Museo Cantonale d'Arte

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The entrance of the museum

The Museo Cantonale d'Arte was an art museum in Lugano and was responsible for the scientific processing of the art treasures of the Canton of Ticino . The museum opened in 1987 and merged with the city's Museo d'Arte to form the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in 2015.

building

The collections of the canton and the city are housed in the former city palace Palazzo Reali from the 15th century. This is located in the center of the city on Via Canova. After several years of renovation, it will reopen as a MASI location in December 2019.

collection

The focus of the canton's collection is on the 19th and 20th centuries. Most of the works come from collections in Ticino. The museum paid particular attention to the artists of Italian-speaking Switzerland. The collection is entered in the Swiss Inventory (KGS) as a “category A cultural asset of national importance”.

Represented include Cuno Amiet , Hans Arp , Joseph Beuys , Max Bill , Paul Camenisch , Gianfredo Camesi , Carlo Carrà , Felice Casorati , Enzo Cucchi , Edgar Degas , Filippo De Pisis , Giovanni Battista Discepoli , Franz Eggenschwiler , Jean-Michel Folon , Achille Funi , Flor Garduño , Franz Gertsch , Willy Guggenheim , Ferdinand Hodler , Max Huber , Leiko Ikemura , Jasper Johns , Hans Peter Klauser , Paul Klee , Sol Lewitt , Urs Lüthi , Léo Maillet , Aristide Maillol , Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Marino Marini , Gordon Mallet McCouch , Pier Francesco Mola , Marcello Morandini , Ben Nicholson , Meret Oppenheim , Gabriel Orozco , Giuseppe Antonio Petrini , Camille Pissarro , Anne and Patrick Poirier , Imre Reiner , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Pipilotti Rist , Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli , Auguste Rodin , Ottone Rosai , Medardo Rosso , Richard Seewald , Mario Sironi , Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Jean Tinguely , Joseph Mallord William Turner and Italo Valenti .

Web links

Commons : Museo Cantonale d'Arte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cantonal Art Museum ( Memento from May 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), City of Lugano
  2. ↑ Kulturgüterschutz inventory with objects of national importance: MASI: Museo Cantonale dell arte ?? . (accessed on December 2, 2019)

Coordinates: 46 ° 0 '15.9 "  N , 8 ° 57' 11.7"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred seventeen thousand three hundred twenty-six  /  95,893