van Gogh , Pablo Picasso . There are also some works by German, Dutch and Scandinavian artists in the gallery, for example a sunset after a thunderstorm in Porto Venere by Andreas Achenbach from 1857.

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Sculptures

The museum is also home to two important private collections from Lombardy, which supplemented the collections in the second half of the 20th century. The tobacco magnate Carlo Grassi (1886–1950) acquired a large number of Italian works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as impressionist and post-impressionist paintings from France. The collection of Giuseppe Vismara (1903–1975), donated immediately after his death, also consists mainly of Italian and French works, but with a stronger avant-garde reference, with works by Giorgio Morandi , Massimo Campigli and Filippo De Pisis on the one hand, Raoul Dufy , Amedeo on the one hand Modigliani , Matisse and Picasso on the other hand.

Web links

Commons : Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Milan)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le città d'arte: Milano , Guide brevi Skira, ed. 2008, various authors (ital.)
  2. ↑ Milan , Lonely Planet Encounter Guides, 1st Edition, January 2009 (Eng.)

Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 20.8 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 59"  E