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Maurice Allemand, Or How Modern Art Came To Saint-Étienne (1947-1966)
The chronological itinerary of the exhibition follows the transformations carried out by Maurice Allemand, highlighting the major exhibitions he organised. More than two hundred works to discover, certain of which have not been displayed for over twenty years!
Maurice Allemand, director of the musée d’Art et d’Industrie of Saint-Étienne from 1947 to 1966, laid the foundations of the exceptional collection of modern art at the MAMC+ after the Second World War. At the time the Museum of Art and Industry was the only museum in Saint-Étienne. Its collection of art is now hosted at the MAMC+, the first museum of modern art created in the regions, in 1987.
The founding of the premises and its collections is retraced by means of largely unreleased archives.It gives another way of understanding the foundations of the collection and to rediscover, alongside the masterpieces, the works of artists little known today. Maurice Allemand inspires a major cultural adventure in Saint-Étienne. While building up the collections of ancient art arms and textiles he invents the conditions for a courageous and refined diffusion of modern art. He organizes landmark exhibitions, devoted for example to African art, abstract art, collage and assembling.
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The chronological itinerary of the exhibition follows the transformations carried out by Maurice Allemand, highlighting the major exhibitions he organised. More than two hundred works to discover, certain of which have not been displayed for over twenty years!
Maurice Allemand, director of the musée d’Art et d’Industrie of Saint-Étienne from 1947 to 1966, laid the foundations of the exceptional collection of modern art at the MAMC+ after the Second World War. At the time the Museum of Art and Industry was the only museum in Saint-Étienne. Its collection of art is now hosted at the MAMC+, the first museum of modern art created in the regions, in 1987.
The founding of the premises and its collections is retraced by means of largely unreleased archives.It gives another way of understanding the foundations of the collection and to rediscover, alongside the masterpieces, the works of artists little known today. Maurice Allemand inspires a major cultural adventure in Saint-Étienne. While building up the collections of ancient art arms and textiles he invents the conditions for a courageous and refined diffusion of modern art. He organizes landmark exhibitions, devoted for example to African art, abstract art, collage and assembling.
Artists on show
- Albert Gleizes
- Alexander Calder
- Alicia Penalba
- André Bloc
- André Fougeron
- Anne Dangar
- Aurélie Nemours
- Bram van Velde
- Carmelo Arden Quin
- Enrico Baj
- František Kupka
- Gaston Chaissac
- Georges Papazoff
- Gino Severini
- Henri Nouveau
- Jean Arp
- Jean Gorin
- Lajos Kassák
- Le Corbusier
- Léon Tutundjian
- Léopold Survage
- Louise Nevelson
- Marcelle Cahn
- Marino di Teana
- Marta Pan
- Michel Seuphor
- Otto Freundlich
- Pablo Picasso
- Paule Vézelay
- Philippe Hiquily
- Raoul Hausmann
- Robert Jacobsen
- Sonia Delaunay
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
- Vera Pagava
- Victor Brauner
- Victor Vasarely
- Will Faber
- Zoran Mušič
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