Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art ( DMA) is an art museum in downtown Dallas, Texas. It is located in the so-called Art District along the Woodall Rogers Freeway, between the streets of St. Paul and Harwood. The architect Edward Larrabee Barnes designed the museum building opened in 1984.

The collection of the Museum of Art includes more than 24,000 objects, ranging from the time of the 3rd millennium BC to the present. The museum also offers educational programs and, with the Mildred R. and Frederick M. Mayer Library a specialized library with over 50,000 volumes.

History

The Dallas Museum of Art 's history began with the founding of the Art Committee ( Art Committee ) of the Dallas Public Library ( Public Library Dallas ). At the suggestion of the Texas artist Frank Reaugh first exhibition of works of art took place in a room of the library in 1902. For this exhibition, the committee acquired with the painting by Childe Hassam September Moonrise one of the first pieces for his own collection. The following year towards justified on a group of 50 art-loving citizens of Dallas, the Dallas Art Association. By 1909, this Art association had continued from the Dallas Public Library, before a first building of its own, the Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas, opened in Fair Park. 1929 drew the art collection temporarily into the Majestic Theatre. After the institution was renamed in 1933 in the name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts ( DMFA ), it could in 1936 a new building in Fair Park relate, which is now used by the Museum of Nature & Science.

In 1943 Jerry Bywaters the director of the DMFA, who held the position 21 years was. Under his leadership, the museum has collected impressionistic, abstract and contemporary masterpieces. In addition, he continued with works by Alexander Hogue, Hernan Olin Travis and other Texas artists a regional focus in the museum's collection. In 1963, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts (DMCA ). In 1984, renamed the Dallas Museum of Art and the opening of the present museum building, which was extended several times.

Collections

The museum's collections include more than 24,000 works of art from around the world. They date from antiquity to modern times.

• The DMA Collection Antique art includes Cycladic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Apulian objects. One of the highlights of the ancient Egyptian art is the painted limestone relief procession of the sacrificer from the tomb of Ny- Ank - Nesut, which was created 2757-2134 BC. The extensive Greek collection consists of the marble figure of a man from a funerary relief ( about 300 BC ), as well as bronze sculptures, decorative objects and gold jewelry. Roman art is represented by the figure of a woman ( 2nd century ) and a marble sarcophagus ( about 190 AD) with a battle scene.

• The collection of South Asian art ranges from Buddhist art of the 2nd and 4th century to the art of the Mughal Empire. Highlights include the bronze statue of Shiva Nataraja from the 12th century and a sandstone sculpture of the deity Vishnu as Varaha the eberköpfige ( 10th century ). Other artworks of this section come from Tibet, Nepal and Thailand.

• Examples of the collection of European art from the 16th century are a multi-colored wooden sculpture of St. Sebastian ( Danube School, ca 1520), and the painting St. Jerome in the wilderness area of Hendrik Bles, Ecce Homo by Giulio Cesare Procaccini and Bacchic Concert by Pietro Paolini. The art of the 18th century includes works by artists such as Canaletto ( A view from Fondamenta Nuova, 1772), Jean -Baptiste Marie Pierre (The Abduction of Europe, 1750) and Claude -Joseph Vernet ( Mountain landscape with Storm, 1775). The collection of 19th and 20th century shows works by Max Liebermann (Ins Pool, 1875-1877 ), Ferdinand Hodler ( The Halberdier, 1895), Gustave Courbet ( The Fox in the Snow, 1860), Constantin Brancusi (The Beginning of the World, 1920) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ( Four wooden figures, 1912). Piet Mondrian, the museum owns Windmill (1908 ), Self Portrait (1942 ) and Place de la Concorde ( 1938-1943 ).

• The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection is a donation from Wendy Reves in 1985 in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves. The collection dates back to the 1,400 m² large house of the couple in France, Villa La Pausa, who had previously inhabited by Coco Chanel. Some rooms in the house was rebuilt in the museum and now contain the original equipment with furniture, Chinese porcelain, Oriental rugs and other crafts, as well as the art collection of 1,400 paintings and sculptures. The Masseuse, by Edgar Degas ( 1896-1911 ) On display are works by Paul Cezanne, Honore Daumier, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh. In addition, personal mementos and letters from Winston Churchill are issued, with the Wendy and Emery Reves shared a long friendship.

• The extensive collection of African art include objects from West and Central Africa. They come mainly from the 16th to the 20th century. The oldest object is a Nok terracotta bust of Nigeria ( approximately between 200 BC and 200 AD). Some pieces are status symbols, others show symbols of life. The most valuable objects are a wooden table covered with a copper alloy with the image of a chief and a character from the Kingdom of Kongo, which is studded with nails or blades.

• Another focus of the museum's collection is the department of ancient American art. The collection spans more than three millennia, with terracotta sculptures and golden objects from Panama, Colombia, and Peru. Among the highlights of the collection belongs to the head of the deity Tlaloc (Mexico, 14-16. Century).

• The collection of American Art displays paintings, sculptures and prints from the United States, Mexico, and Canada. They date from the colonial period up to the Second World War. Some of the highlights are Duck Iceland (1906 ) by Childe Hassam, Lighthouse Hill ( 1927) by Edward Hopper, That Gentleman ( 1960) by Andrew Wyeth, Bare Tree Trunks with Snow by Georgia O'Keeffe, and Razor and Watch ( 1924-1925 ) by Gerald Murphy. In addition, the DMA works by Texas artists such as Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, Julian Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, David Bates, Dorothy Austin, Michael Owen and Olin Herman Travis has.

• In the Department of Contemporary Art are almost all the important artistic trends since 1945 is represented. These include Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Op Art, as well as works of Minimalism and Conceptualism to installations and video art. Contemporary artists in the collection include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Sigmar Polke, Josef Albers, Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson. The photographic collections include artists such as Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Thomas Struth and Lynn Davis. As today's Gebäudein the center was opened in 1980, the museum has acquired works by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Fleischner. In recent years, the museum has begun to collect the works of contemporary German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke.

Events

In 2008, the DMA Center for Creative Connections, the ( abbreviated to C3 ) opened. It is a center for interactive learning on 1,100 square meters and offers exhibits of the museum collections. There is also an artists' workshop, Arturo 's Nest, a theater and the High- Tech Lab.

The DMA provides the following events:

• Late Nights: Once a month the museum is open until midnight for concerts, performances, lectures, films, tours and family programs.
• Arts and Letters Live: A lecture series with famous authors, actors, illustrators and musicians.
• Jazz Under the Stars: a popular jazz concert series on the lawn outside the museum.
• Thursday Night Live: Every Thursday, the museum remains open to 21.00 clock. There are jazz concerts, dinner and drinks at the cafe as well as meetings with artists in the Center for Creative Connections.