Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg

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Barrage Vauban and MAMCS
Interior view at night

The Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg) is an art museum in Strasbourg founded in 1973 and opened in its own building in 1998 .

The museum houses extensive collections of painting, sculpture, graphics, video art and design from the period from 1870 ( Impressionism ) to the present day, as well as a richly stocked photo library ; a total of over 17,500 items. It organizes numerous exhibitions each year, which are either devoted to the retrospective of a particular artist or a movement. The building also houses the art library of the municipal museums ( Bibliothèque d'art des musées municipaux ), the art bookstore of the municipal museums ( Librairie d'art des musées municipaux ) and a multi-purpose hall ( auditorium ) for conferences, film screenings and concerts. The spacious roof terrace houses a museum café.

building

The municipal collection of modern and contemporary art in the city of Strasbourg had been steadily enlarged and enriched since 1871 and the establishment of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . The plan to build an independent museum had been nurtured since the 1960s.

The building, erected between 1995 and 1998, was designed by the Parisian architect Adrien Fainsilber . The exhibition and usable areas unfold on both sides of a central, glazed foyer, which is designed with an interior length of 104 meters and an interior height of 22 meters in cathedral-like dimensions. On the roof there is a 4 meter high horse sculpture (“Hortus conclusus”) by the Italian artist Mimmo Paladino . The building is located on the edge of the old town, near the École nationale d'administration and the architecturally significant baroque “Barrage Vauban” (Vauban dam) and medieval “Ponts couverts” (covered bridges). It is served by the Strasbourg tram with its own stop ("Musée d'Art moderne", lines B and C).

collection

The best represented artists in the collection were (as of March 3, 2020) Gustave Doré with 424 works, Max Klinger with 146 works, Hans Arp with 60 works, Max Ernst with 46 works, Victor Brauner with 37 works, Käthe Kollwitz with 33 works, Sophie Taeuber-Arp with 29 works, Wassily Kandinsky with 21 works, César Domela with 10 works, Theo van Doesburg with 7 works, etc. Internationally less well-known artists are partly represented even more extensively: Lou Albert-Lasard with 2004 [ !] Works, Marcelle Cahn with 348 works, Lothar von Seebach with 321 works, etc. Newer and newer German painting ( Markus Lüpertz , Eugen Schönebeck , Georg Baselitz , Jörg Immendorff , AR Penck , Albert Oehlen , Daniel Richter , Jonathan Meese , Thomas Scheibitz ...), which is a representative aperçu of a trend that is rarely represented in France, especially to this extent.

The Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg also houses the first Cubist painting to be acquired by a French public collection , the “Still Life” (1911) by Georges Braque , acquired in 1923 , and the first by Dante Gabriel to be acquired by a French public collection Rossetti , "Joan of Arc kissing the Sword of Deliverance" (1863), purchased in 1996.

Other important exhibited visual artists (selection):

Also significant in terms of number and at least regional value are the holdings of Alsatian artists, representatives of the Art Nouveau , Expressionism and New Objectivity trends : Charles Spindler , René Beeh , Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach , Henri Beecke , Luc Hueber , Martin Hubrecht and Camille Claus .

The museum's photo library has several thousand pictures from the origins of photography to the present day, including works by Nadar , Eugène Atget , Eadweard Muybridge , Étienne-Jules Marey , August Sander , Willy Maywald , Josef Sudek , Robert Mapplethorpe , Duane Michals and Jan Saudek . Regional photography is also recognized.

The video art collection has works by Bill Viola , Nam June Paik , Woody Vasulka , Olaf Breuning and many others

Web links

Commons : Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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literature

  • Les collections du musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg , Éditions des musées de la ville de Strasbourg, February 2008, ISBN 978-2-901833-82-6

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  E