Fogg Museum

The Fogg Art Museum is an art museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Opened in 1895, the Museum is the oldest of Harvard University. The collection of the Fogg Art Museum includes European art from the Middle Ages to the present. Since 2008, the museum is closed because of a reconstruction;, designed by Renzo Piano it is redesigned, it can show the population of the three art museums of the University.

History

The Fogg Art Museum was founded in 1895 as the first art museum in the Harvard University opened, which used it in the episode as a study collection. It was housed in a 1893-1895 according to plans of Richard Morris Hunt built in Italian Renaissance style building. This building was demolished and replaced by a new, inspired by the architectural firm Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott in the style of Georgian architecture. It was opened to the public in 1925.

Collection

The collection of the Fogg Art Museum includes works of art from the Middle Ages to the present. It contains only 60,000 prints by artists such as Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rembrandt van Rijn, Honoré Daumier, Albrecht Dürer, James McNeill Whistler, Kara Walker and the artist of German Expressionism. In addition, the museum has 13,000 drawings, including Michelangelo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Rembrandt van Rijn, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Nicolas Poussin, Francisco de Goya, Eugene Delacroix and Picasso.

The Department of American painting, sculpture and decorative arts was established only in 2002 and covers 3,000 works of art. The colonial painting is by important works by John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart. From the 19th century artist John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler are well represented in the museum's collection. It also includes important works by Charles Willson Peale, William M. Harnett, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer. Visitors can also see works of neoclassical sculpture by Randolph Rogers and Edmonia Lewis, as well as later sculptures by Daniel Chester French and Augustus Saint Gaudens. The significant silver collection includes colonial works of John Coney of Boston and Myer Myers, just like working the Arts and Crafts movement. The Department of American Art is also home to 1500 portraits and busts from the 17th century to the present.

Lower Chapel of St. Salvator Schwäbisch Gmünd by Christoph Friedel

Nocturne in Gray and Gold, Snow In Chelsea by James McNeill Whistler

Family portrait of Isaac Royall of Robert Feke

In the Department of European art 1100 paintings, 1400 sculptures and 2100 works of decorative art are performed. The collection of European paintings is one of the best university collections of its kind in the United States. The focus is on works of the Italian Renaissance, Dutch Baroque painting and the French and British painting of the 19th century. The sculpture collection includes works by artists such as Auguste Rodin and Antoine -Louis Barye, as well as a significant group of Roman terracotta studies from the 17th century, among other things, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The decorative style is represented, among others silver objects from the British Isles and Wedgwood ceramics.

Figures assises by Georges Seurat

Poèmes barbares by Paul Gauguin

Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh

Special

The Fogg Art Museum presents special exhibitions on various subjects. They deal with art genres, art forms and regions, as well as the work of individual artists. Examples include Paintings by Max Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich in 2007, and The Western tradition. Art since the Renaissance from 2008 The 2006-2008 current exhibition Modern Art, 1865-1965 focusing instead on a specific section of art history. Besides exhibitions were shown which deal with the non- Asian in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum Art. For example, A Compelling Legacy: Masterworks of East Asian painting from the years 2004/2005 and various exhibitions on Asian sculptures.