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Fine arts museum
The
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
(Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of
Strasbourg
, located in the
Alsace
region of
France
. The museum is housed in the first and second floors of the baroque
Palais Rohan
since 1898. The museum displays works by non-
Upper Rhenish
artists from between the 14th century and 1871 and by Upper Rhenish artist from between 1681 and 1871.
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The museum owned 1,934 works as of 31 December 2015,
[2]
this number has substantially increased since (see below). The old masters from the upper-Rhenish area until 1681 are exhibited in the neighboring
Musee de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame
.
Historical overview
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The first municipal art collection of the city of Strasbourg was the result of the
French Revolution
, and was a consequence of the expropriation of churches and cloisters. Through the years, the collection, which was founded in 1801, grew by private donations, as well as government loans from the inventory of the
Louvre
. On August 24, 1870, the museum, which was housed in the
Aubette
on
Place Kleber
, was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire and completely destroyed. After the end of the
Franco-Prussian War
, it was resolved to re-establish the museum, and the imperial art historian
Wilhelm von Bode
was commissioned with the task in 1889. In 1890, the museum was launched and was re-stocked since that time by acquisitions and gifts. In 1931 under the leadership of Hans Haug (1890?1965), the collection of medieval art and upper-Rhenish painting (
Konrad Witz
,
Hans Baldung
,
Sebastian Stoskopff
) was transferred to the newly founded
Musee de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame
. The collection of modern art went to the
Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
(Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg). Haug's superior during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944 was
Kurt Martin
.
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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 Francois 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),
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and in 2019 by the collectors Jeannine Poitrey and Marie-Claire Ballabio (mostly Italian and Dutch paintings).
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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.
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Painters exhibited (selected)
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Italian
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- 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
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- 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
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- El Greco
- Jusepe de Ribera
- Francisco de Zurbaran
- Francisco de Goya
French
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- Philippe de Champaigne
- Claude Lorrain
- Nicolas de Largilliere
- Francois Boucher
- Simon Vouet
- Antoine Watteau
- Jean Simeon Chardin
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Theodore Chasseriau
- Gustave Courbet
- Theodore Rousseau
- Edgar Degas
Sculptors exhibited
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- Baccio Bandinelli
- Alessandro Algardi
- Alessandro Vittoria
- Francois Girardon
- Jean-Antoine Houdon
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
- Antoine-Louis Barye
- Theodore-Charles Gruyere
- Francois Joseph Bosio
- Adolf von Hildebrand
See also
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Bibliography
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- Le musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg - Cinq siecles de peinture
, Editions des Musees de Strasbourg, May 2006,
ISBN
2-901833-78-0
in French
- Peintures flamandes et hollandaises du Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
, Editions des Musees de Strasbourg, February 2009,
ISBN
978-2-35125-030-3
- Les Peintures italiennes du Musee des Beaux-Arts, xvie, xviie et xviiie siecles
, Editions Le Seuil, 1996,
ISBN
978-2-901833-30-7
- Les Primitifs italiens du Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
, Editions Le Seuil, 1993,
ISBN
978-2-901833-14-7
References
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1871 is the year of the annexation of
Alsace-Lorraine
to the
German Empire
- ^
"Bilan des regions (hors musees 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 Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. In: sehepunkte 12, 2012, Nr. 6 [15 June 2012]
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Rosebrock, Tessa Friederike; Hergott, Fabrice; Lang, Paul (2019-12-12).
Kurt Martin et le musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
(in French). Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme.
ISBN
978-2-7351-2688-0
.
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"Flemish and Dutch paintings at the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg"
, The Art Tribune, 20 April 2009
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"Agrandissement du Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg"
Archived
2012-11-09 at the
Wayback Machine
La Tribune de l'Art, 21 February 2007
(in French)
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"Plusieurs tableaux legues au Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg"
Archived
2012-11-09 at the
Wayback Machine
, La Tribune de l'Art, 15 April 2009
(in French)
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"Une donation exceptionnelle : tableaux, dessins et gravures (XVIe-XIXesiecles), collection Poitrey-Ballabio"
(PDF)
.
strasbourg.eu
. pp. 815?877
. Retrieved
13 November
2019
.
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"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
.
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"Strasbourg settles with Bernhard Altmann heirs over Nazi-looted Canaletto"
.
www.lootedart.com
. 10 October 2005
. Retrieved
2022-11-03
.
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