Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
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  Location within Strasbourg | |
| Established | 1890 |
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| Coordinates | 48°34′52″N 7°45′08″E / 48.581111°N 7.752222°E |
| Type | Fine arts museum |
| Collection size | paintings, sculptures |
| Website | en |
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of
Historical overview
The first municipal art collection of the city of Strasbourg was the result of the
On August 13, 1947, fire destroyed part of the re-established collection, including works by Francesco Guardi, Thomas de Keyser,[5] Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Lucas Cranach the Elder. However, with the money from the insurance, it was possible to acquire other artistically valuable paintings. Apart from regular purchases on the art market, the collection of the museum is also regularly being expanded by substantial donations, notably in 1987 and 1994 by collectors Othon Kaufman and François Schlageter (Italian paintings), in 2004 by collectors Roger and Elisabeth Eisenbeth (Dutch paintings,)[6] in 2009 by the collector Ann L. Oppenheimer (Italian, Flemish and Dutch paintings),[7] and in 2019 by the collectors Jeannine Poitrey and Marie-Claire Ballabio (mostly Italian and Dutch paintings).[8]
In 2005 the museum reached a settlement with the heirs of Bernhard Altmann over a Canaletto that had been looted by the Nazis from its Jewish owner.[9][10]
Painters exhibited (selected)
Italian
- Giotto di Bondone
- Sano di Pietro
- Sandro Botticelli
- Cima da Conegliano
- Carlo Crivelli
- Filippino Lippi
- Piero di Cosimo
- Cima da Conegliano
- Raphael
- Correggio
- Veronese
- Tintoretto
- Guercino
- Canaletto
- Giambattista Tiepolo
- Salvator Rosa
- Alessandro Magnasco
- Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Flemish and Dutch
- Simon Marmion
- Hans Memling
- Lucas van Leyden
- Gerard David
- Maarten van Heemskerck
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Jacob Jordaens
- Salomon van Ruysdael
- Pieter de Hooch
- Anthony van Dyck
- Willem Kalf
- Pieter Claesz
- Christiaen van Couwenbergh
- Cornelis Engelsz
Spanish
- El Greco
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Francisco de Zurbarán
- Francisco de Goya
French
- Philippe de Champaigne
- Claude Lorrain
- Nicolas de Largillière
- François Boucher
- Simon Vouet
- Antoine Watteau
- Jean Siméon Chardin
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Théodore Chassériau
- Gustave Courbet
- Théodore Rousseau
- Edgar Degas
Sculptors exhibited
- Baccio Bandinelli
- Alessandro Algardi
- Alessandro Vittoria
- François Girardon
- Jean-Antoine Houdon
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Antoine-Louis Barye
- Théodore-Charles Gruyère
- François Joseph Bosio
- Adolf von Hildebrand
See also
Bibliography
- Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg - Cinq siècles de peinture, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, May 2006, ISBN 2-901833-78-0in French
- Peintures flamandes et hollandaises du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, February 2009, ISBN 978-2-35125-030-3
- Les Peintures italiennes du Musée des Beaux-Arts, xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles, Éditions Le Seuil, 1996, ISBN 978-2-901833-30-7
- Les Primitifs italiens du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Éditions Le Seuil, 1993, ISBN 978-2-901833-14-7
References
- Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire
- ^ "Bilan des régions (hors musées nationaux)" (PDF). .culture.gouv.fr. French Ministry of Culture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ Andrea Christine Bambi: Rezension von Tessa Friederike Rosebrock, Kurt Martin und das Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. In: sehepunkte 12, 2012, Nr. 6 [15 June 2012]
- ISBN 978-2-7351-2688-0.
- ^ "Flemish and Dutch paintings at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg", The Art Tribune, 20 April 2009
- ^ "Agrandissement du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg" Archived 2012-11-09 at the Wayback Machine La Tribune de l'Art, 21 February 2007 (in French)
- ^ "Plusieurs tableaux légués au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg" Archived 2012-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, La Tribune de l'Art, 15 April 2009 (in French)
- ^ "Une donation exceptionnelle : tableaux, dessins et gravures (XVIe-XIXesiècles), collection Poitrey-Ballabio" (PDF). strasbourg.eu. pp. 815–877. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "Nazi loot claims: a French museum is trying to raise money to buy a Canaletto for the second time". The Art Newspaper. 3 June 2004. Archived from the original on November 3, 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
- ^ "Strasbourg settles with Bernhard Altmann heirs over Nazi-looted Canaletto". www.lootedart.com. 10 October 2005. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
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