Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne) is the art museum of the Swiss canton of Vaud . It was founded in 1841 and is located in the Palais de Rumine in the canton capital of Lausanne on Lake Geneva .
Collections
In 2014, the museum housed around 10,000 works. The collections were created through purchases, but also through donations and long-term loans from cantonal and national organizations, including the Société Vaudoise des Beaux-Arts, the Gottfried Keller Foundation and the Swiss Confederation .
A private initiative is not only due to the founding of the museum in 1841, but also the regular expansion of its collections and the opening up to international art through bequests and larger donations. Part of the museum's collections gives an overview of the history of general art from ancient Egypt.
The most important works date from the second half of the eighteenth century to Post-Impressionism , with outstanding works from Cubism and Vaudois abstract art .
The importance of the museum, both at national and international level, is based on the five most important collections Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros (1748–1810), Charles Gleyre (1806–1874), Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923), Félix Vallotton ( 1865–1925) and Louis Soutter (1871–1942).
The collections of modern and contemporary art contain major works of Tachism , Abstract Expressionism , Informal Art and New Realism by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers , Geula Dagan, Rolf Iseli , Tadeusz Kantor , Charles Roller, Daniel Spoerri and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva . The expressive visual arts are represented with works by Günther Brus, Luciano Castelli , Miriam Cahn , Martin Disler , Leiko Ikemura François Jousselin, Arnulf Rainer , Jean Revol, Klaudia Schifferle , Jean-Frédéric Schnyder and others.
In the years 1990-2010 the museum concentrated on the acquisition of important works by international artists such as Christian Boltanski , Tom Burr, Sophie Calle , Alfredo Jaar , Nalini Malani , Bruce Nauman , Jim Shaw, without the imagination of Vaudois such as Jean-Luc Manz, Alain Huck, Fabrice Gygi, Silvie Defraoui , Philippe Decrauzat, Didier Rittener, Denis Savary, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud and Anne-Julie Raccoursier.
history
In 1808 the Vaudois watercolorist Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros proposed the creation of a drawing school and made his own collection of Italian works from the 17th and 18th centuries available, as well as his own watercolors. Ducros died without his proposal being carried out. His collection was acquired by the canton in 1816 and formed the first base of the Lausanne collection. Thereafter, the painter Marc-Louis Arlaud founded the museum in 1841, which bore his name until 1906, before it took its current name.
The cantonal museum is located in the Palais de Rumine, which was built to house the new University of Lausanne . The building, which, thanks to a legacy from Gabriel de Rumine, was built according to plans by the architect Gaspard André , was inaugurated on July 17, 1906.
Exhibitions
The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts only presents temporary exhibitions, five to eight a year. The first Salon International des Galeries Pilotes du Monde took place in 1963 (among the artists were Philippe Morisson and Georges Romathier). Every winter since 2002, the Accrochages exhibition has brought together the works of contemporary artists who live or work in the canton of Vaud. An ad hoc jury, which is composed differently every year, selects around fifty works for free presentation. The laureates include contemporary Swiss artists such as Robert Ireland, Bernard Voïta, Yves Mettler, David Hominal, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Jean Crotti , Elisabeth Llach, Pauline Boudry, Luc Aubort and Lukas Beyeler.
Directors
- 1856-1868: Godefroy de Blonay
- 1868–1886: Léon de La Cressonnière
- 1894-1935: Emile Bonjour
- 1935–1951: Jean Descoullayes
- 1951–1962: Ernest Manganel
- 1962–1981: René Berger
- 1981–1991: Erika Billeter
- 1991–2001: Jörg Zutter
- 2001-2006: Yves Aupetitallot
- 2006–2007: Catherine Lepdor (a. I.)
- since 2007: Bernard Fibicher
development
On November 30, 2008, the voters of the canton of Vaud rejected a planning loan of 390,000 francs for a project for the museum in Bellerive .
On September 30, 2009, the State Council withdrew the SBB's locomotive hall in Lausanne as part of the museum platform. The historic hall was partially destroyed in spring 2016. The opening of the new cantonal museum for fine arts is planned for 2019.
