Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli

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The Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli is an art museum in Turin . The Pinakothek is named after its founder Giovanni Agnelli and his wife Marella . The museum, designed by the architect Renzo Piano , opened in 2002 . It houses 25 works of art from the 18th to 20th centuries.

history

Fiat shareholder Giovanni Agnelli had the idea of ​​building a museum for their art collection in the early 1960s. In 1961 he initially commissioned Carlo Scarpa to plan a museum near Agnelli's home, Villar Perosa , which, however, did not come to fruition. In 1984 Agnelli then acquired Palazzo Grassi in Venice through a Fiat subsidiary , which he had Antonio Foscari and Gae Aulenti convert for museum purposes. Since then, highly acclaimed temporary exhibitions have taken place in this building. However, the Agnelli family's art collection was not exhibited there. In the 1990s, the idea of ​​setting up an art museum in Turin finally arose.

View of the former Fiat factory building and today's art museum

building

The museum is located on the roof of the Fiat Lingotto plant, which was closed in 1982 . The building, originally from the 1920s, was converted into a shopping center with a hotel, congress center and theater by 1989 under the direction of Renzo Piano. The special feature of the 500-meter-long Lingotto building is the former racing track on the roof, which was used as a car test track until the early 1980s. According to Renzo Piano's plans, a silver-colored building cube resting on four supports was created within the oval of the racetrack. A lamellar roof protrudes over this. The architect jokingly described the building, inaugurated in 2002, as a “shrine” and the roof structure as a “magic carpet”.

collection

The museum shows 23 paintings and two sculptures that the collector couple transferred from their private art collection to their own foundation. Giovanni Antonio Canal stands out among the eighteenth-century artists represented in the Pinakothek with a group of six views of Venice. There are also two paintings by Bernardo Bellotto on which the Dresden Frauenkirche and the Catholic Court Church can be seen. These pictures are complemented by the "Halberdier in a Landscape" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo .

The works of the 19th century in the Pinakothek include two sculptures by Antonio Canova as well as the paintings “The blonde bathing woman” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and “The negress” by Édouard Manet . The 20th century begins in the museum with Pablo Picasso's “L'Hétaire” from 1901. The Cubist painting “Homme appuyé sur une table” from 1915/16 by the same painter can also be seen. Amedeo Modigliani's nude "Nu couché" was created around the same time . The largest group of works is owned by Henri Matisse's art gallery, seven of which are on display in the art gallery. Furthermore, one painting each by the Italian artists Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla can be seen in the museum.

gallery

  • Giovanni Antonio Canal:
    Grand Canal and Santa Maria di Nazareth

  • Bernardo Bellotto:
    Neumarkt with Moritzstrasse in Dresden

  • Édouard Manet:
    The Negress

  • Amedeo Modigliani:
    Nu couché

Exhibitions

In addition to the permanent collection, the Pinacoteca Agnelli also hosts temporary exhibitions. So far, this has included exhibitions with classical photography from Muybridge to Cartier-Bresson , drawings by Gustav Klimt and graphic works of Expressionism . On the occasion of the Olympic Winter Games in Turin 2006, the Pinakothek showed landscape paintings from the collection of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

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literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 45 ° 1 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 58 ″  E