- Wallraf-Richartz Museum
The Wallraf-Richartz Museum is one of the three major museums in
Cologne ,Germany .It is an
art gallery with a collection offine art from themedieval period to the earlytwentieth century .Part of its collection was used for the establishment of
Museum Ludwig in1976 .Medieval
Gothic collection
The "Madonna in the Rose Bower", shown at right, is among the Gothic paintings in the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum.
It was created by
Stefan Lochner , who lived between 1410 and 1451 in Germany, mainly working inCologne . He is considered a late Gothic painter.His work usually has a clean appearance, combining the Gothic attention toward long flowing lines with brilliant colors and a Flemish influence of realism and attention to detail.
This painting is considered typical of his style. It was executed about
1450 and shows the Virgin and Child reposing in a bloomingrose arbor that is attended by Lochner's characteristic, childangel s.Early Renaissance collection
Jacob van Utrecht is the painter of thealtarpiece for the Great Saint Martin Church in Cologne, dated1515 , which is now in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum. This painter is also known by another signature, "Jacobus Traicetensis". He was an earlyRenaissance Flemish painter who worked inAntwerp andLübeck , and his lifespan is thought to have been from 1479 to sometime after 1525. In addition to Jacobus Traicetensis, he also signed some of his artworks with his real surname, Claez.Very little is known about the painter. Research on this important Flemish artist did not begin until the end of nineteenth century. Although it is not certain, it appears that he was born in Utrecht. It is assumed that he became a citizen of Antwerp around 1500 and he is recorded as a "free master craftsman" of the
Guild of St Luke there from 1506 to 1512.From 1519 to 1525 he is recorded as a member of the Leonardsbruderschaft ("Leonard's Brotherhood"), a religious confraternity of merchants in Lübeck among whose ranks the leaders of the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s could be found. Nothing else has been discovered about him.
Nineteenth century
Impressionist collection
The Wallraf-Richartz collection includes the work of Impressionist painter,
Berthe Morisot , which was painted in 1881, and is entitled, "Child among staked roses" or "Kind zwischen Stockrosen".In 1864, paintings by Morisot began to be admitted for exhibition in the highly esteemed
Salon de Paris . Sponsored by the government and judged byacademician s, the Salon is the annual juried exhibition of the best new paintings and sculptures, the official art exhibition of theAcadémie des beaux-arts in Paris.Her work continued to be selected for exhibition in the salon for ten years before, in 1874, she joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions. Organized by Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley, it was held at the studio of the
photographer , Nadar.Twentieth century
American pop art retrospective
James Rosenquist , born onNovember 29 ,1933 , is an acclaimed American artist. He was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In junior high school, Rosenquist won a short-term scholarship to study at the Minneapolis School of Art and subsequently studied painting at theUniversity of Minnesota from 1952 to 1954. In 1955 he moved toNew York onscholarship to study at the Art Students League. From 1957 to 1960, he earned his living as a billboard painter. This was perfect training, as it turned out, for an artist about to explode onto thepop art scene.The Wallraf-Richartz Museum participated in his first early career
retrospective in1972 in conjunction with theWhitney Museum of American Art , in New York. Since that retrospective, he has been the subject of several gallery and museum exhibitions, both in the United States and Europe.Monet forgery discovered
On February 14, 2008, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum announced that "On the Banks of the Seine by Port Villez", atrributed to
Claude Monet , was a forgery. The discovery was made when the painting was examined by restorers prior to an upcoming Impressionism exhibition. X-ray and infrared testing revealed that a "coloress substance" had been applied to the canvas to make it appear older. The picture was acquired by the museum in 1954. The museum, which will keep the forgery, still has five authentic Monet paintings in its collection. [ [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVxW8AFhmjVkdIHZYB64fOsqnkrQ German museum discovers prized Monet is a fake] ]References
External links
* http://www.museenkoeln.de/english/wallraf-richartz-museum/
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