Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
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The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (豊田市美術館) is an art museum located in the city of Toyota, Aichi
in central Japan.
, Egon Schiele
, Edvard Munch
, and others. The museum building was constructed by Yoshio Taniguchi
, who also renovated the Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA) in New York City.
Artists who have exhibited are Leiko Ikemura
.
Public transport is with the Mikawa Line to Toyotashi Station
.
Toyota, Aichi
is a city located in the Mikawa region of Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of Nagoya.Toyota's main plant, the Tsutsumi plant, is located here. The longstanding ties between the Toyota Motor Corporation and the town of Toyota-shi, formerly known as Koromo, gave the town its current...
in central Japan.
History
The museum features works by Gustav KlimtGustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects...
, Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced...
, Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...
, and others. The museum building was constructed by Yoshio Taniguchi
Yoshio Taniguchi
Yoshio Taniguchi is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York which was reopened November 20, 2004.- Biography :...
, who also renovated the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
(MoMA) in New York City.
Artists who have exhibited are Leiko Ikemura
Leiko Ikemura
is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980...
.
Public transport is with the Mikawa Line to Toyotashi Station
Toyotashi Station
is a railway station operated by Meitetsu in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture Japan. It is located 15.7 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Mikawa Line at Chiryū Station and 16.6 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Toyota Line at Akaike Station.-History:...
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