National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo)

Japan's only state museum of Western art was created on the basis of a collection of works of art by Matsukata Kojiro . His collection, located in France, was confiscated during World War II, but in the late 1950s, part of it was transferred by France to Japan as a sign of reconciliation with the Japanese people. In 1957, for these 196 paintings, 80 drawings, 63 sculptures and 26 graphic works, the construction of the new museum building in Tokyo's Ueno Park began under the design of Le Corbusier , which was helped by Japanese architects Kunio Maekawa , Sakakura Dzunzo and Yoshizaka Takamas . In 1959, this two-story building was completed, in 1979 it was expanded by Kunio Maekawa, a student of Le Corbusier, by adding an additional room. In 1997, an exhibition hall for mobile exhibits and an educational and lecture audience were added to it.

Currently, the museum's collection covers about two thousand exhibits representing European art from the Middle Ages to the present. On the ground floor of the museum are stored works of painting created in the period from the beginning of the XV - until the end of the XVIII century. Here are the canvases of Italian masters - L. Bassano , J. Tintoretto , Paolo Veronese , J. Vasari , C. Dolchi , J. F. Barbieri , G. Reni , J. D. Tiepolo , J. B. Tiepolo , Pietro Longi and others. The works of Dutch and Flemish masters include canvases by A. van Dyck , P.P. Rubens , G. Dow , J. van Goyen , Jan Steen , J. van Reusdal , I. van Ostade , J. van Kleve and other artists. From German painting there are works by L. Cranach the Elder . From the French - paintings by Philippe Champagne , J. de La Tour , C. Lorren , J.-O. Fragonard , C.-J. Vernet , J.-M. Nattier , J.-B. Patera , as well as E. Delacroix , O. Daumier , J.-F. Millet , C. Corot . Of Spanish painting, the most significant are the paintings of El Greco , B.E. Murillo and Jose de Ribera .

The annex, erected in 1979, contains works of art created in the 2nd half of the 19th and the 20th centuries. The basis of this collection is the work of the French impressionists E. Manet , O. Renoir , V. van Gogh , C. Monet (16 paintings), A. Sisley , P. Gauguin , P. Bonnard , M. Denis , P. Cezanne , K. Pissarro and others. Here you can also see the works of Italian futurists and English Pre-Raphaelites of the first half of the late XIX - XX centuries: J. Segantini , D. G. Rossetti , J. E. Millet , the French symbols G. Moreau and P. S. Puvi de Chavannes , pointillist J. Signac . Among the works of masters of the 20th century, works by P. Picasso , F. Leger , J. Miro , A. Derain , M. Ernst , J. Rouault , J. Pollock , H. Soutine , C. van Dongen and many others are presented.

The graphic collection of the museum includes, among other things, a large number of works by such masters as A. Dürer , F. Goya , G. Holbein, Jr. , Rembrandt , J. B. Piranesi , M. Klinger . On the ground floor of the museum are also included sculptures in the collection. Tokyo NMZI has one of the largest collections of works by O. Rodin - out of 58 of his works, including such famous ones as The Thinker , Citizens of Kale, and Gates of Hell .

Unified Directory

The “Joint Catalog of National Museum Art of Japan Collections” is a joint catalog of materials held in four Japanese national art museums:

• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
• National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• Osaka National Museum of Art
• National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo ^[1] .

• Seiro Mayekawa: Masterpieces Of The National Museum Of Western Art Tokyo . Tokio 1983

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  O. Roden Gates of Hell

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  O. Roden The Thinker

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  El Greco Christ on the Cross

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  Lucas Cranach the Senior Garden of Gethsemane

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  P.-P.Rubens Two sleeping children

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  G.Kurbe Volna

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  Edouard Manet Portrait of Monsieur Brune

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  Claude Monet Poplar in the sun

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  O. Renoir Woman with a rose

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  P. Signac Harbor in Saint-Tropez