Museu de Arte de São Paulo

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Museu de Arte de São Paulo

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo , or MASP, is located in São Paulo ( Brazil ) and was founded on October 2nd, 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi .

building

The famous Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi , wife of the museum co-founder Bardi, designed the new museum building, which opened on November 7, 1968 in the presence of Elisabeth II . Since the Avenida Paulista, on which the new building is located, should have a clear view of the city center, the building is suspended from four steel girders. The space under the building is still a public space with numerous activities, such as B. an antique market that takes place on Sundays.

Collections

The museum is the most important art museum in Brazil with an extensive collection of paintings and sculptures from the 14th century to the present day. The exhibited artists include Karel Appel , Max Beckmann , Giovanni Bellini , Giovanni Boldini , Pierre Bonnard , Paris Bordone , Hieronymus Bosch , Sandro Botticelli , Alexander Calder , Paul Cézanne , Marc Chagall , Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , François Clouet , Jean- Baptiste-Camille Corot , Piero di Cosimo , Lucas Cranach the Elder , Honoré Daumier , Edgar Degas , Eugène Delacroix , Anthonis van Dyck , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Paul Gauguin , El Greco , Vincent van Gogh , Jean Baptiste Greuze , Frans Hals , Hans Holbein the Younger , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , Fernand Léger , Jacques Lipchitz , Édouard Manet , Andrea Mantegna , Henri Matisse , Hans Memling , Amedeo Modigliani , Claude Monet , Max Pechstein , Pablo Picasso , Giambattista Pittoni , Nicolas Poussin , Raffael , Rembrandt van Rijn , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Diego Rivera , Peter Paul Rubens , Salomon van Ruysdael , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Maurice Utrillo , Jacopo Tintoretto , Suzanne Valadon and Edouard Vuillard . There are also collections of African and Asian art, ancient and Brazilian art from the 20th century.

On December 20, 2007, two paintings worth around 70 million euros were stolen at 5 a.m. The stolen works were “Portrait de Suzanne Bloch” by Pablo Picasso and the painting “O Lavrador de Café” by Candido Portinari . The São Paulo police were able to locate the pictures on January 8, 2008 and return them to the museum undamaged.

Exhibited works

(Selection)

  • Giambattista Pittoni:
    Bacchus and Ariadne , 1730

  • Andrea Mantegna:
    Hieronymus

  • Giovanni Bellini:
    Madonna Willys

  • Anthony van Dyck:
    William Howard

  • Frans Hals:
    Portrait of a seated officer

  • Édouard Manet:
    Portrait of Gilbert-Marcellin Desboutin

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
    Portrait of the Mlles Cahen d'Anvers

  • Vincent van Gogh:
    Schoolboy

Collection presentation

In 2016, the exhibition concept for the free-standing works of art developed by the architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1968 was restored on the second floor. The pictures are now shown again in transparent glass stands that are stuck in concrete cubes.

Lina Bo Bardi's exhibition concept for the MASP

literature

  • Ettore Camesasca: From Raffael to Goya: Masterpieces from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Villa Stuck exhibition catalog. 1989, ISBN 3-923244-10-X .
  • PM Bardi, Ettore Camesasca: From Courbet to Picasso. Treasures of the São Paulo Museum. Villa Stuck exhibition catalog. 1989, ISBN 3-923244-08-8 .
  • Aldo Van Eyck, Lina Bo Bardi: Lina Bo Bardi: Sao Paulo Museum. Editorial Blau, LDA, 1997, ISBN 972-8311-13-3 .
  • Eugen Külborn (editor): Galeria Mundi. A trip through the museums. Hoechst AG, Frankfurt am Main 1981, pp. 82-103. ( Museu de Arte, São Paulo )

Web links

Commons : Museu de Arte de São Paulo  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ORF: Million Coup in São Paulo ( Memento of December 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Kolja Reichert: The parade of the risen masterpieces. In: FAZ of May 18, 2016, page 13

Coordinates: 23 ° 33 ′ 41.5 ″  S , 46 ° 39 ′ 21 ″  W.