Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear (Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art) is a museum located in Cáceres, Spain. It is renowned for its extensive collection of contemporary art, and was established by Helga de Alvear, a German-born art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, who was instrumental in promoting contemporary art in Spain.
Collection
[edit]The museum was established in 2010 as the Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear but reopened in its current form in a modernist building designed by Emilio Tuñón in February 2021.[1] The museum contains a collection of over 3000 pieces of art,[2] including paintings, sculptures, videos, photography, installation, and new media, with works by people such as Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra, and Eduardo Chillida.
References
[edit]- ^ "Así es el Museo Helga de Alvear" (in Spanish). Hoyesarte. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
- ^ "Helga de Alvear abre su museo en Cáceres, la mayor colección privada expuesta en Europa" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 24 February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
External links
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- Official website (in Spanish)
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