The Detroit Institute of the Arts ( Eng. Detroit Institute of Arts ; abbr. DIA ) is the Detroit City Art Museum. The museum contains more than 65 thousand works of art, covering the entire history of art , from ancient Egyptian to modern.
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Founding date | 1885 |
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Address | USA : Detroit , MI |
Site | dia.org |
The museum complex, located next to Wayne University , occupies 658,000 square feet (61,100 m²), making it the sixth largest art museum in the United States. This is one of the main attractions of the historic center of Detroit, entered in the National Register of Historic Places of the United States .
In 2013, the museum received 594,267 visitors (102nd place in the world). It hosts major art exhibitions, as well as a cinema with 1,150 seats, designed by architect Howard Crane ( eng. Howard Crane ). There is an art shop at the museum [1] .
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History
At the root of the museum was James Scrips (1835–1906), the founder of The Detroit News . Returning from a tour of Europe in 1881, Scrips convinced many wealthy Detroiters to donate to the city the paintings that adorn their mansions. To accommodate the exhibition in 1888, the Detroit Museum of Arts ( Detroit Museum of Arts ) was built, styled as the French Middle Ages. In 1919, the museum changed its name to the current one.
The main benefactors of the museum throughout its history were Detroit automagne Doji and Fords, in particular Edsel Ford . His wife's nephew, Robert Hudson Tannehill , bequeathed the museum a first-class collection of modern art. In 1932, Ford ordered Rivera to decorate the museum building with five large-format frescoes on the theme “Man and Machine”.
"St. Jerome " van Eyck
Madonna Gozzoli
Wedding Dance (picture by Bruegel)
Nightmare (Fussley)
Self-portrait by Van Gogh
When Detroit was declared bankrupt in 2013, many lenders demanded the sale of museum treasures as the most liquid assets of a depressed city. The auction house " Christie's " in December 2013 prepared a report in which the cost of the 2500 most valuable exhibits of the museum was estimated from $ 454 million to 867 million [2] . Only Van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat” was valued at $ 150 million.
Detroitans have developed a plan to save the museum from liquidation, requiring financial investments of hundreds of millions of dollars. In particular, the crisis city manager suggested that the Michigan auto giants do their bit to save Detroit's pride [3] . As a result, a plan was adopted to meet the requirements of creditors, which does not provide for the imposition of a penalty on the museum collection.
Main building
As the number of exhibits increased, a need arose for the construction of a new building, and in 1920 Detroit announced an architectural competition . The commission, which included Edsel Ford and architect Albert Kahn , recognized the winners of the Philadelphia architect Paul Crete ( Eng. Paul Philippe Cret ) and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary .
The Bozar -style building (with a predominance of Neo-Renaissance features), laid down on June 26, 1923, opened its doors to visitors on October 7, 1927. The facade is made of white marble . In 1966 and 1971, the southern and northern wings were attached to the historical building, respectively. Opposite the museum is the marble marble building of the Detroit Public Library , designed in the same style as the museum.
Notes
- ↑ Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Shop (eng.)
- ↑ Christie's values Detroit's art at $ 454M- $ 867M Archived copy dated April 2, 2015 on the Wayback Machine (eng.)
- ↑ Orr pleads with lawmakers for Grand Bargain cash, creditors plot legal strategy (Eng.)
Links
- Official site (eng.)