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The Ohara Museum of Art (大原美術館, Ōhara Bijutsukan) in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection.

Ohara Museum of Art

Ōhara Art Museum
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Location	Kurashiki, Japan
Coordinates	34°35′46.14″N 133°46′14.41″E

The basis of the collection was formed by Ōhara Magosaburō on the advice of the Japanese painter Kojima Torajirō (1881–1929) and the French artist Edmond Aman-Jean (1860–1935).

In 1961 a wing was added for acquired Japanese paintings of the first half of the 20th century: Fujishima Takeji, Aoki Shigeru, Kishida Ryūsei, Koide Tarushige and others. In the same year, a wing for potteries of Kawai Kanjirō, Bernard Leach, Hamada Shōji, Tomimoto Kenkichi and others was opened. 1963 a wing was added for the woodcuts of Munakata Shikō and dyeings of Serisawa Keisuke. Today the last two wings are combined as Crafts Wing (Kōgei-kan). 1972 the Kojima Torajirō Memorial Hall was opened at the Ivory Square of Kurashiki.

Selected collection highlights

• 
  Camille Pissarro
• 
  Claude Monet
• 
  El Greco
• 
  Paul Signac

Selected artists

• El Greco (Annunciation)
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
• Camille Pissarro
• Edgar Degas
• Claude Monet (Water Lilies)
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Paul Gauguin
• Giovanni Segantini
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Amedeo Clemente Modigliani
• Pablo Picasso
• Jackson Pollock
• Maurice Utrillo
• Giorgio de Chirico
• Georges Rouault
• Henri Matisse
• Pierre Bonnard
• Jasper Johns
• Auguste Rodin
• Narashige Koide
• Yuzo Saeki
• Fujishima Takeji
• Ryuzaburo Umehara
• Sōtarō Yasui
• Shikō Munakata
• Tadanori Yokoo

Access

• Public Transportation

Take Sanyo Shinkansen to Okayama Station. Change to Sanyo Line to Kurashiki Station. The museum is about 15-20 min walk.

External links

• Official website
• Virtual tour of the Ohara Museum of Art provided by Google Arts & Culture
• Media related to Ohara Museum of Art at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Ōhara-Kunstmuseum

Das Ōhara-Kunstmuseum (japanisch 大原美術館, Ōhara Bijutsukan) in Kurashiki (Präfektur Okayama) war das erste Museum in Japan, das sich nahezu ausschließlich mit französischer Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts befasste. Nach verschiedenen Erweiterungen besitzt das Museum auch wichtige Sammlungen moderner japanischer Kunst.

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- [en] Ohara Museum of Art

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[es] Museo de arte Ohara

El Museo de Arte Ohara se encuentra en la ciudad japonesa de Kurashiki y contiene una colección permanente del arte occidental en el país nipón. Inaugurado en 1930, la obra del museo está compuesta casi en su totalidad por pinturas y esculturas francesas de los siglos XIX y XX y artistas japoneses contemporáneos.[1]

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[fr] Musée d'Art Ōhara

Le musée d'Art Ohara à Kurashiki est la première collection d'art occidental en exposition permanente au Japon. Ouvert en 1930, le musée à l'origine se compose presque entièrement de peintures et sculptures françaises des XIXe et XXe siècles. La collection s'est à présent développée et comprend des peintures de la renaissance italienne ainsi que des écoles hollandaises et flamandes du XVIIe siècle.

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