South African National Gallery

开普敦市都会市镇、南非

资料卡

类型: 美术馆
创立: 1930 年
国家: 南非
所在地: 开普敦市都会市镇
坐标: 南纬 33.9290°，东经 18.4172°

资料来自 Wikidata Q1419469（CC0）。

博物馆介绍

伊齐科南非国家美术馆（英语：Iziko South African National Gallery）是位于开普敦的南非国家美术馆。其在2001年被纳入伊齐科博物馆群，并成为艺术与文化部的下属机构。该馆的馆藏主要包括17至19世纪的荷兰、法国和英国艺术作品。

美术馆的创建提案开始于1850年10月12日，1872年正式建馆。

迪恩·赫顿最著名的作品之一《去他的白人》（Fuck White People）曾于2017年在该馆展出。

摘自维基百科「伊齐科南非国家美术馆」，按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，繁体已转简体，去掉了参考文献、外部链接等尾部小节和表格，其余文字未作改动。

中文条目比较短，展开看英文维基百科的条目（英文原文）

The Iziko South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. It became part of the Iziko collection of museums – as managed by the Department of Arts and Culture – in 2001. It then became an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture. Its collection consists largely of Dutch, French and British works from the 17th to the 19th century. This includes lithographs, etchings and some early 20th-century British paintings. Contemporary art work displayed in the gallery is selected from many of South Africa's communities and the gallery houses an authoritative collection of sculpture and beadwork.

History

At a meeting in the Cape Town Public Library, convened on 12 October 1850, proposals were discussed to erect a building in the Company's Garden for the purpose of exhibiting art. This occasion was the inaugural meeting of the South African Fine Arts Association, founded by Thomas Butterworth Bayley and Abraham de Smidt. The Association went on to arrange the first ever exhibition of fine art in South Africa. This took place on 10 May 1851 in the school rooms in the Company's Garden in Cape Town. Its primary raison d'être remained the establishing of a permanent home for a National collection.

The National collection was founded in 1872 with a bequest of paintings from the estate of Thomas Butterworth Bayley. In 1875, the Association was able to purchase premises in the current Queen Victoria Street where the nucleus of the Art Gallery was exhibited. By the South African Art Gallery Act of 1895 the South African Government took over the collection in trust and purchased the premises from the Association for R12 000. A board of five trustees were elected in 1896 to manage the collection.

The National Gallery Act made provision for the building of new premises, but foundations were only laid in 1914. The collection was kept in a wing of the South African Museum from 1900 and the current building only officially opened to the public on 3 November 1930, by the Earl of Athlone.

Notable contributions by Dr Alfred de Pass, Hyman Liberman, Sir Abe Bailey, Sir Edmund and Lady Davis and Lady Michaelis expanded the scope of the collection over the years. In 1937, the building was expanded to accommodate purchases that included South African artists. The first pieces by South African artists, by Anton van Wouw (African Head) and Neville Lewis (Adderley Street Flower-sellers), had been purchased in 1926.

One of Dean Hutton's most well-known works is the performance and installation piece Fuck White People, which was exhibited at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 2017. The work was vandalized at the gallery by members of the Cape Independence Party. It also became the subject of a legal challenge under South Africa's Equality Act; however, the Western Cape Equality Court ruled that the work constituted protected artistic expression and did not amount to hate speech.