Amos Rex is an art museum named after publisher and arts patron

Amos Anderson Amos Valentin Anderson (3 September 1878, Kimito, Finland – 2 April 1961, Kimito, Finland) was the owner of Finland's largest Swedish-language newspaper, Hufvudstadsbladet, and a patron of the arts. Amos Anderson grew up in the Southwestern Arch ...

located in

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, Mannerheimintie, Helsinki, Finland. It opened in 2018 and rapidly reached international popularity, attracting more than 10,000 visitors in a matter of weeks.

History

In 2013, the museum announced plans to build a subterranean annex under the

plaza, located near the museum's premises on Yrjönkatu. The annex was estimated to cost 50 million euros and to also use facilities above the ground in the Lasipalatsi building. The Helsinki City Board decided to reserve the plot for the museum in December 2013. The funding was provided by the Finnish-Swedish arts foundation Konstsamfundet. The museum plan was unanimously approved by the

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in May 2014 and the new annex was scheduled to open in 2017. The new annex was designed by

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, whose other works include the

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and the Finnish pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The construction of the new museum started in January 2016 and it opened to the public in August 2018.

Exhibitions

Massless

Massless, the first exhibition at the Amos Rex museum, was created by the Japanese collective teamLab. It consisted of a colourful, immersive interactive art exhibition. Viewers were encouraged to interact and explore with the surroundings, generating different visual results.

Amos Anderson Art Museum, 1965-2017

The Amos Anderson Art Museum ( fi, Amos Andersonin taidemuseo, sv, Amos Andersons konstmuseum) is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest private art museum in Finland. The museum is currently situated on Yrjönkatu, with a subterranean annex, known as Amos Rex, built beneath

History

The museum was founded by

, the owner of the Swedish-language Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper and a patron of the arts. In 1913, Anderson commissioned architects

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and Einar Sjöström to design a building on Yrjönkatu. The building would function as both Anderson's private living quarters and office space for his businesses. After Anderson's death in 1961, the building was converted into a museum, which opened in 1965. As of early 2019,

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, a Konstsamundet financed center for

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culture, moved to the Yrjönkatu building previously used by the museum.

Collections and exhibitions

The Amos Anderson Art Museum's collections include primarily

20th-century art Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Overview Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism ( Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century ...

, with some of the oldest works originally belonging to Amos Anderson's personal collection. The museum has paintings by Francesco Bassano (''Adoration of the Magi''), Paul Signac, Louis Valtat, Roger Fry, Alfred Finch (''View of Fiesöle''),

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, Magnus Enckell,

Eero Nelimarkka Eero Aleksander Nelimarkka (10 October 1891 – 27 January 1977) was a Finnish painter. He is best known for depicting the flat landscapes of Ostrobothnia known as ''lakeus'' but he also produced portraits of notable Finns and family members ...

, Tyko Sallinen, Tove Jansson (''Fantasy''), and the Swedish painter Palm. In its acquisitions, the museum concentrates on contemporary art. The museum arranges 8–12 exhibitions a year.

References

External links

Official website
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History

Exhibitions

Massless

Amos Anderson Art Museum, 1965-2017

History

Collections and exhibitions

See also

References

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