Art museums in San Diego a bequest collector Vance Condon got a collection of art, in which the works of Ellsworth Kelly, Oskar Kokoschka, Alexei von Jawlensky and Otto Dix, and many others

MAX PEHSHTEYN Untitled (Landscape Palau)
around 1914-1918. Oil on canvas
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private collection of art collected over 30 years, returns home to San Diego. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and the Art Museum of San Diego received a bequest of the late collector Vance Condon (Dr. Vance E. Kondon) and his wife Elizabeth Gisberger (Elisabeth Giesberger) a collection of works by German expressionists and minimalists worth about 40 million dollars.

Vance Condon was one of the leading collectors of San Diego and has always actively supported the cultural development of the city. His collection includes a variety of creative directions - from the figurative work of the first half of the twentieth century to the abstract paintings after 1950. Collector several times, became a member of the board of trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in the period 1971-1981. Condon Collection of contemporary art reflects the minimalist aesthetic, which promoted the MCASD in those days, and in our days.

went to the Museum of Modern Art 30 important works from the collection of Condon, dating back to 1950-mi - the beginning of the 1980s. These are two large white canvases of Robert Reimann (Robert Ryman), the work of Brice Marden (Brice Marden) in his recognizable style, minimalist Robert Mangold Canvas (Robert Mangold). In addition, the number of donated works are the proto-pop artovskoe creation of Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein), Franz Kline drawings (Franz Kline) and Mark Tobey (Mark Tobey), abstraction, Piero Manzoni (Piero Manzoni), Ada Dekkers (Ad Dekkers) , Christo (Christo) and Jules Olitski (Jules Olitski). California Art presents the works of Craig Kauffman (Craig Kauffman) and Ron Davis (Ron Davis). Other contemporary authors in the collection include Condon, Ben Ackerman (Ben Akkerman), Ellsworth Kelly (Ellsworth Kelly), Richard Serra (Richard Serra), Verhoev Thun (Toon Verhoef) and others.

"These museum collections are under construction here on is such a generous philanthropy," - said the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Davies. He adds that one of Reimann would be enough, but Condon went ahead and gave as many as 30 pieces.

Art Museum of San Diego received a bequest of 48 works by Condon entire German expressionists - pictures , drawings, prints. Key works include paintings, watercolors and drawings by Otto Dix (Otto Dix), Alexei von Jawlensky two paintings, four works by Gabrielle Münter (Gabriele Munter) and two drawings by Gustav Klimt (Gustav Klimt). For real discoveries are drawing by Egon Schiele (Egon Shiele) and double-sided sketch Pehshteyna Max (Max Pechstein). The collection of Condon, who joined the museum, there are also works by Max Beckmann (Max Beckmann), George Gross (George Grosz), Ernst Kirchner (Ernst Kirchner), Oskar Kokoschka (Oskar Kokoschka), and Emil Nolde (Emil Nolde).

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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