The Evolving House Museum

Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69019-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets

This volume explores twelve house museums, created over more than two centuries, and founded across the globe. What motivates collectors to establish independent house museums instead of donating their collections to preexisting institutions? How have collectors’ original intentions manifested themselves in their museums? Have founder mandates aided the survival or caused the demise of their institutions? How have house museums’ collections or buildings evolved over time? Must museums reinterpret their collections to remain relevant to contemporary and diverse audiences? In seeking to answer these questions, the volume’s authors share the unique stories behind the creation and evolution of these fascinating institutions, and the intriguing stories of the exceptional individuals who founded them.

Contributors: Aiste Bimbiryte, Eliza Butler, Chih-En Chen, Enrico Colle, Allegra Davis, Marissa Hershon, Mia Laufer, Ulrike Müller, Nadine Nour el Din, Inge Reist, Anne Nellis Richter, and Georgina S. Walker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Iacono Wertz, Margaret

Quodbach, Esmée

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now

Margaret Iacono Wertz and Esmée Quodbach

Part 1: Early Beginnings

1 Cleveland House as Art Museum? The Short Life of the ‘Louvre of London’

Anne Nellis Richter

2 Art, Science, and Empire: Contextualizing the Collections at Frederic Church’s Olana

Allegra K. Davis

3 Historical Challenges and Future Perspectives for Collection Museums: The Case of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Ulrike Müller

4 In the Heart of Florentine Collections: Frederick Stibbert and His Museum

Enrico Colle

Part 2: The Gilded Age and Beyond

5 The Divergent Legacies of Parisian Collectors Isaac and Moïse de Camondo

Mia Laufer

6 The Frick Collection: From Private Home to Public Museum

Inge Reist

7 The Ringling’s Ca’ d’Zan: Its Evolution from Winter Residence to Historic House Museum

Marissa S. Hershon

8 An Infinite Reverie: A History of Cairo’s Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

Nadine Nour el Din

Part 3: Looking Back, Looking Forward

9 Black Voices and Modern Art: The Problem of “Inclusiveness” at The Phillips Collection

Eliza Butler

10 Between Exclusivity and Public Access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

Aiste Bimbiryte

11 A House Museum as a House Temple: Sequenced Ritual Spaces in Hung’s Art Gallery in Taipei

Chih-En Chen

12 A New Type of House Museum: Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne (2009)

Georgina S. Walker

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Iacono Wertz, (MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York) specializes in northern art and the history of collecting. She was formerly Associate Research Curator at The Frick Collection, New York (2000–2019).

Esmée Quodbach (MA, Utrecht University) is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting as well as the history of collecting. She was formerly Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, New York (2007–2020).