Armand Hammer Museum of Art
The Hammer Museum and Cultural Center , shortly Hammer Museum and the UCLA Hammer Museum called, is a art museum in the district of Westwood of Los Angeles , California. It is from the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture of the University of California operated.
history
The museum was founded by Armand Hammer , then head of Occidental Petroleum Corporation , in November 1990. He was previously a board member of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for almost 20 years and had actually committed his private art collection to this museum. When Hammer had his own museum built by the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes next to the company headquarters to showcase his extensive art collection, the LACMA and the public were surprised. The construction of the 7200 m² three-story building cost 60 million dollars, the foundation capital was 38 million in the beginning. Since the money came from the company's capital, the shareholders sued and thus managed to limit the equipment costs. Armand Hammer died 15 days after the museum opened, now run by the University of California.
Collections
The core of the collection are the works of art originally acquired by Armand Hammer. These include some old master paintings such as the portrait of a man in armor by Titian , the picture Young Woman with Curly Hair by Peter Paul Rubens or the works Juno and Portrait of a Man Holding a Black Hat by Rembrandt van Rijn . There are also paintings by Jean Siméon Chardin , Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Francisco de Goya . The majority of the works from Hammer's private collection date from the 19th and early 20th centuries. These include images such as King David and Salomé dancing before Herod by Gustave Moreau , Portrait of a Man by Théodore Géricault , Sarah Bernhardt by Alfred Stevens or the still life of Peonies in a blue and white vase by Henri Fantin-Latour . There are also paintings from French Impressionism such as Alice Legouvé in an armchair by Édouard Manet , View of Bordighera by Claude Monet and Boulevard Montmartre, Mardi Gras by Camille Pissarro, and works from Late Impressionism such as Resting Young Man by Paul Cézanne , Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin by Paul Gauguin , Touc, sitting on the table by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the paintings The Parish Garden in Nuenen in the Snow , The Sower and Trees in the Garden of the Saint-Paul Hospital by Vincent van Gogh . There are also works by American artists such as Summertime by Mary Cassatt and Dr. Pozzi at Home by John Singer Sargent . The Daumier collection in the museum, comprising around 7,500 objects, is particularly extensive . In addition to sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints by Honoré Daumier, this collection also includes works by his contemporaries. The Hammer Museum also has the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts with its collection of more than 45,000 works on paper. This goes back to the Los Angeles native Fred Grunwald (1898–1968), who had already donated his approximately 5,000 works to the University of California in 1956, including graphics and prints by artists such as Hieronymus Wierix or Albrecht Dürer, as well as numerous Japanese prints.
Rembrandt van Rijn:
Juno , around 1662–1665
Édouard Manet:
Alice Legouvé in an armchair , around 1875
John Singer Sargent:
Dr. Pozzi at Home , 1881
Vincent van Gogh:
Trees in the Garden of the Saint-Paul Hospital , 1889
Mary Cassatt:
Summertime , 1894
controversy
The museum hit the headlines in 1994 when it sold Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $ 30.8 million. This codex was one of the most famous collectibles that Hammer bought in 1980 for $ 5.12 million. Contrary to the guidelines of other museums that use the profits from their sales to purchase new collectibles, the Hammer Museum sold the 72-page scientific codex to fund its exhibitions and events.
Exhibitions
- 2013: Llyn Foulkes
- 2013: Richard Artschwager ! , the exhibition was conceived in 2012 by the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan , New York City, USA
- 2014: Nathaniel Mellors
- 2014/2015: Mario García Torres
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the museum ( Memento from July 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 34 ° 3 ′ 34 " N , 118 ° 26 ′ 37" W.