Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
history
Museum history begins in 1888 with the establishment of the Milwaukee Art Association by German artists. The entrepreneur and art collector Frederick Layton built the Layton Gallery , which no longer exists .
Patrons donated their collections , especially Alexander Mitchell , Richard and Erna Flagg ( Renaissance , Middle Ages and Haitian folk art ), René von Schleinitz (German and Austrian paintings of the 19th century), Maurice and Esther Leah Ritz, ( Expressionism ), Anthony Petullo , (American and European Folk Art) and Harry L. Bradley, (European and American Paintings and Sculptures of the 19th Century).
In 1911, the Milwaukee Art Institute , another building, was built to house exhibitions and other collections. The institute was built right next to the Layton Art Gallery.
New building
The new museum building designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava was opened on May 4, 2001. The building, the architect and the responsible engineers received the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from ASCE in 2003 and the Outstanding Structure Award from IABSE in 2004 . The older building from 1957 was designed by Eero Saarinen .
collection
The museum has around 35,000 objects, including numerous works by Georgia O'Keeffe , as well as paintings and drawings by Jules Bastien-Lepage , Christian Ludwig Bokelmann , Ferdinand Bol , Francesco Botticini , William-Adolphe Bouguereau , Gustave Caillebotte , and Nardo di Cione , Edgar Degas , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Jean-Léon Gérôme , Robert Gober , Jan van Goyen , Winslow Homer , Franz von Lenbach , Joan Miró , Claude Monet , Charles Théodore Frère , Max Pechstein , Pablo Picasso , Camille Pissarro , Gerhard Richter , Auguste Rodin , Mark Rothko , Antonio Rotta , Carl Spitzweg , Jan Swart van Groningen , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet , Andy Warhol , Ferdinand Waldmüller , Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski , Frank Lloyd Wright , Francisco de Zurbarán and others. a.
exhibition
- 2010: Street Seen - The Psychological Gesture in American Photography ; Catalog: Prestel Verlag, Munich and New York
Web links
- Official website
- Milwaukee Art Museum at Google Cultural Institute
- Kahler Slater Architects (project architect)
- Santiago Calatrava
Coordinates: 43 ° 2 ′ 21.5 " N , 87 ° 53 ′ 50.1" W.