National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is a museum and art gallery in Melbourne in the Southbank neighborhood. Opened in 1861, the gallery is the oldest and largest public gallery in Australia.
In 2017 the gallery had 2.5 million visitors, making it one of the most visited art museums in the world.
Surname
The designation as the National Gallery of Victoria is sometimes viewed as misleading because Victoria is not a sovereign nation and Australia maintains the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra . The director of the NGA wanted to force a change in the name of the NGV. The name of the NGV, which was founded 40 years before the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, recalls the time when Victoria was a separate British colony.
collection
In the museum works from all areas of art up to product design are exhibited. A total of 65,000 works are held. In addition to Australian artists, the museum also contains works by Europeans Pablo Picasso , Giambattista Pittoni , Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Marco Palmezzano , Rembrandt , Peter Paul Rubens , Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Paolo Uccello and Paolo Veronese . The most expensive single purchase was a painting by the painter Paris Bordone for AU $ 3.8 million.
In the department of design are classic cars as a 57 Bugatti Type , such as the furniture Lounge Chair of Eames or the Swan by Arne Jacobsen shown and other products.
Picasso theft
Part of the series picture "The Weeping Woman" by Pablo Picasso was stolen on August 4, 1986. The "Australian Cultural Terrorists", who wanted to protest against Australian art politics with the action, claimed responsibility. A week later, the picture was found in locker 227 at Melbourne Southern Cross Station after an anonymous caller reported the location to The Age newspaper . The perpetrators could not be identified.
building
The architecture firm Grounds Romberg Boyd was commissioned in 1959 to build a new gallery and a cultural center. When Roy Grounds parted ways with the company in 1962, he took the job with him. In December 1967, the building on St. Kilda Road was opened, henceforth known as NGV International . Mario Bellini renovated the building near the Yarra River from 1999 to 2003.
The Ian Potter Center opened a second building on the other side of the Yarra River in 2003. The building is on Federation Square , Melbourne's art and gallery block. The Ian Potter Center , named after the Australian businessman and philanthropist Ian Potter, who died in 1994, exhibits Australian art, while international art is on display in the main building.
numbers
In 2008 the museum had 1.48 million visitors in the free part. The paid special exhibitions had 262,000 visitors.
The museum was given in 2008 by the Australian government 44.4 million AUD and himself took a 28.6 million AUD. The financial statements showed a profit of A $ 2.8 million. In the same year the museum employed 226 people.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visitor Figures 2017. Accessed June 11, 2018 .
- ↑ a b ngv.vix.gov.au: Annual Report 2007–2008, Part I ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 11.9 MiB)
- ↑ Patrick McCaughey: The woman in locker 227 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in The Sydney Morning Herald , August 16, 2003
- ↑ Louise McO. Green: NGV Women's Association History. (No longer available online.) National Gallery of Victoria, archived from the original on Aug. 30, 2007 ; Retrieved May 25, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ngv.vix.gov.au: Annual Report 2007–2008, Part II ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 1 MiB)
Coordinates: 37 ° 49 ′ 21.3 ″ S , 144 ° 58 ′ 7.1 ″ E