Stedelijk Museum

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Museum building of the Stedelijk Museum (2007)

The Stedelijk Museum ( German  Municipal Museum ) is an art museum in Amsterdam in the Paulus-Potterstraat of the Oud-Zuid district in the Amsterdam-Zuid district . The Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum are in the immediate vicinity .

history

1895 to 2003

The City Museum was founded in 1895 as a city history museum for the estate of the widow of the Jewish art and antique collector Pieter Lopez Suasso, Sophia Adriana de Bruijn . The museum building was designed by Adriaan Willem Weissman in the neo-renaissance style. Furniture, coins, silverware, jewelery and home furnishings from old Amsterdam houses were shown first. A weapons collection and an old pharmacy facility could also be viewed.

Between 1920 and 1940, parts of the collections began to be moved to other museums. A collection of contemporary Dutch and French art was created at the same time. From 1930 onwards, the museum housed the extensive Van Gogh collection, which moved to its own museum ( Van Gogh Museum ) next door in 1972 . In the early 1970s, the last of the historic home furnishings were outsourced and the museum established itself as Amsterdam's premier destination for modern art.

Under the directors Edy de Wilde and Rudi Fuchs an international orientation of the collection and the exhibitions took place.

Closure and renovation from 2003 to 2012

Interim solution: The Stedelijk Museum in the Post CS building (2005)

In 2003 the historical museum building had to be closed due to fire protection regulations. Parts of the collection (art from 1968) could be seen until September 2008 in the now demolished Post CS building east of Amsterdam Central Station .

The new part of the Stedelijk Museum building

The Stedelijk Museum was rebuilt according to designs by Benthem Crouwel Architects. In the meantime, the museum was hosting exhibitions and other activities in various locations across Amsterdam. On March 3, 2011, the exhibition Temporary Stedelijk 2 was opened in the renovated but not yet completed historical part of the building. After the bankruptcy of the construction company Midreth commissioned with the conversion, the conversion was delayed. Construction work on the project, which will cost at least 4.5 million euros, has been suspended since February 2011. At the end of March 2011, the municipality of Amsterdam announced the takeover of the project by the construction company VolkerWessels .

The reopening took place on September 22, 2012 by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands .

collection

All major trends in modern art are exemplarily represented in the Stedelijk Museum. In addition to artists of classical modernism ( Pablo Picasso , Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Paul Cézanne , Wassily Kandinsky , Marc Chagall ), extensive groups of works by the De Stijl artist communities ( Piet Mondrian , Theo van Doesburg , Gerrit Rietveld ) and CoBrA ( see also Cobra Museum in Amstelveen). Kasimir Malewitsch is represented with 29 pictures and there are collections with German Expressionists , American Pop Art , video artists ( Nam June Paik , Bruce Nauman ), Arte Povera , contemporary Germans ( Reinhard Mucha , Anselm Kiefer , Georg Baselitz , Markus Lüpertz , AR Penck ) and current British art ( Gilbert & George , Damien Hirst ).

Awards

In 2009, the Stedelijk Museum received the Turing Award for exhibition , which was presented for the first time and is endowed with 450,000 euros. The museum received the prize money for the concept of an exhibition (conceived and curated by Eva Meyer-Hermann ) by the American artist Mike Kelley , which was presented as a retrospective after the reopening.

See also

Web links

Commons : Stedelijk Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stedelijk Museum , amsterdam.citysam.de, accessed on October 28, 2012.
  2. ↑ Afbouw Stedelijk miljoenen duurder. In: Het Parool , accessed on March 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ Nieuwbouw Stedelijk next week emerged. Radio Televisie Noord-Holland, accessed on March 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum reopens. orf.at, accessed on September 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Christian Schlösser: Popularization of the museum. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of October 10, 2012, accessed on October 10, 2012.
  6. ^ Exhibition website

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 29 "  N , 4 ° 52 ′ 47"  E