Museum of Sketches for Public Art
Skissernas museum (museum of sketches ) is an art museum in the southern Swedish city of Lund.
History
The museum was founded in 1934 by the then Professor of Art History at the University of Lund, Ragnar Josephson as an archive of decorative arts faculty in art history. The intent Josephson was to illustrate the creative process of an artwork from the idea to the finished work. It sketches, models and photographs of art were collected in public spaces, as these were particularly suitable according to Josephson as study material. The call for the creation of such an archive was already in 1933 by artist Georg Pauli at an exhibition in Lund.
The first archive material was purchased postcards to the decorative arts. The initiative of the archive was soon perceived by artists in Sweden and the number of donations and purchase requests became more frequent. So gave about Prince Eugene the archive material.
Once the archive continued to grow, leaving the university Josephson 1941 a former teacher training college as new premises on the corner Sölvegatan and Finngatan, near the University Library. The upstream sculpture garden of the museum stands in the park of Helgonabacken. The archives of the public was Henceforth made available and maintained as a museum. Since 1979, the museum is as a separate unit of the University of Lund.
Today
The museum and the non-public archive now accommodate about 30,000 objects from around the world. The development of the creative process of creation, the "birth of the artwork ," according to its own description is the center of activity. In addition to the permanently accessible permanent collection and temporary exhibitions a year. The permanent exhibition is spread over two floors and is divided geographically. The ground floor houses the Swedish, the International, the Mexican and the Skulpurensaal. A floor above are sketches and models from the other Nordic countries. Here also the special exhibitions.
Worth mentioning are the works about Sigrid Hjertén and Isaac Grünewald at the Swedish Hall as well as sketches of Fernand Léger, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Sonia and Robert Delaunay and cartons by Henri Matisse in the International Hall. In Mexican hall are works about David Alfaro Siqueiros, Juan O'Gorman and Rufino Tamayo. The sculpture hall is dominated by the plaster model of Hill Arches by Henry Moore. Here you can find further works by Christo and Jeanne- Claude, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro or Claes Oldenburg. In the Nordic halls works about Kirsten Ortwed, Dagfin Werenskiold and Leif Breidfjord can be found.