Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The most famous Stedelijk Museum ( Dutch for Municipal Museum ) is an art museum in Amsterdam Paulus Potterstraat the district Oud -Zuid in the city of Amsterdam Zuid. In the immediate vicinity you will find the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. Its architect is A.W. Weisman.

History

1895-2008

The Municipal Museum was founded in 1895 as a city history museum for the estate of the widow of Jewish art and antiques collector Pieter Lopez Suasso. In its buildings in the style of Neo - Renaissance that first showed furniture, coins, silverware, jewelry, and home furnishings from old Amsterdam houses. In addition, a collection of weapons, as well as an old pharmacy equipment could be visited.

Between 1920 and 1940 began to shift parts of the collections in other museums. At the same time, a collection of contemporary Dutch and French art. From 1930 to the museum housed the large Van Gogh collection, the next moved to a museum in 1972. Only in the early 1970s, the last historical home furnishings were spun and the Museum has established itself as Amsterdam's premier destination for modern art.

Among the directors Edy de Wilde and Rudi Fuchs an international focus of the collection and the exhibitions took place. In 2003, the historic museum building had to be closed because of fire regulations. Parts of the collection ( Art 1968 ) were east of the main railway station Amsterdam Centraal to see CS- buildings still in the now-demolished post until September 2008.

Closure and remodeling 2008-2012

The Stedelijk Museum has been rebuilt to a design by Benthem Crouwel Architects. In the meantime, the museum organized exhibitions and other activities at various locations within Amsterdam. Thus, the exhibition Temporary Stedelijk 2 was opened in the renovated, but not yet completed the historical part of the building on March 3, 2011. Following the bankruptcy of the construction company responsible for the conversion Midreth the reconstruction delayed further. The construction of the at least 4.5 million euros increasingly expensive project rested since February 2011. Late March, 2011, the City of Amsterdam, the takeover of the project by the construction company Volker Wessels known. The official re-opening of the museum was held by the Dutch Queen Beatrix on 22 September 2012.

Collection

All the major currents of modern art are represented exemplarily at the Stedelijk Museum. You can see alongside artists of classical modernism ( Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall ), extensive groups of artists communities De Stijl ( Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld ) and CoBrA and in the Cobra Museum. Kasimir Malevich is represented by 29 frames and there are collections of German Expressionism, American Pop Art, video artists ( Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman ), Arte Povera, contemporary Germans ( Reinhard Mucha, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Markus Liipertz, AR Penck ) and current British art ( Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst ).

Awards

The Stedelijk Museum in 2009 was awarded the first ever Turing Award, which is endowed with 450,000 euros. The museum was awarded the prize for the concept of an exhibition ( designed and curated by Eva Meyer- Hermann) by the American artist Mike Kelley, to be presented as a retrospective after the reopening. The Turing Award is named after the British mathematician Alan Turing and was donated by a Dutch entrepreneur.