Rosengart Collection Museum

The Rosengart Collection Museum (Museum Sammlung Rosengart) is an art museum located in Lucerne, Switzerland. It houses a collection of modern art based on two main artists: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.[1][2]

Rosengart Collection Museum
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Established2002
LocationLucerne, Switzerland
TypeModern art

Collection

The art dealer Siegfried Rosengart[3] (1894-1985), who worked in Munich with his uncle Heinrich Thannhauser before moving to Lucerne, had contacts with Picasso[4] and Marc Chagall.[5] With his daughter, Angela, he built a modern art collection containing works by Vassily Kandinsky,[6] Georges Braque, Chaïm Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, Fernand Léger, Georges Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Cézanne ou Claude Monet,[7] as well as Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Maurice Utrillo, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse ou encore Joan Miró.[5]

His Klee collection is the largest in private hands after that of the artist's family.[5][7] Some of his Picassos were exhibited at the musée Picasso de Lucerne opened in 1978 by the Rosengarts, to celebrate the 800th anniversairy of the city.[7][8]

His only daughter, Angela, founded the Fondation Rosengart in 1992.[5][9] The Rosengart Collection opened in March 2002 and received more than 100,000 visitors in the following twelve months.[10]

Building

The former neoclassical building of the Swiss National Bank, built in 1923-1924 by the Zurich architect Hermann Herter, is purchased and its conversion entrusted to the architect Roger Diener.[7][11] The art museum opened on March 26, 2002.[7]

The ground floor shows works by Picasso, the basement those by Klee, and the first floor other artists.[11] The former bank's conference room is preserved in its original state and open to visitors.[11]

References
  1. Agovino, Michael J. (2006-08-13). "Lucerne". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  2. Riding, Alan (2003-09-02). "On a Swiss Lake, a Father-Daughter Art Dream Lives". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  3. Peter Prange (2005), "Rosengart, Siegfried", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 67–68; (full text online)
  4. von., Kageneck, Christian (1988). Von Matisse bis Picasso : Hommage an Siegfried Rosengart ; Kunstmuseum Luzern (19.6. - 11.9.1988). OCLC 888266463.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. "A Lucerne, une collection de tableaux étourdissante". Télérama (in French). 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  6. "WRS | Article | ART SEEN - Rosengart Collection". 2020-08-04. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  7. "Un atout pour Lucerne: la Collection Rosengart s'ouvre au public". Le Temps (in French). 2002-03-26. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  8. "AM-RHYN-HAUS: Die Picasso-Bilder zügeln ins Rosengart". Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  9. "Musée Collection Rosengart". Lucerne Tourisme (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  10. "On a Swiss Lake, a Father-Daughter Art Dream Lives - New York Times". The New York Times. 2014-12-09. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  11. "The Rosengart Collection - Diener & Diener Architekten". www.dienerdiener.ch. Retrieved 2022-02-07.

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