Yamagata Museum of Art

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The Yamagata Museum of Art ( Japanese 山形 美術館 , Yamagata bijutsukan ) is an art museum in the Japanese city of Yamagata . The museum, run by a private foundation, was founded in 1964. The museum's collection includes Japanese and Asian art, regional art, and 19th and 20th century art from France.

history

The idea to found an art museum in Yamagata arose shortly after the end of the Second World War . The driving force was initially Yamagata Prefecture , but the search for a suitable location and the question of the organizational form delayed the establishment of the museum. The project could only be advanced with the establishment of a museum foundation. The initiator of this foundation was the Yamagata-based media entrepreneur Hattori Yoshio. He developed the model of the private museum foundation, which receives permanent support from Yamagata City and Yamagata Prefecture. The museum first opened its doors to the public in August 1964. An extension was added just four years later. For the 20th anniversary of the museum, the museum received a new building, which was opened in 1985.

collection

In the Hasegawa room , the museum shows works of art donated by the Hasegawa family. Hasegawa Kichiro, former chairman of Yamagata Bank, donated 163 Japanese works of art to the museum in 1968. This includes the picture The narrow path to the deep north of Yosa Buson . Further works of art were added in 1994 by Hasegawa Kenji and in 1995 by Hasegawa Kichishige. The works of art in these donations include works from the Kanō School and the Shijō School from the Edo period . Artists represented in this section include Matsuo Bashō , Kumashiro Yuhi , Tani Bunchō , Tanomura Chikuden , Yokoyama Kazan , Watanabe Kazan and Kawai Gyokudō .

  • Watanabe Kazan:
    Pheasant in a valley

  • Takahashi Yuichi:
    salmon

The sculpture room, dedicated to the two artists Shinkai Taketarō and Shinkai Takezō , serves as an exhibition space for works by the sculptors who are primarily known in the region. Shinkai Taketarō, born in Yamagata Prefecture, was one of the first modern sculptors in Japan. His nephew Shinkai Takezō was also influenced by Western art. Other regional artists represented in the museum are Takahashi Yuichi , Kanayama Heizō , Tsubaki Sadao and Komatsu Hitoshi .

When the new Yamagata Museum of Art opened in the 1980s, the management of the museum decided to build a collection of works of art from the 20th century by French artists or artists living in France. This department, named after the founder of the museum foundation Hattori Yoshio, includes paintings by Georges Rouault , Pablo Picasso , Marc Chagall , Maurice Brianchon , Paul Aizpiri , Bernard Buffet , Jean Pierre Cassigneul and Antoni Clavé . This department also includes sculptures by Aristide Maillol , Emile-Antoine Bourdelle and Auguste Rodin . Rodin's bronze sculpture Génie du repos éternel from 1899 , for example, can be seen.

The collection of more than 80 works of art from plasterboard manufacturer Yoshino Gypsum has been on permanent loan to the museum since 1991. The Tokyo-based company has amassed a corporate collection of 19th and 20th century art. These include works by the Barbizon School , French Impressionism , the École de Paris of the first half of the 20th century, Cubism and Abstract Art . Works of art on display include the paintings La baratteuse by Jean-François Millet , Jeune femme en robe du bal by Édouard Manet , Charing Cross Bridge, la Tamise by Claude Monet, and Jeune fille lisant dans un jardin by Pierre-Auguste Renoir . Other paintings in this collection are by Camille Pissarro , Edgar Degas , Alfred Sisley , Paul Cézanne , Henri Matisse , Maurice de Vlaminck , Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque , Marc Chagall and Wassily Kandinsky .

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
    Jeune fille lisant dans un jardin

  • Édouard Manet:
    Jeune femme en robe du bal

  • Claude Monet:
    Charing Cross Bridge, la Tamise

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The English-language name is also used in German literature. See for example Alexander Tolnay: Contemporary Photo Art from Japan , p. 126
  2. ↑ Jeune femme en robe du bal by Édouard Manet is listed in the catalog for the Manet exhibition in Tokyo 2010 with the owner's note "Yoshino Gypsum Co. Ltd. dépot au Yamagata Museum of Art". See Akiya Takahashi, Naoko Sugiyama: Manet et le Paris modern . Exhibition catalog Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Dai Nippon, Tokyo 2010, p. 226.

Coordinates: 38 ° 15 ′ 21.2 "  N , 140 ° 19 ′ 56.6"  E