Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum
The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum ( Japanese 倉 敷 蜷 川 美術館 , Kurashiki Ninagawa bijutsukan ) was an ancient art museum in Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture, Japan .
The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum was founded in 1971 by Akira Ninagawa and named after his grandfather Ninagawa Noritane and his father Teiichi Ninagawa . Since 1961 Akira Ninagawa traveled through Europe and collected antiquities there. Unlike in the Western world in the culture of the East, in Japan there was no interest in the art and culture of Europe in large sections of the population until the second half of the 20th century. The museum was founded at a time when interest was turning more and more to Western art and culture. In the 1970s and 1980s, daily visitor numbers in the four-digit range were not uncommon. In 1980, the German archaeologist Erika Simon stayed in Japan for several weeks to write a catalog for the collection, which was published in English in 1982 by the Philipp von Zabern publishing house . It comprises 181 numbers, with coins 244 numbers.
The collection consists of works from Greek , Etruscan and Roman antiquity. Only a few marble works are represented in the collection, as the international art market seldom stocks such pieces. Outstanding works are a portrait of Emperor Augustus and one of his imperial priestess Antonia minor as well as two sarcophagi from the Roman Empire. The ancient, especially the ornate Greek pottery is represented in a large part of its levels in a noteworthy quality. There are works of ceramics from the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age , Mycenaean ceramics , geometric ceramics from Attica and Cyprus , orientalizing and black-figure ceramics from Corinth and Athens , works of pseudo-Chalcidian vase painting , red-figure and white-ground ceramics from Attica, Apulia , Campania and Paestum , Black varnish ceramics , Gnathia ceramics , Greco-Italic ceramics and ceramics from the Hellenistic period . There are also terracottas , bronzes, figurative ceramics and other works of small art.
Among the antique vase painters and potters represented in the collection are: the workshop of the curved swastiks , the bird frieze painter , the Timiades painter , the Affecter , the Oakeshott painter , Nikosthenes , the Krokotos group , the group of Vatican G 57 , the group of Toronto 305 , the Leagros group , the Athena painter , Euergides (signed) and the Euergides painter , Hieron and Makron , Myson , Duris , the Tarquinia painter , the painter of birth of Athena , the Achilles painter who Eupolis painter , the Houston-painter who Iliupersis painter who xenon genus , the Baltimore-painters , the group of Ganymede painter , the Amphora painter , the white-jackets -Group , works of the Asteas Python workshop , the SVA group , the FGO group , the Carovigno group , the Efeublatt group and the Pocolom group .
After the museum was closed in March 2000, the Kake Museum ( 加 計 美術館 , Kake bijutsukan ) for Western and Japanese paintings opened on December 1, 2003 in the old building of the Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum.
literature
- Erika Simon : The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum. Greek Etruscan and Roman Antiquities . von Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0625-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ M ト ピ WEEKLY 2002 年 12 月 19 日 号 . (No longer available online.) In: Internet Museum. Internet Museum Office, December 19, 2002, archived from the original on June 25, 2011 ; Retrieved April 16, 2019 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 加 計 美術館 オ ー プ ン . (No longer available online.) In: Chūgoku Shimbun Online. December 1, 2002, archived from the original on May 1, 2007 ; Retrieved April 16, 2019 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 34 ° 35 '44.5 " N , 133 ° 46' 17.3" E