Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
The Boijmans Van Beuningen museum is the largest art museum in Rotterdam with numerous paintings and sculptures. The director has been the art historian Sjarel Ex since 2004 .
history
The building in Museum Park Rotterdam was constructed from 1928 to 1935 according to plans by the architect Ad van der Steur. It was expanded from 1963 to 1972 and from 2000 to 2003. The museum's collection, which was previously stored in the museum's basement, will be made accessible to the public in 2018 in an art depot designed by the architect Winy Maas , which will be built in the museum park in 2017. The museum is listed as a Rijksmonument .
collection
The museum's holdings come partly from the bequest of the Rotterdam lawyer Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans from 1847. In 1958 the museum acquired the collection of the industrialist and shipowner Daniel George van Beuningen. In later years the collection was expanded through purchases and other donations.
In the museum you can see a small version of the “ Tower of Babel ” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder , works by Rembrandt , Jan Steen , Vincent van Gogh and works by many masters of the 20th century. The important graphic collection owns the world's only generally recognized drawing by Giorgione (1478–1510).
The glorification of Maria von Geertgen dead Sint Jans
Vincent van Gogh , portrait of Armand Roulin
Jan van Scorel , portrait of a young student
Giorgione (1478–1510): The Castel San Zeno, Montagnana
Outdoor facilities
In 2005, the six-meter-high sculpture Santa Claus by the American performance artist Paul McCarthy was installed in front of the museum . It is a dwarf-like representation of a Santa Claus who holds a butt plug in his right hand and is supposed to satirize consumer greed. The sculpture is now located further east on Eendrachtsplein.
At the northeast corner of the museum, on Westersingel, is the sculpture Sylvette by Pablo Picasso , a stone sculpture with drawings.
exhibition
- 2010: Divided Divided , Carsten Höller , part of the exhibition is the opportunity to spend all alone in the museum until the morning after the museum has closed. You are equipped with a torch and all rooms are open. You can sleep in the Revolving Hotel Room , an installation by the artist (1988) from the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan . A staff member of the museum has to assist if necessary and he prepares breakfast in the morning.
Web links
- Museum website (Dutch, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dutch register of monuments
- ↑ Art-Magazin ( Memento of the original from December 1st, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 52 " N , 4 ° 28 ′ 23" E