Hara art museum

The museum in Tokyo

The Hara Art Museum ( Japanese 原 美術館 , Hara Bijutsukan , English Hara Museum of Contemporary Art ) in Shinagawa , Tokyo shows modern art from the property of the entrepreneur Hara Kunizō and his heirs.

history

Branch Museum in Ikaho Park

Hara Kunizō (原 邦 造; 1888–1958), born Tanaka, came to the Hara family as a foster son. After graduating from university and after working for the Manchu Railway and a bank in Tokyo, he was director of Aikoku life insurance, then at the same time on the board of the Tōbu Railway Company . After the Second World War, he was the first president of the Dengen Kaihatsu company and chairman of the board of directors of Japan Airlines . Like his foster father, Hara was interested in art and a collector.

Ikaho Park of Shibukawa in Gunma Prefecture is also Hara Museum ARC ( ハラミュージアムアーク, Hara Myūjiamu AKU ) called branch museum.

collection

The collection includes more than 300 pieces of modern art (paintings and sculptures ) from Japan, Europe and America, especially those from the 1950s to 1960s. A selection of around 50 works is shown alternately (three times a year). There are also five special exhibitions , which are supplemented by works from other collections. Some sculptures can be seen all the time in the garden. The collection is constantly being expanded.

The artists include, among many others

• from Japan: Arakawa , Tomio Miki (1937–1978), Nobuo Sekine (1942–), Sugai Kumi , Onosato Toshinobu (1912–1986), Yamaguchi Takeo ,
• from Europe: Karel Appel , Jean Dubuffet , Jean Fautrier , Antoni Tàpies , Jean Tinguely , including Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke from Germany ,
• from the USA; Alexander Calder , Jim Dine , Jasper Johns , Robert Motherwell , Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Rauschenberg , James Rosenquist , Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock .

The spacious house was originally Hara's home, built in 1938 by Jin Watanabe (1887–1973) in the strict Bauhaus style and all in white. Since 2003 it has been registered on the DOCOMO Modern Movement list as an architectural example of the time.

Remarks

1. ↑ Watanabe built the Wakō building (previously the seat of the Hattori watch shop ) at the Ginza intersection in Tokyo.

literature

• Laurance P. Roberts: Roberts' Guido to Japanese Museums of Art and Archeology. Simul Press, 1987.
• Oshita: Zenkoku bijutsukan gaido. Bijutsu shuppansha, 1981.

Web links

• Hara Bijutsukan website (Japanese and English)

Coordinates: 35 ° 37 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 139 ° 44 ′ 9.9 ″  E