Menard Art Museum

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Menard Art Museum

The Menard Art Museum ( Japanese メ ナ ー ド 美術館 , Menādo bijutsukan ) is located in the Japanese city of Komaki . The art museum's collection includes paintings, sculptures and handicrafts from the 19th and 20th centuries from Europe and Japan.

history

The museum goes back to the initiative of the entrepreneur Nonogawa Daisuke and his wife, both of whom come from Komaki. Her private art collection formed the basis of the museum, which has been open to the public since October 28, 1987. The name Menard Art Museum , which is also common in German-language literature, is derived from the cosmetics company Nihon Menard Keshōhin KK ( Menard Cosmetic Co., Ltd ) founded by Nonogawa Daisuke .

architecture

The Nonogawa couple had a new museum built especially for their art collection. The single-storey building has a central, rectangular courtyard around which a gallery, three exhibition rooms and service facilities are grouped. Noble materials were used in the construction; While the exterior facades are made of granite in addition to glass elements, marble was used extensively in the interior.

collection

European painting

The Nonogawa couple collected more than 1,300 works of art, which are now shown in changing exhibitions in the museum. In addition to European painting and sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries, the museum has holdings of Japanese painting and handicrafts.

Vincent van Gogh: evening, end of a day

One of the earliest European paintings in the museum is The Death of Desdemona by Gustave Courbet as a representative of French realism . Édouard Manet's late work Madame Martin with a black hat is an example of the works of impressionism in the museum. The museum owns the painting Evening, End of a Day by the late impressionist Vincent van Gogh . Then there is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 's painting Englishmen in the Moulin-Rouge . Works of symbolism in the museum are Rêverie by Odilon Redon , Dance of Salome by Gustave Moreau and Self-Portrait with Masks by James Ensor , one of the artist's main works. The museum owns numerous works by well-known artists from classic modern painting . These include La Nappe bleue by Georges Braque , Femme à la Voilette by Henri Matisse , Les Belles Cyclistes by Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso's still lifes Bougie, Palette, Tête Taureau , and a portrait of his wife Olga . In addition, there are excerpts by Wassily Kandinsky , Écuyère de cirque by Georges Rouault , Lady with Hat by Paul Klee , Billard by André Derain , L'Été, la moisson et les glaneuses by Marc Chagall , Femme et Oiseau by Joan Miró , Lampe à pétrole by Bernard Buffet , Rooftops, St.Ives by Ben Nicholson and Nature morte sur le fond jaune by Nicolas de Staël , as well as another still life by Giorgio Morandi .

Western sculptures

In addition to the extensive holdings of Western paintings, the museum has a number of examples of sculptures by European sculptors. A Balzac statue by Auguste Rodin is one of the highlights of the collection. For possession of the Museum owned by Antoine Bourdelle a figure of Hercules , of Aristide Maillol working Ile-de-France , from Alexander Archipenko a debout Femme and Marino Marini an equestrian statue.

Japanese artist

The museum has a large collection of Japanese paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. You can see works of art in traditional Japanese painting style as well as pictures that were influenced by western art movements. Painting in traditional Japanese style of painting, the Museum of tawaraya sōtatsu , Ogata Kōrin , Katsushika Oi , Yokoyama Taikan , Uemura Shōen , Kobayashi Kokai , Yasuda Yukihiko , Maeda Seison , Murakami Kagaku , Okumura Togyū , Fukuda Heihachiro , Hayami Gyoshū , Higashiyama Kaii , Takayama Tatsuo , Kayama Matazō and Hirayama Ikuo . Among the standing of Western influences artists can be found in the collection of Menard Art Museum works of fujishima takeji , Okada Saburōsuke , Sōtarō Yasui , Umehara Ryuzaburo , Kuniyoshi Yasuo , Ryūsei Kishida , Yamaguchi Takeo , Munakata Shiko , Nakamura Tsune , Maeta Kanji , Saeki Yuzo and Koide Narashige .

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  1. ↑ The English-language term is also common in German-language art literature. See for example Beate Marks-Hanßen: Japans Liebe zum Impressionismus , p. 252

Coordinates: 35 ° 17 ′ 20 "  N , 136 ° 55 ′ 11.2"  E