Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts
{{Short description|Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland}}
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| location = Lausanne, Switzerland
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| director = Bernard Fibicher
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| curator = Catherine Lepdor
| owner = Canton of Vaud
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The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts ({{langx|fr|Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, MCBA}}) is an art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Collection
The museum was created by private initiative in 1841, with funds provided by the artist Marc-Louis Arlaud, who became its first curator. Private funds still help the acquisition process with gifts and legacies. In 2014, the museum conserved around 10,000 artworks. A part of them retrace a general history of art, beginning with ancient Egypt, but the largest part focuses on art from the end of the eighteenth century to Post-Impressionism. The reputation of the museum is due to five great collections: those of Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748–1810), Charles Gleyre (1806–1874), Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923), Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) and Louis Soutter (1871–1942).
Modern and contemporary art collections includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, Rolf Iseli, Tadeusz Kantor, Charles Rollier, Daniel Spoerri or Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Expressive figuration is extensively represented by Günter Brus, Luciano Castelli, Miriam Cahn, Martin Disler, Leiko Ikemura, Arnulf Rainer, Klaudia Schifferle, and {{ill|Jean-Frédéric Schnyder|de}}, among others.
In the years 1990–2010, the museum focused on the acquisition of majors works by international artists such as Christian Boltanski, Tom Burr, Sophie Calle, Alfredo Jaar, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman and Jim Shaw, as well as representing local artists such as {{ill|Jean-Luc Manz|fr}}, Edmond Jean de Pury, Alain Huck, Silvie Defraoui, {{ill|Didier Rittener|fr}}, {{ill|Denis Savary|fr}} and {{ill|Anne-Julie Raccoursier|fr}}.
In October 2019, the museum relocated to the new
Gallery
File:Intérieur aux deux verres.jpg|Intérieur aux deux verres by Marius Borgeaud (1923)
File:Bocion In Ouchy 1874.jpg|À Ouchy by François Bocion (1874)
File:Nuage à Romanel.jpg|Nuage à Romanel by Félix Vallotton (1900)
See also
Notes and references
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External links
{{Commons category|Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts}}
- {{Official website|http://www.mcba.ch}}
- [https://archive.today/20130628064818/http://www.lausanne.ch/en/ville-culturelle/culture-a-vivre/musees/adresses-musees/musee-beaux-arts.html Page on the website of the City of Lausanne]
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Category:Art museums and galleries in Switzerland