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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware. Winterthur houses one of the richest collections of Americana in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum and estate were the home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur's founder and a prominent antiques collector and horticulturist.
Carl Larsson: "Christmas Morning" (1894) Ljusstaken on table on right rear of this painting The term ljuskrona was used in the US to describe both ljuskrona (lit. "light crowns", chandeliers ) and ljusstaken (lit. “light stakes”, candelabras ) even though, technically, one is a ceiling-mounted light fixture and the other a standing light ...
The Kunst Museum Winterthur (The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local Kunstverein.From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on contemporary art – first Impressionism, then Post-Impressionism and especially Les Nabis, through post-World War II and recently created works by Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz and ...
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (Winterthur, Delaware) Charles Frederick Hummel Jr. (born 1932) is a retired American curator, author, and educator who worked at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library from 1955 to 1991, concluding his career as senior deputy director for museum and library.
In 1957, the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library acquired tools, equipment, furnishings, and fittings from the Dominy shops. Reconstructions of the shops have been on display at Winterthur since 1960. [3] Winterthur curator Charles F. Hummel wrote an influential book on the Dominy craftsmen in 1968. [10]
Founding curator of the Winterthur Museum Joseph Downs (July 24, 1895 – September 8, 1954) was an American museum curator and scholar of American decorative arts . After 17 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Downs became founding curator of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library from 1949 to 1954.
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Fotomuseum Winterthur is an art gallery for photography by contemporary photographers and artists; a traditional museum for works by 19th and 20th century masters; and a cultural-historical, sociological museum of applied photography in the fields of industry, architecture, fashion, etc. (with exhibitions on police photography, industrial ...