Barnes Foundation

The Barnes Foundation is a college in Pennsylvania. The 1922 by Albert Coombs Barnes founded institution has its headquarters in Merion, a suburb of Philadelphia. There is an arboretum and a library of gardening. The same place issued until 2011 art collection, is since May 19, 2012 in a new building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia open to the public. For art collection includes masterpieces of French Impressionism and late Impressionism.

Origin

The Barnes Foundation was founded in 1922 by Albert Coombs Barnes School of Philosophy and Art. Came out this entity from lecture and discussion events which Dr. Barnes in his pharmaceutical factory launched itself and to which he invited scholars such as William James, Bertrand Russell and John Dewey. Barnes focus was especially on the formation of the lower social classes. In a time when it was still partially racial segregation in the U.S., Barnes felt by African-American population particularly connected and encouraged them not only as students, but was also interested in their culture and art.

Albert C. Barnes was a substantial art collection together (181 Renoir, Cézanne 69, 60 Matisse, Picasso 46, 21 Chaim Soutine and 18 Rousseau, in addition, works by Amedeo Modigliani, Degas, van Gogh, Seurat, Monet, old masters, African sculptures, as well as works of African-American artists). This collection he founded the Barnes Foundation. Barnes developed its own system of art education, which was based primarily on teaching the students directly in front of the original images.

Move the art collection to Philadelphia

The Barnes Foundation expressly understood by the will of its founder, not a museum. Due to the teaching, it was not the student audience available only on weekends and holidays - by appointment - to visit this collection. The headquarters of the Barnes Foundation in Merion is located in an upscale residential area outside of Philadelphia. This meant that a resident initiative founded, which the visitor traffic limited by a court decision with the car and all bus prohibited. This could only see the collection of 250 visitors per week. As early as the 1990s came the Barnes Foundation because of management failures in financial difficulties. While the art collection was worth more than two billion U.S. dollars, but there was no money for necessary repairs. The building had not been renovated since 1923 ( heating, alarm system, etc. ) and the teaching threatened to be set. It was discussed some of the paintings to sell. The Testament of Dr. Barnes has been challenged in court. He had, inter alia, has not to allow color reproductions of the paintings and none of the pictures ever borrow. The court decided, however, that the receipt of the collection and to carry on the teaching activities color reproductions and an exhibition tour to Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington and Philadelphia was allowed. With the lending fees, which had to pay the respective museums, the sale of catalogs and appropriate souvenir items was initially generated enough money to renovate the building and continue teaching. As the financial situation of the Barnes Foundation did not improve permanently, various foundations agreed to secure the future of the Barnes Foundation in the long term. But condition was a change of the existing line and the complete relocation of the art collection of the location in Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, where there is already the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection stands there in a new building by the architect - couple Williams / Tsien open to a wider audience and is applied with appropriate facilities ( book shop, restaurant ) for larger numbers of visitors. The new construction and relocation was an agreed upon in a court decision based on compromise, which provided a reproduction of the interior of the building in Merion, including the hanging of the original works of art for the interiors. The end of May 2012 opened new building was applauded by the NZZ cultural correspondent. The film The Art of the Steal from the year 2010, however, criticized the move as a power takeover by the three rival Barnes billionaire families Annenberg, Lenfest and Pew.

Gallery

Pierre Auguste Renoir: Jeanne Durand Ruel

Claude Monet: Camille in knitting

Vincent van Gogh: The smoker

Paul Gauguin: Loulou

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec: Reclining Nude on a sofa

Henri Rousseau: Scouts attacked by a tiger

Amedeo Modigliani: Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne of the seated

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