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MusÃ©e des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace Regions of France in northeastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the Aire urbaine....
, located in the Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
region of France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. The museum is housed in the first and second floors of the baroque Palais Rohan

Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

The Palais Rohan is one of the most important buildings in the city of Strasbourg in Alsace, France. It represents not only the high point of local baroque architecture, according to widespread opinion among art historians, but has also housed three of the most important museums in the city since the end of the 19th century: the Archaeol...
since 1898. The museum displays works by non-Upper Rhenish

Upper Rhine

The Upper Rhine is the part of the Rhine that flows northbound after Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine rift, and then westward to Bingen am Rhein, Germany....
painters from the 14th century until 1871 and by Upper Rhenish artist from between 1681 and 1871. The museum owns 850 works (as of 2006), of which 250 are on permanent display.

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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Alsace

France

Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

Upper Rhine

Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame

The Mus?e de l??uvre Notre-Dame is the city of Strasbourg's museum for Upper Rhine fine and decorative arts from the early Middle Ages until 1681....
.

Historical overview

The first municipal art collection of the city of Strasbourg was the result of the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
, and was a consequence of the expropriation of churches and cloisters. Through the years, the collection, which was founded in 1801, grew by private donations, as well as government loans from the inventory of the Louvre

Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
. On August 24 1870, the museum, which was housed in the Aubette on Place Kléber

Place Kléber

The Place Kl?ber is the central square of Strasbourg, France.Place Kleber, the largest square at the center of the city of Strasbourg in the heart of the city's commercial area, was named after general Jean-Baptiste Kl?ber, born in Strasbourg in 1753....
, was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire and completely destroyed. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War

Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between Second French Empire and Kingdom of Prussia, while Prussia was backed by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Grand Duchy of Baden, History of W?rttemberg#The Kingdom...
, it was resolved to re-establish the museum, and the imperial art historian Wilhelm von Bode

Wilhelm von Bode

Wilhelm von Bode was a Germany art history and curator. Born Arnold William Bode in Calv?rde, he was German nobility in 1914. He was the creator and first curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, now called the Bode Museum in his honor, in 1904....
was commissioned with the task in 1889. In 1890, the museum was launched and was re-stocked since that time by acquisitions and gifts. In 1931 under the leadership of Hans Haug (1890-1965), the collection of medieval art and upper-Rhenish painting (Konrad Witz

Konrad Witz

Konrad Witz was a German painter, active mainly in Basel, Switzerland.Witz is most famous for painting three altarpieces, all of which survive only partially....
, Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Gr?n . Germany Renaissance artist as Painting and printmaker in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht D?rer....
, Sebastian Stoskopff

Sebastian Stoskopff

Sebastian Stoskopff was an Alsace painter. He is considered one of the most important Germany still life painters of his time. His works, which were rediscovered after 1930, portray goblets, cups and especially glasses....
) was transferred to the newly-founded Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame

Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame

The Mus?e de l??uvre Notre-Dame is the city of Strasbourg's museum for Upper Rhine fine and decorative arts from the early Middle Ages until 1681....
. The collection of modern art went to the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg

Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

The Mus?e d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg is an art museum in Strasbourg, France, which was founded in 1973 and opened in its own building in November 1998....
(Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg).

On August 13 1947, fire destroyed part of the re-established collection, including works of Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Italy painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
, Jan Steen

Jan Steen

Jan Havickszoon Steen was a The Netherlands Genre works Painting of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade....
, Antonio del Pollaiolo and Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a Germany Painting and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father....
. However with the money from the insurance, it was possible to acquire other artistically valuable pictures. The collection of the museum has also regularly been expanded by donations (and still is) notably in 1987 and 1994 by collectors Othon Kaufman and François Schlageter (Italian paintings) and in 2004 by collectors Roger and Elisabeth Eisenbeth (Dutch paintings).

Painters exhibited (selected)

Italian

Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an italy Painting and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance....

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello was an Italy Painting of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ....

Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli was an Italy Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his career mostly in the Marche, where he absorbed early influences from the Vivarini, Francesco Squarcione and Mantegna into a distinctive personal style that makes a contrast to his Venetian contemporary Giovanni Bellini....

Piero di Cosimo

Piero di Cosimo was an Italy Renaissance Painting....

Cima da Conegliano

Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano was an Italy Renaissance painter....

Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....

Correggio

Veronese

Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi....

Tintoretto

Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art....

Guercino

Canaletto

Giovanni Antonio Canal , better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching....

Salvator Rosa

Salvatore Rosa was an Italy Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romanticism....

Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco also known as il Lissandrino , was an Italy Rococo Painting from Northern Italy. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric Genre works or Landscape art scenes....

Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Giuseppe Crespi

]]Giuseppe Maria Crespi , nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo was an Italy late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School . His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most famous for his Genre workss....

Flemish and Dutch

Hans Memling

Hans Memling was an Early Netherlandish painting, born in Seligenstadt/Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation....

Gerard David

Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color....

Maarten van Heemskerck

Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen

Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen or Maarten van Heemskerck , was one of the leading Netherlands portrait and religious painters of the sixteenth century, famous for his depictions of the Seven Wonders of the World....

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....

Jacob Jordaens

Jacob Jordaens , was one of three Flemish Baroque painting, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting....

Salomon van Ruysdael

Pieter de Hooch

Pieter de Hooch was a Genre works during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a contemporary of Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, with whom his work shared themes and style....

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque painting who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English school of painting for the next 150 years....

Spanish

El Greco

El Greco was a painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek alphabet, ????????? Te?t???p????? ....

Jusepe de Ribera

Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbar?n was a Spain Painting. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes....

Francisco de Goya

French

Philippe de Champaigne

Philippe de Champaigne was a Baroque era painter of the French art.Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouqui?res....

Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain was an artist of the Baroque Painting era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting....

Nicolas de Largillière

Nicolas de Largilli?re , France Painting, was born in Paris.His father, a merchant, took him to Antwerp at the age of three. As a boy, he spent nearly two years in London....

François Boucher

Fran?ois Boucher was a France Painting, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture....

Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet was a France painter and draftsman, who helped introduce the Italian Baroque style to France.A French contemporary, lacking the term "Baroque", said, "In his time the art of painting began to be practiced here in a nobler and more beautiful way than ever before," and the allegory of "Riches" demonstrates a new heroic sen...

Antoine Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau was a France Painting whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement , and revitalized the waning Baroque idiom, which eventually became known as Rococo....

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Philip James de Loutherbourg, also seen as Philippe-Jacques and Philipp Jakob and with the appellation the Younger was an England artist of France origin....

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Théodore Chassériau

File:MacbethAndBanquo-Witches.jpgTh?odore Chass?riau was a France romanticism Painting noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalism images inspired by his travels to Algeria....

Gustave Courbet

Jean D?sir? Gustave Courbet was a France Painting who led the realism movement in 19th-century French painting....

Théodore Rousseau

Pierre ?tienne Th?odore Rousseau , France Painting of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family which included one or two artists....

Bibliography

Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg - Cinq siècles de peinture, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, May 2006, ISBN 2-901833-78-0 in French
Peintures flamandes et hollandaises du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, February 2009, ISBN 978-2-35125-030-3
Les Peintures italiennes du Musée des Beaux-Arts, xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles, Éditions Le Seuil, 1996, ISBN 978-2-901833-30-7
Les Primitifs italiens, Éditions Le Seuil, 1993, ISBN 978-2-901833-14-7

MusÃ©e des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

Historical overview

Painters exhibited (selected)

Italian

Flemish and Dutch

Spanish

French

Bibliography

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