Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Introduction
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Hebrew: מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות, Muze'on Tel Aviv Lamanut) is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel.
History
It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art opened in 1959. The museum moved to its current location on Saul-Hamelekh Avenue in 1971, another wing was added in 1999 and the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden was established.[1] It also contains the Joseh and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center, open since 1988.[2].
The museum houses a comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary art, especially Israeli art, a sculpture garden and a youth wing.
In 2018, the museum broke a record with 1,018,323 visitors.[3].
Permanent collection
The museum's collection represents some of the leading artists of the first half of the century and several of the avant-gardes of modern art in this period: Fovism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Constructivism, De Stijl and Surrealism, French art from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists to the School of Paris "School of Paris (art)"), including works by Chaim Soutine, key works by Pablo Picasso from the Blue and Neoclassical periods to his period late and works by Joan Miró.
In 1989, American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein created a gigantic two-panel mural especially for the Museum, which hangs in the entrance hall.[4].
The collection includes several notable works, including Portrait of Friedericke Maria Beer (1916) by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and Untitled Improvisation V (1914) by Russian artist Vasili Kandinsky.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, donated in 1950, includes 36 works by abstract and surrealist artists, including works by Jackson Pollock, William Baziotes, Richard Pousette-Dart, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta and André Masson.
The sculptures are displayed in the entrance plaza and in an interior sculpture garden.