The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (Spanish: ''Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao'',

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. It is the second largest and most visited museum in the Basque Country, after the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and one of the richest Spanish museums outside Madrid. It houses a valuable and quite comprehensive collection of Basque, Spanish and European art from the

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to contemporary, including paintings by old masters like El Greco, Cranach,

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History

The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao was established in 1908. After moving through various venues, the final headquarters were built in 1945, in a great neoclassical building that was to undertake paths expansions in 1970 and 2001 to house the growing museum collection. The collection of the present Bilbao Fine Arts Museum originated with the merger of the collections from the first ''Museo de Bellas Artes'', inaugurated in 1914, and the ''Museo de Arte Moderno'' (''Museum of Modern Art'') in 1924. In 2008 the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao reached its century under the slogan "100 Years of History, 10 Centuries of Art". During more than 100 years of history, the collaboration between civil society, local artists and public institutions has enabled the museum to gather an extensive collection, considered one of the most important and diverse of all Spain. Its creation is unique taking into account the importance of bequests and donations from diverse patrons and benefactors, as well as the continuous effort of the museum itself to expand through major acquisitions. Since its inception, the interest in establishing a representative artistic compendium has allowed to refine the selection criteria, and, as a result, the museum can offer and present a panoramic lengthy art history to its visitors.

Aim of the museum

In its role as a public cultural entity, the main mission is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit its own collection, pursue their enrichment, maintain services and promote quality activities in order to contribute decisively to the education of the society and projection of the cultural values of the Basque Autonomous Community.

The institution and its headquarters

The museum of Fine Arts

The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum was established in 1908 and opened in 1914, guided by the will to modernize individuals and adapt to the cultural moment that the city lived. Its main objectives was to provide a space which at that time was considered essential in any modern society and provide historical role models to the local arts community that would help to complete and develop their training. Indeed, the most important impetus for the realization of the project was the contribution by the legacy of an extensive art collection of great value by the entrepreneur and philanthropist Laureano Jado. Jado was followed soon by other major donations of Antonio Plasencia, the House of Meetings of Guernica or the consulate of Bilbao. The Bilbao painter Manuel Losada is also considered one of the main promoters of the museum, and he became the director of the first office in the School of Arts and Crafts Village, located in the building of the former Civil Hospital in Achuri.

The museum of Modern Art

Through contacts of young artists with other art centers, and thanks mainly to the increasingly common regular schedule of exhibitions of contemporary art, organized on many occasions by the newly created Association of Basque Artists, a growing concern about the so-called "modern art" took place in the social and cultural environment of the city, enabling the creation of another center dedicated solely to contemporary art. Thus, on October 25, 1924 the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors where previously the Conservatory of Music was installed, owned by the council. The new museum was born with a distinctly innovative spirit of its time and, in fact, the updating of the criteria and the risk assumed with the museum initiatives differentiate the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum from the rest of museums located in Spain. The International Exhibition of 1919, held in the building of "Berastegui schools", was a key factor behind the birth of this initiative. Apart from the relevant list of national and international artists who participated in it, there was also a strong commitment from the organizers with contemporary art, shown with the acquisition by the Council of a significant set of pieces such as the work of Cassatt, Gauguin, Sidaner, Cottet, Serusier, and Spanish Anglada Camarasa, Nonell and Canals among others, and eventually entering the museum collection. Following the tradition of the directors-artists, the Basque painter Aurelio Arteta would be named director, who remained in front of it until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936.

The new building

The war affected unequally to the two museums. While the Museum of Fine Arts moved to Deposito Franco Uribitarte in Bilbao, works in the Museum of Modern Art were expatriated. The recovery of the works was an urgent determination of the new power and once achieved that goal a new need emerged to study a different location for the museum. The same year 1939 when the war ended, the County Council and the City Council reached an agreement to jointly fund the construction of the new building in the so-called park of the Three Nations (current Doña Casilda Park). The building, designed by the young architect Fernando Urrutia and Gonzalo Cárdenas, and probably inspired by the great historical museums including the Prado with neoclassic forms, combining stone and red brick. The work was completed in 1945 and in 1962 was declared "Monumento Nacional". MBBAA Atrio edificio antiguo

Extensions of the museum

With the aim of adding a new wing to the neoclassical building, the architects Alvaro Lebanon and Ricardo de Beascoa Jauregui reformed the museum with minimalist lines and modern materials such as metal and glass. This new architecture was inaugurated in 1970, staying since the contemporary art section. The museum has also undertaken various works of enlargement and improvement to enable new spaces and facilities (exhibition hall, auditorium, cabinet graphics) and the provision of new services (Restoration Department, Cataloguing, Documentation and Education, as well as a library, film library, bookstore and cafeteria). In the late nineties proprietary institutions such as the Bilbao City Council, the Provincial Council of Vizcaya and the Basque Government, aware of the growing importance of cultural facilities in the city, promoted the "Reform and Expansion Plan" at the Museum. In 1996, under the direction of Miguel Zugaza and pursuing the improvement of facilities and services, a link between the original building and its extension was added, respecting the existing architectures. In addition, to gain space for the expansion of visitor services and exhibition spaces, the entrances to the museum were also modified, placing them in the reformed Square Monument to Arriaga and the new "Plaza Chillida". The works were completed in November 2001. MBBAA_Edificio_nuevo_1971

Recent history

In December 2000, the institutions agreed to create the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Foundation. The governing body is the Board, in which representatives of the institutions are integrated with other natural or legal persons who, for their input or knowledge of the museum activity, promote the achievement of foundational purposes. In October 2008, under the slogan "100 years of history, 10 centuries of art", the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum celebrated its centenary. In May 2009, the mayor of Bilbao

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publicly commented on the opportunity to undertake further expansions. Due to the difficulties and limitations of extending the building once again, a second placement was found where the newest art pieces are still stored. Today the museum has a total area of 13,914 m2, of which 5,089 are distributed in 33 rooms for the permanent collection, temporary exhibitions in 1142 and the rest in domestic and care visitor services.

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, formerly director of the

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, is currently director of the museum since 2017. In 2019, architecture firms Foster + Partners and LM Urirate were selected over six other teams to design the future expansion and remodeling of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. The expansion is to add over of new galleries within an open and flexible floor plan. MBBAA Sala Antiguo

Collection

Notable for the lengthy period it covers (from the 12th century to the present day) and the extraordinary variety of art works acquired since its inception, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum collection currently boasts more than ten thousand works including 1,500 paintings, 400 sculptures, more than 6,500 works on paper and 1,000 pieces of art applied. These works are spread over 33 rooms corresponding to the permanent exhibition, and the museum's collection is divided into five main sections: ancient art, modern and contemporary art, Basque art, works on paper and applied arts. The collection combines classical art, contemporary art and creations by Basque artists, as well as a small display of applied arts. The backbone of the collection is the Spanish school whose ancient and modern examples of Basque art are also part of the contemporary age. The broad representation of other schools such as the Flemish and Dutch during the 15th - 17th centuries, unique works of the Italian school, as well as some examples of

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provide Spanish and Basque art with an international context. The collection combines classical art (Cranach, El Greco, Van Dyck, Goya), contemporary art (Bacon, Kitaj, Serra and Tàpies) and creations by Basque artists (Regoyos, Zuloaga and Echevarría), as well as a small display of applied arts. The exhibition is presented in chronological order, and covers the period from the 17th century to the present day. The collection contains over 10,000 works composed by 1,500 paintings, 400 sculptures, more than 6,500 works on paper and 1,000 pieces of art applied.

Permanent collection

The collection of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gathers an outstanding heritage of more than 10,000 pieces: approximately 1,500 paintings, 400 sculptures, more than 6,500 works on paper and a thousand pieces of applied arts. It also preserves relevant examples of some of the major European schools from the 18th century to the present day and other exceptional collections such as the Palace collection of Oriental art, pottery collection of Manises of the 14th-16th centuries or Taramona-Basabe collection of

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bronzes, Italic, Roman and Iberian, whose chronology goes back to the 6th century BC. The Flemish and Dutch painting schools are of particular interest, with renowned works of Gossart, Benson and Coecke, Mandijn, Vredeman de Vries, De Vos, Jordaens,

, Grebber or Ruisdael. In 2012 the museum has added an important example of Lucas Cranach the Elder: ''Lucretia'' (1534). It also has the largest collection from Basque artists, becoming the maximum reference institution due to its artistic and documentary heritage, research tradition and proximity to the artists. It is worth mentioning the variety of works on paper, prints and engravings by Albrecht Dürer, Van Meckenem,

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, Immendorff, Bacon and Antonio Saura, among others. An indispensable tour of the museum includes rare works by Bermejo, Benson, Mandijn, Vredeman de Vries,

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, De Vos,

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, Cassatt, Sorolla, Iturrino, Ensor, Regoyos, Romero de Torres, Zuloaga, Sunyer, Gutiérrez Solana, Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Lipchitz, Delaunay, González, Gargallo, Bacon, Palazuelo, Oteiza, Appel, Chillida,

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, Serra, Millares, Tàpies,

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, Lüpertz, Kitaj,

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Essential works

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: ''Village Girl with Red Carnation'' - c. 1903 * Alberto Sánchez: ''Figures in a Landscape'' - c. 1960–1962 * Ambrosius Benson: ''Pietà at the Foot of the Cross, (fragment)'' - c. 1530 *Anonymous,

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: ''Descent'' and ''The Flood'' or ''Noah's Ark'' - last third of the 13th century * Anthony van Dyck: ''Lamentation over the Dead Christ'' - c. 1634–1640 * Antoni Tàpies: ''Great Oval or Painting'' - c. 1955 *

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(Anthonis van Dashort): ''Portrait of Philip II'' - c. 1549–1550 *

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: ''The Bridge at Burceña'' - c. 1925–1930 * Bartolomé Bermejo: ''Flagellation of Saint Engracia'' - c. 1474–1478 * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: ''St. Peter in Tears'' - c. 1650–1655 * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: ''St. Lesmes'' - c. 1655 *

Bernardo Bellotto Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his ''vedute'' of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was th ...

: ''Landscape with Palace'' or ''Architectural Capriccio with Palace'' - c. 1765–1766 *

Darío de Regoyos Darío de Regoyos y Valdés (November 1, 1857 – October 29, 1913) was a Spanish painter. He was notable for contributing to "the renewal of modern Spanish painting". A student of Carlos de Haes at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Ferna ...

: ''Bathing in Rentería. Soir Eléctrique'' - c. 1899 * Diego de la Cruz: ''Christ of Pity'' - c. 1485 *

Eduardo Chillida Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque (10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002), was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works. Early life and career Born in San Sebastián (Donostia) to P ...

: ''Around the Vacuum I'' - c. 1964 * El Greco (Domenikos Theotokópoulos): ''The Annunciation'' - c. 1596–1600 *

: ''Lying Figure in Mirror'' - c. 1971 *

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: ''Portrait of Martín Zapater'' - c. 1797 *

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: ''The Virgin with the Child Jesus and the Child St. John'' - c. 1662 *

Paco Durrio Francisco Durrio de Madrón, known as Paco Durrio (22 May 1868, Valladolid - 30 August 1940, Paris) was a Spanish sculptor, ceramicist and goldsmith; of French descent. He worked in the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. Life and work His father ...

: ''Head of Christ'' - c. 1895–1896 *

Ignacio Zuloaga Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar (Guipuzcoa), near the monastery of Loyola. Family He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and ...

: ''Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles'' - c. 1913 * Jan Mandijn (or Mandyn): ''Burlesque Feast'' - c. 1550 *

Joaquín Sorolla Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida ( va, Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida, 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish Valencian painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. ...

: ''The Relic'' - c. 1893 *

Jorge Oteiza Jorge Oteiza (October 21, 1908 – April 9, 2003), was a Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer from the Basque Autonomous Community, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Basque modern art. Oteiza was born in Or ...

: ''Portrait of an armed Gudari (basque soldier) called Odysseus'' - c. 1975 *

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: ''St. Sebastian cured by the Holy Women'' - c. 1621 * José Gutiérrez Solana: ''On the Game'' - c. 1915–1917 * Juan de Arellano: ''Basket of Flowers'' - c.1671 *

: ''Lucrecia'' - c. 1530 *

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: ''Head of Dead Bull'' - c. 1939 * Luis Meléndez: ''Still-Life with Fruit and Jug'' - c. 1773 * Luis Paret y Alcázar: ''View of the Arenal at Bilbao'' - c. 1783–1784 * Marten de Vos: ''The Abduction of Europa'' - c. 1590 *

: ''Woman seated with a child in her arms'' - c. 1890 *

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: ''Saint Ana, the Virgin and Child'' - c. 1485–1490 *

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: ''Lot and his Daughters'' - c. 1628 *

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: ''Le Chasseur'' - c. 1933 *

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: ''Bathers'' - c. 1896–1898 *

: ''Washerwomen in Arles'' - c. 1888 *

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: ''Nude Woman Reading'' - c. 1920 *

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: ''Kabuki Actor as Wood cutter'' - c. 1815

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