Musee de Montmartre
The Musée de Montmartre (Montmartre Museum) is located at Rue Cortot N ° 8-14 in Paris' 18th arrondissement . Opened in 1960, it has been registered since 2003 as the Musée de France under Law N ° 2002-5 of January 4th, 2002.
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The Musée de Montmartre is located in the middle of a complex of buildings built in the 19th century that includes the Hôtel Demarne and the Maison du Bel Air. Originally it housed apartments and studios. It reflects the history of the quarter, its bohemian style, the flourishing of its famous cabarets and the artistic ambience of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Auguste Renoir had his studio there in 1876 and created canvas paintings such as The Ball of the Moulin de la Galette or The Swing during his stay . Suzanne Valadon , her son Maurice Utrillo and her husband André Utter , Emile Bernard , the fauvists Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy , the Greek painter and draftsman Dimitrios Galanis , the writers Léon Bloy and Pierre Reverdy and the poster artist Francisque Poulbot also lived and worked there. Studios, such as that of Suzanne Valadon, were faithfully restored in 2014.
The collection
The permanent collection of the Musée de Montmartre is housed in the Maison du Bel Air. It includes a number of paintings, posters, photographs and objects that may include a. are signed by Modigliani , Kupka , Toulouse-Lautrec or Utrillo . Among these works are The Cabaret du Chat Noir by Steinlen , Aristide Bruant dans son Cabaret , The Japanese Divan or Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec , The Place Pigalle by Maurice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon's self-portrait, Parce Domine by Adolphe Willette , the figurehead of the cabaret Le Lapin Agile and also the shadow theater by Henri Rivière . Temporary exhibitions have taken place once a year in the renovated Hôtel Demarne since 2014.
The collection is owned by the Association du Vieux Montmartre (Association of Old Montmartre), founded in 1886 . The aim of the association is to preserve and enrich the artistic, historical and ethnological evidence of Montmartre.
The Renoir Gardens and the Vineyards
The Renoir Gardens were redecorated in 2012 based on the paintings Renoir created during his stay in Rue Cortot. Fruit trees such as pear and almond grow there, as well as shrubs such as lilacs, roses and climbing hydrangeas. From there you can see the vineyards of Montmartre. These already existed in the Middle Ages and were replanted in 1933.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 15.7 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 26.2" E