Fundació Joan Miró

The Fundació Joan Miró (Spanish: Fundación Joan Miró ) is a Joan Miró museum dedicated to modern art in the Catalan capital of Barcelona.

The museum building is located at the foot of Montjuïc, near the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. It includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, stage designs and carpets Joan Miró, from early drawings from 1901 to the late large-scale paintings. On the roof terrace of the house of the artist's sculptures are presented. In addition, to see regularly changing exhibitions of contemporary art.

Through the series of events Nits de música (, Nights of Music ' ), the Fundació Joan Miró from June to September to a center for classical music. For every Thursday held concerts occur on artist from all over the world.

The idea for a Miró Foundation is a childhood friend of the artist back: Joan Prats (not to be confused with an eponymous gallery on La Rambla ) increased with an extensive donation the foundation for today's collection. Miró spent the most important years of his youth in his native city of Barcelona. Although he lived most of the time in Palma de Mallorca, Paris and Mont- Roig del Camp, he always remained confident Catalan and retained until 1956 a studio in his parents' apartment in Barcelona. Other works of the artist can be found in public spaces of Barcelona. Another foundation can be found in Cala Major, a suburb of Palma de Mallorca; due to a donation by the artist there the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca was founded in 1981.

Building

The idea for the museum goes back to Miró himself. The building was founded in 1975 by a friend of Miró, the architect Josep Lluís Sert ( 1909-1983 ), a disciple of Le Corbusier completed. Decorated in crisp, white, cubic forms and Mediterranean-style house was extended in 1986 and 2000. From the American Institute of Architects, the building of the Twenty -five Year Award was awarded in 2002.