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The Berggruen Museum (also known as the Berggruen Collection) is a collection of modern art classics in Berlin, which the collector and dealer Heinz Berggruen, in a "gesture of reconciliation", gave to his native city. The most notable artists on display include Pablo Picasso, Giambattista Pittoni, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse. The Berggruen Collection is part of the National Gallery of Berlin. ==History== The collection arrived in Berlin in 1996, with Berggruen's return to his native city after six decades in exile. In 1988 he had given about 90 Klees to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,〔Carol Vogel (December 21, 2000), (Dealer Will Enrich Art Of the Berlin He Fled ) ''New York Times''.〕 and in 1990, he had agreed to make a five-year loan (renewable by mutual agreement) to the National Gallery in London of 72 paintings and drawings by Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Joan Miró.〔John Russell (June 3, 1990), (Gifts That Can Change The Climate Of A Museum ) ''New York Times''.〕〔Alan Riding (February 27, 2007), (Heinz Berggruen, Influential Picasso Collector, Dies at 93 ) ''New York Times''.〕 Also in 1990, negotiations with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía for the Berggruen collection to be shown in Madrid fell through.〔 Berggruen initially lent the collection, which he had assembled over 30 years, to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (PCHF).〔(Der Glückskauf für Berlin ) Ingeborg Ruthe, ''Berliner Zeitung'', 11 November 2000. 〕 He finally sold it to the PCHF in December 2000, for the "symbolic"〔(Wowereit beglückwünscht Berggruen zum 90. Geburtstag ) State of Berlin website, 5 January 2004. 〕 price of 253 million marks, well below its then estimated value of 1.5 billion marks.〔(Ein Giacometti zum Abschied ) ''Die Tageszeitung'', 16 December 2006. 〕 Today it is exhibited under the title "Berggruen Collection – Picasso and His Time" as part of the National Gallery of Berlin, in the West Stüler Building on Schloßstraße, opposite Charlottenburg Palace. The centrepiece of the collection is the work of Picasso, with over 100 exhibits, together with over 60 pictures by Paul Klee. Henri Matisse is represented by over 20 works, including more than half a dozen of his famous cutouts. Sculpture ensembles by Alberto Giacometti and examples of African sculpture round out the core of the collection. Berggruen continued to purchase works after the museum's opening in 1996, including Picasso's important 1909 painting ''Houses on the Hill'' (''Horta de Ebro'')〔(Weekend Update ) Walter Robinson, ''Artnet Magazine''. 〕 from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A total of 165 works were transferred from Berggruen to the PCHF in the 2000 sale. In 2005 the Berggruen family acquired Picasso's ''Nu Jaune'' (1907) for $13.7 million at Sotheby's in New York.〔(Picasso Surprise Highlights Sotheby's Strong Sale ) Carly Berwick, ''The New York Sun'', 3 November 2005. 〕 This gouache is one of the first studies for ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'', a milestone in 20th-century art. To mark the 10th anniversary of the museum, and his permanent retirement from public life at the age of 92, Berggruen donated a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, ''Standing Woman III'', to the collection in December 2006. It had in fact already been on loan at the museum until then, standing in the Stüler Building's rotunda. To keep the two-metre high bronze statue within the collection – his life's work – Berggruen quickly purchased it and donated it to the PCHF.〔 Several weeks later, on 23 February 2007, he died in Paris. The museum received 1.5 million visitors during its first decade from 1996 to 2006.〔 Besides the permanent exhibition "Picasso and His Time", the museum hosts numerous special exhibitions on themes of classic modern art. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berggruen Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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