Musée de l'Annonciade

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Musée de l'Annonciade, entrance facade

The Musée de l'Annonciade is an art museum in the southern French city of Saint-Tropez . It mainly shows works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries. One focus is on works by artists who were active in Saint-Tropez or who found their motifs in the Mediterranean landscape.

History and buildings

In 1922 the painters Henri Person and André Turin founded the Muséon Tropelen as the first art museum in Saint-Tropez. Above all, it should be a museum for works by contemporary artists who lived and worked in Saint-Tropez or the surrounding area. The collection initially comprised 32 works that artists such as Pierre Bonnard , Maximilien Luce , Charles Camoin , Louis Valtat , Ker-Xavier Roussel , Henri Manguin , Paul Signac and Théo van Rysselberghe had made available to the museum. The collection was initially shown in a room in the town hall, although the city initially showed little interest in a museum. After Henri Person's death in 1926, his widow took the initiative to establish the museum permanently in the city. She was able to win over the idea from the important collector Georges Grammont , who supported the project from 1936 and made his works of art available to the museum.

From 1937 the upper floor of the Chapelle Notre-Dame de l'Annonciade in the center of Saint-Tropez served as the museum building . The chapel was built around 1510 by the Confrérie de pénitents brotherhood . During the French Revolution , the building of churches became state property. In 1821 the bell tower was demolished and the building was initially used as a storage room and later as a shipyard for sailing boats. When the museum opened in 1937, there was still a theater on the ground floor of the building. It was not until 1950 that the museum was able to use the entire building. After corresponding renovations by the architect Louis Süe , the museum has been showing, among other things, the 56 works from the Grammont collection, which the state received as a foundation, since 1955.

collection

Paul Signac: Port de Saint-Tropez , 1899

The painter Paul Signac, who was friends with the museum's founder Henri Person, was the first artist to discover the charm of Saint-Tropez. He came to the place in 1892, which was an insignificant fishing village at that time. Signac acquired the La Hune house and set up his studio there. In the following years, Signac visited numerous other artists there, who also appreciated the charm of the place and the surrounding landscape and made them the subject of their works. The works of the artists around Signac form the focus of the museum's collections. Mainly works of art of Pointillism , Fauves and Nabis from the period between 1890 and 1950 are on display. In addition to paintings, the museum also has a collection of drawings and sculptures.

Paul Signac's works are particularly well represented in the collection, including, for example, the port view of Port de Saint-Tropez from 1899. There are also other pictures in the style of Pointillism by Georges Seurat , Maximilien Luce, Henri Edmond Cross and Théo van Rysselberghe. From the painters of Nabi and Symbolism , the museum has the works La soupe d'Annette by Édouard Vuillard , Nu devant la cheminée by Pierre Bonnard, Misia à son bureau by Félix Vallotton and La premiere toilette by Maurice Denis . The painting of the Fauves is represented in the museum by painters such as André Derain ( Pont sur la tamise ), Maurice de Vlaminck ( Le pont de Chatou ), Raoul Dufy ( Jetée de Honfleur ), Henri Manguin ( La gitane à l'atelier ), Georges Braque ( Paysage de l'Estaque ), Kees van Dongen ( La gitane ou La curieuse ), Georges Rouault ( Paysage Biblique ) and works by Albert Marquet , Jean Puy , Henri Matisse , Charles Camoin and Othon Friesz . The museum has other works by artists such as Roger de La Fresnaye , Aristide Maillol , Suzanne Valadon , Maurice Utrillo , Francis Picabia , Robert Delaunay and André Lhote .

Exhibitions (selection)

See also

literature

  • Jean-Paul Monery: Le Musée de l'Annonciade Saint-Tropez . Fondation Paribas, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-907333-47-X .

Web links

Commons : Chapelle de l'Annonciade (Saint-Tropez)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 43 ° 16 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 13.6 ″  E