Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts (Tel-Aviv Musem of Art) is the largest art museum in Israel. The Museum's collections include rich collections of contemporary and vintage works foreign and Israeli artists.
The museum was opened in 1932 in the home of the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff, but in 1971 it moved to a new location at 27 Shaul HaMelech Street (27 King Saul Street). Today, the museum's collections are located in two main buildings, interconnected by several passages, as well as a separate sculpture park. At the entrance you can take a map in Russian or English language, in which it is drawn in detail and signed in which of the pavilions which collection is located. Here, for an additional (small) fee, you can take an audio guide, including in Russian. It is noteworthy that each pavilion of the museum bears the name, or rather the surname, of a philanthropist who supports his activities and donated paintings from his personal collection for the collection. This is a new, "private" philanthropic approach to the device major museum allowing the general public to enjoy a variety of works of art.
The exposition presents the most important areas of art of the 1st half of the 20th century: french impressionism and post-impressionism, German expressionism, Russian constructivism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, surrealism. Works by Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Alexander Archipenko, Wassily Kandinsky, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, as well as Flemish and Italian masters- from Rubens to Conoletto, the most famous impressionists - Matisse, Braque, Mondrian, Miro, and others. The Museum houses paintings by Pablo Picasso different periods– it’s hard to even imagine that these canvases belong to the brush of one artist. In 1950, the museum received 36 paintings from the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim, including works by J. Pollock, W. Baziotis, R. Pousette-Dart, I. Tanguy, R. Matta and A. Masson.
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has the most comprehensive collection of works by artists, sculptors and photographers. If you want to see if Israeli art exists and what it looks like, you are welcome. An entire floor of the museum, divided into 3 time periods, up to today, given under the work of Israeli masters. There are pictures and various groups objects united by a single theme, and sculptures, including moving ones, and video and photo installations, and everything that “is rich and joyful” in contemporary art, which is still very young and, of course, controversial. Some objects, by the way, are very ironic: this is a Roman washbasin with a canister from under the “cooler” installed on top, the painting “Free Entry for Soldiers in Uniform”, in which soldiers with very spiritual faces stand around a frankly indecent sculpture, and parodies of famous paintings.
Approximately one third of the museum's pavilions operate in the format of constantly changing temporary exhibitions. You have a list temporary exhibitions for September-October 2012(information from the official brochure of the Museum, translated from English):
— Asaf Shaham: New Ways to Steal Our Souls (Israeli Photographers Photography Award). Shaham destroys complex basic toolkit contemporary photography, comparing the concept of creating the first photos with digital effects, and exposing their clumsiness.
— Friedrich Adler: Paths and nooks and crannies. The first exhibition in Israel by Friedrich Adler, a member of the German Craft Alliance, who believed in the power of art to influence society and religious domination.
— Collisions in the space of Heinrich Münch. The exhibition re-introduces famous paintings, associating, intertwining and pushing them against each other through modern look Heinrich Munch.
— All his sons: the Brueghel dynasty. Four generations of the Brueghel family lived and worked in Flanders from the middle of the 16th century until early XVIII century. The founder of the dynasty was Pieter Brueghel the Elder, but the exhibition - about 100 paintings, drawings and prints - focuses on the lives of his sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and sons-in-law in a natural setting of snow-covered villages, farms, forests, flowers, butterflies and tiny insects.
— Critical mass contemporary art from India. The exhibition presents paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations by seventeen established and emerging artists from India. All works are devoted to the socio-political reality in India, full of upheavals of the last two decades.
— Yitzhak Patkin: Wandering Veils. A series of drawings, done in soft pastel colors on huge translucent curtains, was born from Yitzhak Patkin's interaction with the exiled Kashmiri poet Agha Shayid Ali (1949-2001). The core of Patkin's works are the themes of multinationality, political independence, a mixture of high and low culture, covered with theatrical veils.
— Asaf Ben Zvi: Forgetting everything(Prize named after Rappaport among recognized Israeli artists, 2011)
— Orit Akta Hildesheim: In Vikoli(Chaim Schiff Prize for Figurative Realistic Art, 2011)
— Shirley Bar-Amotz: Happy Days(Andrea M. Bronfman Prize, 2012)
— Five Moments: Trajectories in the architecture of the Tel Aviv Museum. At the center of this experimental exhibition is the architecture of the museum building over the years, from the Dizengoff building on Rothschild Boulevard to the Hertha and Paul Amir building. Five key moments in the history of the museum are presented through five architectural prisms.
— Making room: contemporary Israeli photography.
— Where the cypresses grow. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Professor Mordechai Omer, 1941-2011.
This fall to permanent exhibition museum also added several permanent exhibitions:
— Irises and daffodils, dragonflies and butterflies: Emile Gall's glassware;
— David Clerbut: The Time That Remains(video projection);
— Album "Mr. Wolf"(series of drawings).
On the territory of the complex in which the Museum is located, there are the Central Tel Aviv Library, several art galleries, as well as audiences in which music concerts and lectures on art history topics.
You can safely go to the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts for the whole day. Near the sculpture park on the territory of the museum there is a pleasant place where you can have lunch or drink coffee and take a break from the abundance of impressions, and then continue the tour. It will take at least 4 hours to visit all the pavilions at a speed slightly lower than the standard tourist run through the rooms of the museum. If you feel like taking a more substantial lunch break, there is a popular Italian restaurant within walking distance. toto(4 Berkovich st.), and in the building at Weizman st., 2 there are two kosher restaurants at once: a meat meatos and dairy Uno.
The Museum has a large shop where you can buy designer items by Israeli artists. And on the ground floor of the Museum there is an interactive workshop where you can “touch the beauty” yourself, and also safely take or even leave children for several hours, who are provided free of charge with coloring pictures from the Museum’s exposition, colored pencils, crayons, plasticine, books and games .
The museum is open every day from 10 am: on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays until 16:00; on Tuesdays and Thursdays - until 22:00; on Fridays - until 14:00. Day off: Sunday. Address: Tel Aviv, 27 Shaul ha-Melech, phone: +972-3-6961297
The price of an "adult" ticket, both for foreigners and citizens of Israel, is 48 shekels. Benefits are provided for children, students, pensioners, artists and residents of Tel Aviv, but only with a special identity card - Tel Aviv registration in the passport was not enough here ...
Tel Aviv Museum fine arts(English Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Hebrew מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות) was founded in 1932. It is considered one of the largest and most important art museums Israel. The museum's exposition includes the following departments: Israeli art, contemporary art, photography, drawing, graphics, design, architecture and the department of art of the 16th - 19th centuries. In addition to the main exhibition, the museum has a sculpture garden and a youth section. In the first years of its existence, the museum functioned in the Dizengoff House, where the Declaration of Independence of Israel was adopted in 1948.
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was opened in 1932 in the home of the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff, on Rothschild Boulevard. Dizengoff approved the composition of the Advisory Council, which included: Reuven Rubin, Arie Alweil, Batya Lishansky and Chaim Gliksberg. The importance of the new museum for the city was summed up by Dizengoff in his speech: cultural center active young city. On May 14, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel was declared in its building. The success of the Tel Aviv Museum in the Dizengoff House and the expansion of its collection determined the need for large exhibition pavilions. In 1959, the Helena Rubinstein pavilion was opened on Shderot Tarsat. When the main museum building on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard opened in 1971, the museum's exposition was deployed in both buildings. In 1938, a thematic library was created in the main building of the museum, which contains about 50,000 books, 140 periodicals and 7,000 photographs related to various fields of art. Nearby is a sculpture garden. Recently, the exposition area has been expanded with the galleries of a new section built in the western part of the museum. The expansion of the museum has led to an increase in the level and scope of its exhibitions and a comprehensive cultural activities, including the participation of the museum in the organization of concerts classical music and jazz, film demonstrations, lectures, children's performances and much more.
museum complex
The museum complex consists of several buildings: the main building, which includes a new wing on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard; Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, adjacent to the Habima Theatre, and educational center on Dizengoff street.
Main building
In 1971, the director of the museum, Dr. Haim Gamzu, completed the main building of the museum on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard, next to the Beit Ariel Library and the Tel Aviv District Court. The main building of the museum was designed by architects Dan Eitan and Yitzhak Yashar. For this project they were awarded the Richter Prize.
New section
In 2002, a competition was announced for the design of a new western wing of the museum adjacent to the Sculpture Garden, which was also to serve as a new entrance pavilion. The competition was won by Preston Scott Cohen. The cost of building a new wing in accordance with this project…
I was going to start my story about the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts in this way, but then, out of habit, I looked the truth in the face. Or rather, she did it to me.
In her eyes, I read agreement - "Next time." There was something deeply Buddhist in this agreement, and I realized that in this life I had nothing to catch.
This is me to the fact that experience to some extent compensates for the lack of intelligence, and if I happen to visit again art gallery in the street of King Saul, then I will do things differently.
First, don't rush. Three hours for this museum is not a dose.
Secondly, do not panic - if you do not see the pictures, then this does not mean at all that they do not exist. This means that they are most likely located elsewhere.
Thirdly, forget all your museum visiting skills - you are not in Ikea and not in the Tretyakov Gallery. Here the composition is built non-linearly. Moreover - the Tel Aviv Museum, in large part is a collection of private collections. Therefore, if you see the inscription "Mizne - Blumental Collection", then this means exactly that there are paintings there. For some reason, the Tretyakov Gallery does not scare, the Guggenheim Museum does not shock, and for some reason Mitsne and Blumenthal provoke the search for Klimt elsewhere.
Fourthly, you can turn the plan of the museum in your hands as much as you like, read the explanations from right to left and vice versa, you can even come up and ask to be explained and shown on the plan exactly where you are now - this will not help you. More precisely, you will understand exactly where you are, but what to do with this information further ...
"The five-story building of the museum ..." (this is from Wikipedia). And I didn’t understand that there were five floors. Moreover, until I was shown and explained, I did not guess that this brutal concrete prop on the left is actually an elevator.
And this support is not alone.
And the internal geometry of the building is such that any place can be reached in several ways. But with the same probability, there are several ways to get to the place where you just were and were not going to return there. (To be honest, I didn’t manage to get to some points of the museum in any way, although those to whom I straightened the path went further than me and saw more. In general, I didn’t get to contemporary Israeli art).
The museum is huge. Obviously built to grow, although differently than, for example, in Brisbane, where a giant chic almost empty museum complex with several halls with a very interesting collection, and the rest - " as my grandmother said - "this is for later."
The museum is largely underground, which, on the one hand, is justified by the lighting solution and microclimate, and, on the other hand, as it should be in a country where a bomb shelter is the same natural element of a building as a toilet.
So, I did not cope with the plan of the museum given to me. And he went where his eyes look.
Even though I didn't get it right the first time.
But what a wonderful collection of 20th century paintings!
Of course (or maybe not “of course” at all), to the painting of this period (including late XIX), the attitude is more personal and subjective. Although, I do not exclude the possibility that if I had been born in the XIV century in Umbria, my vision of painting would have been something different.
Personally, for example, Dali is unsympathetic to me (although, in my opinion, he is not in the TA museum, although he is everywhere - I even saw him on the city square in Singapore), because he is a rogue and never a humanist, but for an artist ( in any genre - from music to sculpture) this is critically important, I subconsciously dislike Kiriko (which, on the contrary, exists), I believe that Malevich with his "Black Square" is rather a fact of art history than a fact of art proper, but , firstly, no one asks me about this, and secondly, this is my personal business and I do not impose this position on anyone. Although I am tormented by a vague suspicion that the flippers from the museum in Tel Aviv or the sighing pillows in the Pompidou Museum in Paris are still fundamentally different from the "Night Watch" or "Barge Haulers on the Volga".
I won’t show you all the pictures, although I have a lot of them - when the cartridges in the camera ran out, I switched to the phone - it shoots quite well.
God be with him, with Fernand Léger; Pierre Bonnard... Is this a compositional error or is it necessary?
Well, okay. But Pizarro is good.
And Cezanne too.
And the water lilies of Claude Monet are also water lilies in Africa. Also in Paris and Tel Aviv.
Okay, I'm not going to post the entire catalog. Including Modigliani. I'll show you Marc Chagall. At least "Jew with a Torah" - exactly the same hangs in Independence Hall, which I already talked about
and "Wailing Wall", written in 1932
And then there is Chaim Soutine
And the amazing Max Lieberman. Amazing, Fantastic, Gorgeous!
Portrait of Mrs Goeritz 1928. And Mr. Goeritz is an art collector whose family donated this portrait to the Tel Aviv Museum in memory of him.
Just like the works of Alexander Archipenko, which are in the next room. I never saw him live - one of the cubists in sculpture.
And what Ozanfant!
So what if I don't like de Chirico? But the picture is right! "Philosopher and Poet" is called.
And Yves Tanguy also wants to show.
Rene Magritte is unmistakably recognizable.
And Piet Mondrian is so much so that it makes no sense to post a picture.
Well, I don't know... Is there anything to hang out? No, you really try to go to the museum yourself.
Okay, I'll show you Gustav Klimt, so be it.
But there are still rooms with paintings by old masters. Good, kind people they told me how to get there, otherwise I would have fought like a fly between the frames.
Van Dyck, wait a minute. Portrait of a Goldsmith. In this context, it’s not even immediately possible to figure out - is this the character’s surname or profession?
Reynolds again.
Bernard Bellotto. View of Dresden. 1748. Gift from Mr. Zoltan Toman of Santa Barbara, California.
Quite tired. So much so that he could not remember the name of the husband of the aunt depicted in this picture. For some reason, “Polyfarm's wife” popped up in my memory, but I strongly associated this name with medicine.
I suffered a little and remembered. The husband's name was Potiphar. He worked as a pharaoh. And what was her name - and no one remembers at all. Or maybe no one asked.
There are many, many things, I don’t even remember who wrote what, I just really liked the painting “After the Storm” by Josef Israels, in which everything is recognizable, up to the fact that this is a Dutch artist.
In fact, he was going to become a rabbi ...
And main question, which constantly arises in this museum - how is the ban on figurative painting combined with this very painting?
Thank God, somehow combined.
Including Maurizio Gottlieb.
I already wrote somewhere that when you find yourself in an art museum in conditions of the most severe time pressure (and this always happens during tours), it is optimal not to stop at all the paintings in a row, but near those that themselves asked for it .
So I stopped near the female portrait.
Because it's good. Highly.
Read the attribution plate.
Then he approached a self-portrait of Maurycy Gottlieb hanging in the neighborhood. He is, of course, Moshe Gottlieb. He is Moritz. Well, let it be Maurice.
It all happens on the run, so the brain told me only at that moment that, you see, it’s not all clear to him what is written on the plate under portrait of a woman. I had to return, because if something was wrong with him, he would take out my whole brain.
Well, of course, this bore was puzzled by the fact that the painting was donated by a resident of the kibbutz, and even in 1955, when everyone knows that the kibbutz of the 1955 model is not a rich place, and how this is done in collaboration with a lady from Holland is completely incomprehensible.
I asked. Then already, in Moscow.
This is a portrait of Laura Henschel-Rosenfeld, later an outstanding teacher, the creator of her pedagogical school, she was called “Mother Henschel” - she is twenty years old in the portrait - Laura, with whom Mauricius Gottlieb was in love all his twenty-three years of life. He painted her in all his paintings, sometimes several times, as different characters - she was in his paintings “Jews Pray in the Synagogue on Judgment Day”, “Uriel d'Acosta and Judith”, “Shylock and Jessica”.
And she fell in love with another, especially since he promised to shoot himself in case of refusal, and married him.
She lived a long and almost happy life until she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of 86, blind and paralyzed. The last mention of it dates back to April 4, 1944. Maybe it didn't arrive...
Her eldest daughter, Margaret, died in Auschwitz, but her daughter (and, therefore, Laura's granddaughter), Bat-Sheva Sheflan, survived and in 1955, together with another daughter of Laura, Valya Marks, her aunt from Holland, donated a portrait to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which was then located in the building you already know at 16 Rothschild Boulevard.
About Mauricius Gottlieb and Laura Henschel-Rosenfeld, you can read an amazing article http://arktal.livejournal.com/16675.html?thread=67875 that I accidentally found just yesterday.
The only thing that needs to be corrected for the time - the article, apparently, was written quite a long time ago. Bat-Sheva Sheflan died in 2007 at the age of ninety-seven.
I did not get to the exhibition of photography, about which I was later told a lot. Past the flowers (well, there are halls with such bright pictures) flew by with a whistle. I have not seen modern Israeli painting either. This does not count.
Probably, there was something else that I not only did not see, but I do not even know about its existence within the walls of the museum. But this is agnosticism in the sense that it is the same as if it does not exist.
Because three hours at the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts is not enough.
Catastrophically.
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Get acquainted with Israeli painting and sculpture, as well as enjoy the canvases of Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cezanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and even Jackson Pollock (from the collection of Peggy Guggenheim), as well as many other works of the brightest trends Art of the 20th century is available at the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts.
Founded in 1932 and originally housed in the Dizengoff House, the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts is now Israel's largest art museum and the flagship of contemporary Israeli art.
The idea of founding the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts belongs to the first mayor of Tel Aviv - Meir Dizengoff, a key person in the history of Israel in the early 20th century. In his speech at the opening, he noted that Tel Aviv, as the center of the Jewish mentality, needs not only the construction of new houses and the improvement of streets, but also the inculcation of aesthetic taste in the population, since one should not forget about aesthetics and harmony.
Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts. New Preston Scott Cohen Building
In fact, this is not even a single museum, but a complex of buildings, including the main building on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard, the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art, the new wing of the museum or the "temple of modernism" - the creation of the American architect Preston Scott Cohen, as well as the Lola Abner Sculpture Garden and the Meyerhof Art School on Dubnov Street.
The expositions of the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts include modern art from the mid-19th century to the present day, the department of Israeli artists, collections of drawings and prints, the department of photography. The expositions are constantly replenished, including thanks to generous patronage.
- Address of the main building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts: Shaul Hamelech Blvd, 27. You can get to it by buses number 9, 18, 28, 70, 90, 111.
- Helena Rubinstein Pavilion is located at: Tarsat Blvd, 6, buses No. 5, 26. Website (eng.).
Pavilion of Hertha and Paul Amir
Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts(English) Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Hebrew מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ) was founded in 1932. It is considered one of the largest and most important art museums in Israel. The museum's exposition includes the following departments: Israeli art, contemporary art, photography, drawing, graphics, design, architecture and the department of art of the 16th - 19th centuries. In addition to the main exhibition, the museum has a sculpture garden and a youth section. In the first years of its existence, the museum functioned in the Dizengoff House, where the Declaration of Independence of Israel was adopted in 1948.
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| (...) Since Tel Aviv is a city with the potential of a large Jewish area, with a tendency to become the center of modern Jewry in the country and the diaspora, we felt the need to perfect its beauty and the arts that belong to it. We understand that it is impossible to build houses, lay streets and improve the city without thinking about aesthetics and harmony, without instilling aesthetic taste in the population. Therefore, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art was founded. |
The museum, which exhibited the work of Israeli and foreign artists, became the cultural center of an active young city. On May 14, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel was declared in its building.
The success of the Tel Aviv Museum in the Dizengoff House and the expansion of its collection determined the need for large exhibition pavilions. In 1959, the Helena Rubinstein pavilion was opened on Shderot Tarsat. When the main building of the museum on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard opened in 1971, the museum's exposition was deployed in both buildings.
In 1938, a thematic library was created in the main building of the museum, which contains about 50,000 books, 140 periodicals and 7,000 photographs related to various fields of art. Nearby is a sculpture garden. Recently, the exposition area has been expanded with the galleries of a new section built in the western part of the museum.
The museum's expansion has led to an increase in the level and scope of its exhibitions and comprehensive cultural activities, including the museum's participation in organizing classical music and jazz concerts, film screenings, lectures, children's plays and much more.
museum complex
The museum complex consists of several buildings: the main building, which includes a new wing on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard; the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion adjacent to the Habima Theatre, and an educational center on Dizengoff Street.
Main building
In 1971, the director of the museum, Dr. Haim Gamzu, completed the main building of the museum on Shaul HaMeleh Boulevard, next to the Beit Ariel Library and the Tel Aviv District Court. The main building of the museum was designed by architects Dan Eitan and Yitzhak Yashar. For this project they were awarded the Richter Prize.
New section
In 2002, a competition was announced for the design of a new western wing of the museum adjacent to the Sculpture Garden, which was also to serve as a new entrance pavilion. The competition was won by Preston Scott Cohen.
The construction cost of the new wing under this project was US$45 million. For this purpose, many donations were attracted, the most significant of which was made by Sammy Ofer and his wife and amounted to 20 million shekels. Ofer invested in the creation of the museum on his behalf and on behalf of his wife. However, due to numerous protests from the public opposition, which demanded to change the name of the museum, Ofer canceled the donation, and the fundraising continued.
In February 2007, it was reported that sponsors Paul and Gerta Amir had allocated US$10 million for the construction of the new wing. In October 2011, a new wing was completed with a light cascade arranged in the central part, surrounded by ten exhibition pavilions, each dedicated to a different theme. The building was opened to the public on November 2, 2011.
The cost of the project was about 225 million US dollars. The main part - (140 million dollars) was financed by sponsors, the rest - (85 million dollars) was allocated by the municipality of Tel Aviv.
The five-storey building of the museum harmoniously fits into the architecture of the quarter built of gray concrete. The central interior pavilion of the museum is illuminated by natural light, penetrating through the transparent ceiling and flowing along the white walls, like a waterfall falling into the depths of the museum. Artificial light at night creates a similar effect. Visitors moving in this stream of light, and the stream of light itself, as the core of the composition, are connected by a single space.
The opening of a new building is scheduled for 2013, which will house an architectural archive, a museum of photography and fine arts.
Museum branches
The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, which was opened in 1959 next to the Habima Theatre, is now a branch of the museum and is dedicated to contemporary art. The branch curator, Ms. Ellen Ginton, wife of the artist David Ginton, acts on behalf of many young contemporary Israeli artists, helping them organize exhibitions.
Meyerhof Education Center
The Meyerhof Art Education Center is located on Dubnov Street. The Center organizes art workshops for children, teenagers, teachers and adults. The center has didactic exhibitions and organizes excursions for schoolchildren.
Collection
The museum includes collections of classical and modern art, an Israeli art department, a sculpture park and a youth art department.
The exposition presents the most important areas of art of the 1st half of the 20th century: Fauvism, German