Collections
The emphasis of the collection is on the works of Gustave Doré (369 works: paintings, graphic arts and sculptures), Jean Arp (53 works: sculptures, graphic arts and stained-glass windows), Victor Brauner (37 works: paintings, graphic arts and one sculpture) and César Domela (10 works). A further accent is set by contemporary German painters (Markus Lüpertz, Eugen Schönebeck, Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, A. R. Penck, Albert Oehlen, Daniel Richter, Jonathan Meese, Thomas Scheibitz, Wolf Vostell etc.), who give a representative glimpse of an art genre which is otherwise rarely seen in France, especially on this scale.
The Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg also owns the first cubist painting ever purchased by a public French collection, "Still Life" (1911) by Georges Braque, acquired in 1923, as well as the first painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti purchased by a public French collection, "Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance" (1863), acquired in 1996 (now displayed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts).
Further important exhibited works of fine artists are (selected):
- Camille Pissarro
- Claude Monet
- Auguste Rodin
- Max Liebermann
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Auguste Rodin
- Francis Picabia
- Pablo Picasso
- Alexander Archipenko
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Ossip Zadkine
- Paul Klee
- Max Ernst
- Theo van Doesburg
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Marcelle Cahn (89 works owned)
- Auguste Herbin
- Alberto Magnelli
- Jean Hélion
- Asger Jorn
- Arman
- Gilles Aillaud
- Malcolm Morley
The collection of Alsatian artists is also important, in terms of their number and at least their regional value, representing such genres as Art Nouveau, Expressionism and New Realism: Charles Spindler, René Beeh, Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, Henri Beecke, Luc Hueber, Martin Hubrecht and Camille Claus.
The photographic library of the museum has several thousand photographs, from the origin of photography up until today, including works of Nadar, Eugène Atget, Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey, August Sander, Willy Maywald, Josef Sudek, Robert Mapplethorpe, Duane Michals and Jan Saudek. Regional photography is also acknowledged.
The artistic video collection has works of Bill Viola, Nam June Paik, Woody Vasulka, Olaf Breuning and many others.
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