Middelheim Museum
The Middelheim Museum (which itself formerly open-air museum of sculpture called) is an art museum for modern and sculpture in Antwerp in Flanders ( Belgium ). With over 300,000 visitors annually, the Middelheim Museum is one of the largest cultural sights in Antwerp. It is particularly known for its 27 hectare sculpture garden , located in Middelheimpark. The collection with more than 400 works (more than 250 of which are permanently in the open air) gives an overview of more than 100 years of sculpture, from Auguste Rodin to the present day. Smaller works and more delicate sculptures from the collection can be viewed in the Braem Pavilion.
history
The sculpture park goes back to the exhibition series Biennale Middelheim . The city of Antwerp bought the site privately in 1910 to prevent it from being parceled out. After an international exhibition was shown in Middelheimpark for the first time in 1950, the city council decided, following a proposal by then mayor Lode Craeybeckx , to convert an area of 20 hectares of the park into a permanent open-air museum for sculpture. From 1951 to 1989, the international biennial for sculpture in Middelheim was then held every two years and received a great response. About 60 artists took part each time. Exhibited works were repeatedly purchased for the permanent collection.
Since 2000, the Middelheim Museum has been showing more temporary exhibitions.
collection
The collection includes works by outstanding modern and contemporary sculptors, among others
- Ai Weiwei ( The Bridge Without a Name )
- Carl Andre ( 74 Weathering Way )
- Hans Arp ( Scales Tree , 1947–54)
- Rudolf Belling ( Dreiklang , 1919)
- Wander Bertoni ( Icarus , 1953)
- Joseph Bernard ( Dancing woman and child , 1925)
- Max Bill ( Endless Loop , 1953-55)
- Chris Burden ( Beam Drop Middelheim Museum , 2009)
- Guillaume Bijl ( Roman Street , 1994)
- Alexander Calder ( The Dog , 1958)
- Tony Cragg ( envelope )
- Eugène Dodeigne ( Kneeling Figure , 1970; Three single people , 1978)
- Jan Fabre (Installation architectural work with guided trees)
- Luciano Fabro ( Bagnati )
- Pericle Fazzini ( Sibilla , 1947)
- Pablo Gargallo ( The Prophet , 1933)
- Emile Gilioli ( In Heaven , 1954/55)
- Dan Graham ( Belgian Fun , 2004)
- Karl Hartung ( Composition II , 1949)
- Bernhard Heiliger (In relation standing figures, 1954)
- Barbara Hepworth ( Cantate Domino , 1958)
- Per Kirkeby (Brick Sculpture)
- Georg Kolbe ( Large sitting , 1929)
- Henri Laurens ( Océanide , 1933)
- Aristide Maillol ( River , 1939/43)
- Giacomo Manzù ( The dance step , 1950, and Cardinal , 1952)
- Arturo Martini ( Invernali , 1931, Chiaro di luna 1932 and Giochi invernali )
- Marcello Mascherini ( St. Francis , 1957)
- Bernard Meadows ( Pointing figure with a child , 1966)
- Constantin Meunier ( The Sower , 1896, and The bump carrier , 1898)
- Henry Moore ( King and Queen , 1952-53)
- Louise Nevelson ( Sun Disk / Moonshadow V , 1976)
- François Pompon ( Polar Bear , 1920)
- Jakob Probst (1952)
- Germaine Richier ( The Mantis (Mantis) , 1946)
- Auguste Rodin ( Balzac in 1892 , Bronze Age , 1880, John the Baptist , 1880)
- Roman Signer (Installation Ski anticipation of a container shaped volume )
- Jesús Rafael Soto ( Double progression vert et blanc , 1969)
- Timm Ulrichs ( model houses, type Bomarzo , 2001)
- Alberto Viani ( Female Torso , 1954)
- Lawrence Weiner
- Franz West
- Rik Wouters ( Crazy Violence , 1912, and Homely care , 1913)
- Ossip Zadkine ( The Phoenix , 1944)
- Yasuo Mizui ( White Flame , 1975)
Exhibited works (selection)
Auguste Rodin :
Balzac (1892)
Rudolf Belling :
Dreiklang (1919)
Henry Moore :
King and Queen (1952–53)
Max Bill :
Endless Loop (1953-55)
Alexander Calder :
The Dog (1958)
Friederich Werthmann :
The Winged One (1964)
Jorge Dubon:
Forest of Metal (1970)
Eugène Dodeigne :
Three Stands (1978)
Tony Cragg :
Enveloppe (1986)
Dan Graham : Belgian Funhouse (2004)
Ai Weiwei : Bridge Without a Name (2012)
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literature
- Lucie Bausart, Sara Weyns, Johan Pas and others: The Middelheim Museum, Antwerp. Publisher: Ludion, Uitgeverij, 2013, ISBN 978-9-46130099-7 . [Visitor guide, in English, paperback, 126 pages]
- Menno Meewis: The Middelheim collection. Ludion, Uitgeverij, 2010, ISBN 978-9-05544961-3 . [Paperback, in English]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Avermaete, R., De Ridder, A. et al. a .: Middelheim. Openluchtmuseum voor beeldende kunst. Musee de sculpture en plein air. Openair museum of sculpture. Open air museum of plastic. Antwerp, G. Govaerts, 1959
- ^ History . (middelheimmuseum.be)
- ↑ Glenn Harper, Twylene Moyer (Ed.): Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks. International Sculpture Center, University of Washington Press, 2008, p. 72.
Competition venues for the 1920 Summer Olympics
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 54 ″ N , 4 ° 24 ′ 49 ″ E