Jenisch Museum
The art museum Musée Jenisch in Vevey for drawings, copperplate engravings and prints is reserved for the exhibition for paper. As the second largest art museum in the canton of Vaud , it has resided in the neoclassical building since 1897, which Fanny Henriette Jenisch (1801–1881), the widow of Hamburg Senator Martin Johan Jenisch , left the city in her will.
Building
The building was inaugurated in March 1897 as an encyclopedic museum in which art and science were supposed to unite. The financing came from Fanny Jenisch's legacy to the city of Vevey in the amount of 200,000 gold francs . She thanked the city for the many vacations she and her husband were able to spend there, on whose initiative the Jenisch House in Hamburg was also declined.
The gable is a replica of the Pantheon - tympanum decorated "Prospetto del Panteon de supplito suoi ornamenti". As is typical of the time, the entrance hall and the main stairs were decorated with mosaic floors and antique columns and statuettes. Louis Henri Maillard and Robert Convert were responsible for the architecture .
For almost 100 years it was a natural history museum with a public library and lots of stuffed animals before it was added to the collection of the Zoological Museum in Lausanne in the 1980s.
The Oskar Kokoschka Foundation and the cantonal cabinet have been housed in the premises since 1989 . It soon turned out that despite the vacancy of the public library, the space would be too small. After three years of renovation and expansion, the museum was reopened to the public in June 2012. The architecture office Bakker und Blanc in Lausanne was responsible for the implementation. According to the administration, a symbiosis of the past and the modern has succeeded in the renovation.
While changing exhibitions can be seen three times a year on the ground floor, the upper floor is reserved for the special treasures of the museum's holdings. In addition to the room of the Oskar Kokoschka Foundation with its printed works, these are collections of historical paintings from the 16th century to the present day.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Musée Jenisch Vevey. A museum for works on paper . Museum homepage
Coordinates: 46 ° 27 '41.4 " N , 6 ° 50' 43.1" E ; CH1903: 554420 / 145747