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Mehrere Werke von Umberto Boccioni repräsentieren den Futurismus. 1525, Täbris, Kalligraphische Rosette, spätes 16. bis heute abdecken. 1461, von Jean Fouquet, Studien für die Sibylle aus Libyen, ca. 1887–1813 v. Chr. Die größte Abteilung widmet sich Europa, mit umfangreichen Gemäldesammlungen, Kunsthandwerk und Architekturfragmenten bis hin zu Musikinstrumenten und antiken Waffen sowie mittelalterlichen Rüstungen. Chr.) [22] The City of New York has reduced funding at the Metropolitan as part of Mayor De Blasio's political effort to increase artistic diversity. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes 1792 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art [10][20], Bedeutende Gemälde in der Sammlung französischer alter Meister stammen von Jean Clouet, Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Poussin, Georges de la Tour, François Boucher, Antoine Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard und Jacques-Louis David. Situated in a large room and partially surrounded by a reflecting pool and illuminated by a wall of windows opening onto Central Park, the Temple of Dendur has been one of the Met's most enduring attractions. [56] Today, its collection contains more than 35,000 costumes and accessories. [citation needed], Highlights of the collection include the monumental Amathus sarcophagus and a magnificently detailed Etruscan chariot known as the "Monteleone chariot". The Charles Engelhard Court of the American Wing features the facade of the Branch Bank of the United States, a Wall Street bank that was facing demolition in 1913. Zu den bedeutendsten hiervon zählen das Elfenbeinkreuz aus der Abtei von Bury Saint Edmunds (England, 12. Cubiculum mit Fresken aus der Villa Boscoreale, ca. The garden's cafe and bar is a popular museum spot during the mild-weathered months, especially on Friday and Saturday evenings when large crowds can lead to long lines at the elevators. [29], Die Sammlung im Hauptgebäude deckt mit mehr als 6000 Objekten den gesamten Zeitraum des europäischen Mittelalters ab. Before then, the works of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas were considered art of the "primitives" or ethnographic objects. The roof garden offers views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. 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Gerald Cantor Roof Garden", "NHL nomination for Metropolitan Museum of Art", "Ken Sunshine Joins the Met's Board of Trustees", "Metropolitan Museum of Art Names New President: Daniel Weiss", "Met Announces Patricia Marroquin Norby as First Full-Time Curator of Native American Art", "NYC art museum accused of duping visitors on admission fees", "Moody's assigns Aaa to Metropolitan Museum of Art's (NY) $250M Series 2015 bonds; outlook stable", "Artists Protest Sackler Family Through Museums That Bear Their Name", "Met Execs Got Hefty Bonuses Amid-Rising Deficit", "A Hushed Departure at the Met Museum Reveals Entrenched Management Culture", "With Rumors, Scandal, and a Record Budget Shortfall, What Broke the Met? Dadurch sind die Künstler aus dem Umfeld von ’’Galerie 291’’ von Stieglitz und der Zeitschrift ’’Camera Work’’ umfangreich vertreten, insbesondere Edward Steichen (darunter drei Abzüge von ’’The Flatiron’’ in unterschiedlichen Farbtönen), aber auch F. Holland Day, Adolphe de Meyer, Gertrude Käsebier, Paul Strand und Clarence Hudson White. Zeitlich erstreckt sie sich von der Gründung des Islams 622 n. Chr. [7][27], Bei den Gemälden ist ein Schwerpunkt frühe italienische Malerei, vor allem aus Siena und Florenz (u. a. Werke von Ugolino di Nerio, Simone Martini, Giovanni di Paolo, dem Meister der Osservanza und Sandro Botticelli), ein anderer altniederländische Malerei (u. a. Werke von Petrus Christus, Hans Memling und Jean Hey). From a few cuneiform tablets and seals, the Met's collection of Near Eastern art has grown to more than 7,000 pieces. [76], The Met's collection of musical instruments, with about 5,000 examples of musical instruments from all over the world, is virtually unique among major museums. [26], Though the Met first acquired a group of Peruvian antiquities in 1882, the museum did not begin a concerted effort to collect works from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas until 1969, when American businessman and philanthropist Nelson A. Rockefeller donated his more than 3,000-piece collection to the museum. In addition to its outstanding collections of English and French furniture, visitors can enter dozens of completely furnished period rooms, transplanted in their entirety into the Met's galleries. Alfred Stieglitz, a famous photographer himself, donated the first major collection of photographs to the museum, which included a comprehensive survey of Photo-Secessionist works, a rich set of master prints by Edward Steichen, and an outstanding collection of Stieglitz's photographs from his own studio. [8] Die dazu genutzten Räume befinden sich im Tiefgeschoss des Museums. Sie umfasst über 20.000 Arbeiten vorrangig aus Europa und Nordamerika, aber auch andere Gebiete der Erde sind vertreten, etwa Japan. März 2016 wurde mit dem Met Breuer ein neuer Veranstaltungsort eröffnet. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. Grabstele eines kleinen Mädchens, aus Paros, ca. During what is just the dawn of this new initiative, the responses so far have been incredible. Jahrhundert. "Metropolitan Museum of Art Names Lauren A. Meserve Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer", BY Alex Greenberger, Artnews Journal, October 18, 2017. Nach fünf Jahren Lobbyarbeit bei Geschäftsleuten, Bankiers sowie Künstlern und Intellektuellen konnte 1870 das erste Gebäude des Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bezogen werden. Zeitlicher Endpunkt dieser Abteilung ist, den Konventionen des 19. Jahrhundert. [75] The Met has since added to the collection, for example spending $31.8 million for Gris' The musician's table in 2018. Heute umfasst die Abteilung im Bereich griechischer Kunst Werke aus dem antiken Griechenland, aus Zypern und dem griechisch beeinflussten Kleinasien sowie aus den damaligen griechischen Kolonien am Mittelmeer und am schwarzen Meer; hinzu kommen Objekte der noch früheren Kulturen auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Griechenlands (z. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Mrs. Nicholas Cruger Mansion also known as the Douglas Mansion (James Renwick, 1853–54, demolished 1928) at 128 West 14th Street. [139] The search for a new director and CEO for the museum was announced on February 28, 2017, and assigned to be conducted by the human resources firm Phillips Oppenheim following the departure of Thomas Campbell as the Met's director and previous CEO on June 30, 2017. The centennial's events (including an open house, Centennial Ball, year-long art history course for the public, and various educational programming and traveling exhibitions) and publications drew on support from prominent New Yorkers, artists, writers, composers, interior designers, and art historians. The main gallery, with its high arched ceiling, also serves double duty as the annual site of the Met's elaborately decorated Christmas tree. [47] The Greek and Roman collection dates back to the founding of the museum—in fact, the museum's first accessioned object was a Roman sarcophagus, still currently on display. Das Metropolitan Museum of Art ist das größte Kunstmuseum der Vereinigten Staaten und besitzt eine der bedeutendsten kunsthistorischen Sammlungen der Welt. Ein Schwerpunkt der Sammlung sind Miniaturen aus Persien und dem Mogulreich in Indien, darunter solche aus einer reich geschmückten, für Schah Tahmasp (1514–1576) angefertigten Handschrift des Schāhnāme. [114] The architectural sculpture on the facade is by Karl Bitter. 02 Min Read . Zwar wurden im Metropolitan-Museum bereits seit 1882 einige solcher Objekte gesammelt, aber der entscheidende Anstoß zu einer gleichberechtigten Präsentation neben der europäischen oder asiatischen Kunst fand 1969 statt: Nelson A. Rockefeller bot seine persönliche Sammlung außereuropäischer Kunst, die bis dahin den Grundstock des von ihm gegründeten Museum of Primitive Art bildete, dem Metropolitan Museum als Schenkung an. The Fifth Avenue building opened on February 20, 1872, at 681 Fifth Avenue. Es wurde am 13. Located in Fort Tryon Park and completed in 1938, it is a separate building dedicated solely to medieval art. [14] Dabei wurden die gezeigten Objekte bewusst als Kunstwerke aufgefasst, also nicht lediglich als Dokumente ihrer jeweiligen Kultur, und sie wurden in ihrer Bewertung innerhalb des Metropolitan-Museums mit der westlichen Kunst gleichgestellt. [117][118] The museum building is an accretion of over 20 structures, most of which are not visible from the exterior. The program was directed, from its inception to 1968, by William Kolodney, and from 1969 to 2010, by Hilde Limondjian. [149], In April 2017, The New York Times reported that the Met's annual debt was approaching $40 million, in addition to an outstanding museum bond for $250 million. The modern Musical Instruments collection is encyclopedic in scope; every continent is represented at virtually every stage of its musical life. Dadurch sind auch Musikinstrumente aus nicht-westlichen Ländern umfangreich vertreten, darunter zahlreiche aus kostbaren Materialien. Each Department maintains a library, most of the material of which can be requested online through the libraries' catalog. Howe, Winifred E., and Henry Watson Kent (2009). Note: Visitor numbers are estimates only. Nach einem Bankett in einem Pariser Restaurant anlässlich des amerikanischen Nationalfeiertags am 4. 1175–1200), Les Belles Heures (ein von den Brüdern von Limburg für Jean de Berry reichverziertes Stundenbuch), eine Folge von Wandteppichen mit Szenen der Jagd auf das Einhorn (ca. Fit snugly against the sides of the face. The oldest items at the Met, a set of Archeulian flints from Deir el-Bahri which date from the Lower Paleolithic period (between 300,000 and 75,000 BC), are part of the Egyptian collection. [35] However, not only "art" and ritual objects are represented in the collection; many of the best-known pieces are functional objects. [66] Though the Met had always sold duplicate or minor items from its collection to fund the acquisition of new pieces, the Met's new policy was significantly more aggressive and wide-ranging than before, and allowed the deaccessioning of items with higher values which would normally have precluded their sale. [7][13], Ausstellungsraum mit ozeanischen Kunstwerken. [7][17] Da diese Arbeiten auf Papier lichtempfindlich sind und deshalb nicht dauerhaft ausgestellt werden können, zeigt die Abteilung in einem dafür eingerichteten Ausstellungsraum wechselnde Querschnitte durch die eigene Sammlung. [79], On March 18, 2016, the museum opened a new venue in the Marcel Breuer-designed building at Madison Avenue and 75th Street in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the former Whitney Museum of American Art. [23] In April 2018, Max Hollein was named director. You will not be permitted inside the Museum without a face covering. The museum defended its decision to portray Harlem itself as a work of art. Jahrhundert und ist damit eine der umfangreichsten überhaupt. The first Chief Digital Officer Sree Sreenivasan from 2013 departed in 2016 and was replaced by Loic Tallon at the time that the department became known by its simplified designation as the Digital Department. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum along Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program. Der sogenannte Sarpedon-Krater des Euphronios, eine der bedeutendsten antiken Vasen überhaupt, die im italienischen Cerveteri illegal ausgegraben worden war, befand sich seit 1972 im Besitz des Metropolitan Museum. A red-brick and stone "mausoleum" was designed by American architect Calvert Vaux and his collaborator Jacob Wrey Mould. [70] The collection features items of outstanding beauty and historical importance; including the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry illustrated by the Limbourg Brothers in 1409,[71] the Romanesque altar cross known as the "Cloisters Cross" or "Bury Cross",[72] and the seven tapestries depicting the Hunt of the Unicorn. Effective March 2018, most visitors who do not live in New York state or are not a student from New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut have to pay $25 to enter the museum. [14][20][21], Einige der in der italienischen Sammlung vertretenen Künstler sind Giotto, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini, Andrea Mantegna, Sassetta, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, Tizian, Raffael, Bronzino, Lorenzo Lotto, Veronese, Caravaggio und Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The City of New York owns the museum building and contributes utilities, heat, and some of the cost of guardianship. Highlights of the department's collection include several Stradivari violins, a collection of Asian instruments made from precious metals, and the oldest surviving piano, a 1720 model by Bartolomeo Cristofori. Anmelden. Die Sammlung asiatischer Kunst gehört mit über 35.000 Objekten zu den größten und umfassendsten der USA, sie zeigt Kunstwerke sämtlicher Kulturregionen Asiens (China, Japan, Korea, Südasien, Südostasien, Himalaya) und deckt den Zeitraum vom 4. [146], In 2019, museum President Daniel Weiss announced that the institution would review its policy for receiving financial donations, under pressure from activist group P.A.I.N. Every known Asian civilization is represented in the Met's Asian department, and the pieces on display include every type of decorative art, from painting and printmaking to sculpture and metalworking. [105] After his death in 1969, the Robert Lehman Foundation donated close to 3,000 works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [citation needed], Though other departments contain significant numbers of drawings and prints, the Drawings and Prints department specifically concentrates on North American pieces and western European works produced after the Middle Ages. Three ancient religions of India – Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism – are well represented in these sculptures. 1473–1458 v. Chr. B. mit Werken von Louis Comfort Tiffany) sowie das von Frank Lloyd Wright gestaltete Wohnzimmer des Sommerhauses für Frances W. Little (Little House). Although the museum has three sites, the centerpiece is The Met Fifth Avenue. [148] According to the Met's annual tax filing for fiscal year 2016, several top executives had received disproportionately high compensation, often exceeding $1 million per annum with over $100,000 bonuses per annum. The collection even includes an entire 16th-century patio from the Spanish castle of Vélez Blanco, reconstructed in a two-story gallery, and the intarsia studiolo from the ducal palace at Gubbio. [57] The Costume Institute used to have a permanent gallery space in what was known as the "Basement" area of the Met because it was downstairs at the bottom of the Met facility. [100] However, these new accommodations proved temporary, as the growing collection required more space than the mansion could provide. 1510–1511, von Michelangelo, Versuchung des heiligen Antonius, ca. | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art", "How Art Collected by a Long-Lost Rockefeller Changed the Met Museum Forever", "The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas", "Metropolitan Museum of Art to Renovate Its Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Galleries", "The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Asian Art", "Meet the Staff | The Metropolitan Museum of Art", "The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Egyptian Art". Kevin Roche has been the architect for the master plan and expansion of the museum for the past 42 years. Among the collection's 14,000 objects[54] are many pieces made for and used by kings and princes, including armor belonging to Henry VIII of England, Henry II of France, and Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. Ein Ruhepunkt für den Besucher ist der von Brooke Astor initiierte Astor-Hof, ein im Stil der Ming-Dynastie gestalteter Innenhof. [27] In 1968, the Met had agreed to a temporary exhibition of Rockefeller's work. 1897–1797 v. Neuassyrisches Relief aus Nimrud, 883–859 v. Chr. [29], Today, the Met's collection contains more than 11,000 pieces from sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas and is housed in the 40,000-square-foot (4,000 m2) Rockefeller Wing on the south end of the museum. "[95] This legislation was supplemented later by the 1893 Act, Chapter 476, which required that its collections "shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year. Audio Guide. [82][83][84], The Met has an extensive archive consisting of 1,500 films made and collected by the museum since the 1920s. So gehört die jährliche Benefiz-Gala zu den Fixpunkten im Jahresablauf der New Yorker High Society und diente z. [9] Die Abteilung ist gemeinsam mit jener für amerikanische Malerei und Plastik im American Wing (amerikanischer Flügel) untergebracht und verfügt dabei über 25 Period Rooms, Zimmer mit kompletter Raumausstattung jeweils einer konkreten Epoche. [94], The New York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of Incorporation on April 13, 1870, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations. [8] und Schmuck der Prinzessin Sithathoriunet (ca. [137], The list of elective trustees of the Met for 2016–2017 included Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Bonnie B. Himmelman, and Andrew Solomon. [52], The Met's Department of Arms and Armor is one of the museum's most popular collections. [67] Princeton University Press has documented the massive collection in a multi-volume book series published as The Robert Lehman Collection Catalogues. Like the Islamic collection, the Medieval collection contains a broad range of two- and three-dimensional art, with religious objects heavily represented. [155] Forty percent of the Met's visitors in fiscal year 2016 came from New York City and the tristate area; 41 percent from 190 countries besides the United States. Zeitlich schließen sich daran französische Gemälde aus dem 19. und frühen 20. [7][32], Zu den herausragenden Werken der französischen klassischen Moderne zählen solche von z. [61] bis ins frühe 20. Zuvor war hier von 1966 bis 2014 das Whitney Museum of American Art, das in einen von Renzo Piano konzipierten Neubau nach Downtown übersiedelte. "What Broke the Met? [7][23] Diese sind Skulpturen, Möbel und andere Holzarbeiten, Keramik, Glas, Metallarbeiten, Schmuck, Uhren und wissenschaftliche Geräte sowie Tapisserien und andere Textilien. ): „Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas“, https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art&oldid=206101335, Archäologische Sammlung in den Vereinigten Staaten, Denkmal im National Register of Historic Places (New York), „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“. 1180–1210, Seite aus dem Schāhnāme des Schah Tahmasp, ca. 1855, der den Stil des Rokoko imitiert, Herbstlandschaft, 1923, von den Tiffany Studios, Ausschnitt der Stickerei auf einem Sessel aus Newport, 1758, Die im American Wing gezeigte Sammlung umfasst über 4000 Werke amerikanischer Kunst (Gemälde, Skulpturen und Arbeiten auf Papier) vom späten 18. bis ins frühe 20. [159], The Metropolitan Museum of Art spent $39 million to acquire art for the fiscal year ending in June 2012. The Library is accessible to anyone 18 years of age or older simply by registering online and providing a valid photo ID. [147], In September 2016, the Wall Street Journal first reported financial set-backs at the museum related to servicing its outstanding debts and associated cut-backs in staffing at the museum, with the goal of trying to balance its budget by fiscal year 2018. [74] Due to the Met's long history, "contemporary" paintings acquired in years past have often migrated to other collections at the museum, particularly to the American and European Paintings departments. [80] It extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program. [93] Norman Lewis, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Clifford Joseph, Roy DeCarava, Reginald Gammon, Henri Ghent, Raymond Saunders, and Alice Neel were among the artists who picketed the show. europäischen Kunst des 19. 750–735 v. Chr. Schevill, Ferdinand, 'Karl Bitter: A Biography", The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1917 p. ix, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1995).