Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

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South side of the Palais de Tokyo with the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris in the right wing.

The Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM) (Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) is a municipal museum of modern art in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and occupies the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo . It is divided into the two collection areas, modern art and contemporary art .

history

The building was built for the 1937 World's Fair . On the occasion of this exhibition, works by Henri Matisse (La Danse), Pierre Bonnard (Le Nu dans le bain and Le Jardin), Robert Delaunay (L'équipe de Cardiff), André Derain (La Rivière), Fernand Léger (Les Disques ), André Lhote (L'Escale), Édouard Vuillard (four works Portraits d'artistes ), Jean Metzinger (L'Oiseau bleu), large stage decorations from Robert and Sonia Delaunay , Albert Gleizes and Jacques Villon .

Its official opening as the Paris Museum of Modern Art took place in 1961. The collection is of international importance, the core of which was previously in the Museum Petit Palais . Donations by Emanuele Sarmiento, Mathilde Amos and Ambroise Vollard also enrich the collection.

organization

The museum is subordinate to the city of Paris, and the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo is also owned by Paris. The directors are appointed by the Paris Mayor.

Directors

The museum has around 800,000 visitors annually. The museum receives support from the Friends of the Amis du Musée d'art modern de la Ville de Paris.

Modern art

The collection, which now includes more than 15,000 works, documents the various art movements of the twentieth century and, in addition to the acquisitions from 1937, houses an important collection of German contemporary artists by:

Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque , Henri Matisse , Emile Othon Friesz , Wilhelm Lehmbruck , Maurice de Vlaminck , Georges Rouault , Raoul Dufy , Marie Laurencin , Pierre Bonnard , Édouard Vuillard , Albert Marquet , Henri Laurens , Jacques Lipchitz , Jean Metzinger , Albert Gleizes , André Lhote , Juan Gris , Alexander Archipenko , Ossip Zadkine , Marcel Duchamp , Francis Picabia , František Kupka , Robert and Sonia Delaunay , Fernand Léger , Jean Hélion , Auguste Herbin , Joaquín Torres García , Natalia Goncharova , Luigi Russolo , Amedeo Modigliani , Giorgio de Chirico , Alberto Magnelli , Gino Severini , Kees van Dongen , Bart van der Leck , Jean Arp , Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Maurice Utrillo , Suzanne Valadon , André Derain , Moise Kisling , Marcel Gromaire , Marc Chagall , Chaim Soutine , Tsuguharu Foujita , Alexander Calder , Alberto Giacometti , Jean Crotti , Man Ray , Max Ernst , André Masson , Victor Brauner , Hans Bellmer , Roberto Matta , Wifredo Lam , Jean Fautrier , Jean Dubuffet , Bernard Buffet , Pierre Soulages , Nicolas de Staël , Zao Wou Ki , Pierre Alechinsky , Henri Michaux , Étienne-Martin , Antoni Tàpies , Lucio Fontana , Yves Klein , Arman , Martial Raysse , Jean Tinguely , Christo , Victor Vasarely , François Morellet , Carlos Cruz-Diez , Bridget Riley , Daniel Buren , Nam June Paik , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone , Luciano Fabro , Simon Hantaï , Bertrand Lavier , Bernard Frize , Jean-Michel Othoniel , Robert Rauschenberg , Keith Haring , John Heartfield , James Lee Byars , Peter Doig , Otto Freundlich , Anton Räderscheidt , Hannah Höch , Hans Hartung , Gerhard Richter , Georg Baselitz , Sigmar Polke , Jörg Immendorff , Wolf Vostell , Andreas Gursky , Markus Lüpertz , Antonius Höckelmann , Thomas Schütte , Thomas Ruff , Gisèle Freund , Gloria Friedmann , Rosemarie Trockel , Albert Oehlen , Per Kirkeby , Marcel Broodthaers , Zeng Fanzhi and many others.

Art theft 2010

On the night of May 20, 2010, an art theft occurred in the museum, in which a total of five paintings with an estimated value of up to 100 million euros were stolen (other estimates assume 50 million euros). The theft, noticed shortly before the door opened around 6:50 a.m., was recorded on video. A perpetrator entered from the back of the museum without triggering the alarm system. He broke a padlock and cut a window. In 2012 the thief and two of his accomplices were arrested, but the pictures have still disappeared.

The stolen works are: Woman with a Fan (1919) by Amedeo Modigliani , Dove with Green Peas (1912) by Pablo Picasso , The Olive Tree at L'Estaques (1907) by Georges Braque , Pastoral (1905) by Henri Matisse and Still Life with Candle by Fernand Léger .

Contemporary art in the ARC

The Département de l'ARC (animation, research, confrontation), MAMARC, also MAM / ARC, is the department for contemporary art at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris . It was built in December 1966 by Pierre Gaudibert and the curator Suzanne Pagé and had an independent status until 1988. The first exhibition took place in January 1967. Its exhibitions feature many of the most important contemporary artists, often in the form of a retrospective. From 1973 to 1988 it was under Suzanne Pagé. The ARC is currently headed by Laurence Bossé and Angeline Scherf (as of 2011).

List of some of the ARC's solo exhibitions

A complete overview can be found in the work edited by Suzanne Pagé: La Collection, Paris 2009, pp. 574–582.

Two general exhibitions took place in 1992: From October 22, 1992 to January 17, 1993 the exhibition: Allemagne. Qui, quoi, où? Un regard sur l'art en Allemagne en 1992, and from November 18, 1992 to March 14, 1993 Figures des Moderne, L'Expressionnisme en Allemagne, 1905–1914 with works from Dresden, Munich and Berlin by the groups Die Brücke , Der Blaue Reiter and The Storm .

From December 1, 2000 to March 11, 2001, the Paris School of Painting , the École de Paris , with its teachers at the time, Modigliani , Chagall , Foujita , Zadkine , Lipchitz , Gris , Soutine , Mondrian and Kupka , was presented in a special exhibition .

  • In 2004, too, Annette Messager received one of the major recurring exhibitions in the museum with Sous vent from June 9th to October 3rd.

Publications

  • La collection. Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Sous la direction de Suzanne Pagé. Paris Musées, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-87900-888-2 .
  • L'inventaire des collections du Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Direction d'ouvrage Suzanne Pagé. Association Paris-Musées, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-87900-256-7 .
  • ARC 1973-1983. MAMARC Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Redaction par Suzanne Pagé and Juliette Laffon. Amis du Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-904497-02-1 .

Web links

Commons : Palais de Tokyo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collections en ligne. In: paris.fr. www.mam.paris.fr, accessed on May 3, 2019 (MAMVP search mask).
  2. ↑ Donation from the gallery owner Michael Werner ( Memento from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), MAMVP website.
  3. ↑ Spiegel Online from May 20, 2010: Get in, steal, become a multimillionaire. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  4. ↑ Focus Online , May 20, 2010: Pictures are worth less than assumed. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b 20 minutes online, May 20, 2010: Theft of the century in the Paris Museum. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  6. ↑ Peter Kropmanns: Searching for Traces in Paris: From Museum to Garbage Dump? faz.net, FAZ Print (?), May 19, 2012, online, updated May 24, 2012, accessed March 26, 2019.

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