Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

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Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is one of the most important art museums in the city of São Paulo in Brazil .

The picture gallery is located in the immediate vicinity of the Estação da Luz , the city's central train station, in a large brick building designed by Ramos de Azevedo , the important Paulistani architect. The building was inaugurated in 1905 and was originally intended to serve as the seat of the “Liceu de Artes e Oficios”. In 1911 it was converted into a museum by decree.

Since the renovation led by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in the 1990s, in which a mixture of old building fabric and modern architectural elements made the building one of the most impressive museums of all, this institution has become one of the most dynamic in the country.

An annex to the Pinacoteca is the Estação Pinacoteca on the other side of the Estação da Luz; this building is available for exhibitions and houses the documentation center of the Pinacoteca. During the military dictatorship, this was the seat of the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social .

In June 2008, four paintings were stolen from an art theft (two by Pablo Picasso and two by Lasar Segall ). Two more pictures by Pablo Picasso disappeared from this museum a year earlier.

The German art historian and curator Jochen Volz has been the director of the Pinakothek since May 2017 .

literature

  • Taisa Palhares (ed.): Arte brasileira na Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Do século XIX aos anos 1940 . Cosac Naify, São Paulo 2009, ISBN 978-85-7503-633-4 .

Web links

Commons : Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. BBC: Two Picassos stole in Brazil
  2. Pinacoteca de São Paulo anuncia Jochen Volz como diretor-geral. In: Jornal O Globo . December 8, 2016, accessed May 23, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).

Coordinates: 23 ° 32 ′ 3.1 ″  S , 46 ° 38 ′ 1 ″  W.