Walters Art Museum

Baltimore / Vereinigte Staaten

Das Walters Art Museum ist ein Kunstmuseum in Baltimore im US-Bundesstaat Maryland.

Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore / Vereinigte Staaten

Das Baltimore Museum of Art ist ein Kunstmuseum in Baltimore, das 1914 gegründet wurde. Die Sammlung des Museums umfasst 90.000 Kunstwerke, darunter Europäische und Amerikanische Kunst vom 13. Jahrhundert bis heute, sowie Kunstwerke und Objekte aus Asien, Afrika und dem präkolumbianischen Amerika. Das Baltimore Museum of Art ist zudem im Besitz der größten Kollektion von Werken von Henri Matisse. Zum Museum gehören weiterhin zwei Gärten, in denen Skulpturen aus dem 20. Jahrhundert gezeigt werden, und eine über 70.000 Bände umfassende Bibliothek.

Peale Museum

Baltimore / Vereinigte Staaten

The Peale Museum, officially the Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore, was a museum of paintings and natural history, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It occupied the first building in the Western Hemisphere to be designed and built specifically as a museum. The museum was created by Charles Willson Peale and his son Rembrandt Peale . It functioned separately as Baltimore City's historical museum while the original structure was being rebuilt, restored, and renovated in 1930–1931, and then merged with other historic sites, houses and museums in the early 1980s under the expansive efforts of a new executive director, with the name of the Baltimore City Life Museums and a broader mission in conjunction with the other historical locations/sites/structures in Baltimore. After opening a new three-story exhibition gallery, uniquely using the old cast-iron façade of the razed Fava Fruit Company and being re-assembled on the new structure facing North Front Street and the parallel new President Street boulevard , the new gallery and the B.C.L.M. ran into financial difficulties in the first year after the grand opening, coincidentally during the bicentennial celebration of Baltimore's establishment as a city. The Peale branch of the City Life Museums closed with the other branches, historic houses and sites later in 1997, after being refused a one-year extension of its five-year subsidy of about $300,000 annually by then Mayor Kurt Schmoke. Its large collections from over 66 years of original existence were disassembled, transferred and handed over to the Maryland Historical Society, founded 1844, now located on the city block on the southwest corner of West Monument Street and Park Avenue, centered in the old Enoch Pratt Mansion and adjacent research library and museum exhibition areas building. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.Today, the museum is being renovated and relaunched as the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture through a partnership between Baltimore's Department of General Services, which owns the building, and the Board of the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, a 501 tax-exempt, non-profit corporation. It is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but anticipates re-opening soon.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Baltimore / Vereinigte Staaten

The Maryland Center for History and Culture ), founded on March 1, 1844, is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage". The MCHC has a museum, library, holds educational programs, and publishes scholarly works on Maryland.

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore / Vereinigte Staaten

Die Johns Hopkins University ist eine private Universität in Baltimore im US-Bundesstaat Maryland. Die Spitzenuniversität, die Forschung und Lehre nach dem Vorbild deutscher Universitäten, insbesondere nach dem Modell der Universität Heidelberg, vereinte, wurde am 22. Februar 1876 gegründet. Ihren Namen erhielt sie von dem Geschäftsmann Johns Hopkins, der zur Gründung der Universität und des Johns Hopkins Hospital bei seinem Tod 1873 ein Erbe von sieben Millionen US-Dollar hinterließ. Insgesamt sind mit der Universität bis dato 37 Nobelpreisträger und ein Fields-Medaillen-Preisträger verbunden. Die Universität wird in den gängigen internationalen Hochschulrankings jeweils den 20 respektive 10 besten Universitäten der Welt zugerechnet und zählt zu den prestigeträchtigsten Hochschulinstitutionen des Landes.

Amalie Rothschild

Baltimore / Vereinigte Staaten

Amalie Rothschild was an American artist who lived and worked within the art community of Baltimore, Maryland. An accomplished painter and sculptor, she was also an art teacher, philanthropist, patron, and cultural advocate. Over the course of a long career, she made oil and acrylic paintings as well as drawings, watercolors, and other paper works. She also sculpted using found objects, Plexiglas, metals, and particleboard. Originally working in a realist style, she became well known for geometric abstractions based on figurative subjects. In 1993 a critic described this approach as "[walking] a tightrope between the abstract and the representational with a suggestion of three-dimensional depth." Rothschild was by choice a regional artist. Although she occasionally exhibited elsewhere, she did not actively promote her career outside a mid-Atlantic region centered on Baltimore. Thus, in 1997 a critic wrote, "Amalie Rothschild is a fixture and ornament of the Baltimore art world." At the time of her death a critic gave this career summary: "She was one of the leading artists of her time in this area. Her work is thoroughly modern and related to geometric abstraction, but without losing the figure. It has emotional reserve, often contains a hint of humor and at times recalls the childlike sagacity of the great Paul Klee."