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A Hidden Treasure

ART FROM THE WERNER VILLA
Gothenburg Museum of Art
7 September – 17 November 2013

The exhibition A HIDDEN TREASURE – ART FROM THE WERNER VILLA was the first ever public presentation of about 50 artworks from a donation from one of Gothenburg’s most prominent private collections. The businessman Gustaf Werner´s private art collection, housed in his villa on Parkgatan 25 in Gothenburg, has belonged to the City of Gothenburg since 1958. The collection, a bequest comprising 128 works, has now been transferred to the Gothenburg Museum of Art and is a considerable and significant addition to the museum´s collections. All of the works in the Werner collection is presented in this web exhibition.

The businessman and textiles manufacturer Gustaf Werner (1859-1948) was one of Gothenburg’s most generous benefactors. The Gothenburg Museum of Art as well as the City of Gothenburg, the School of Business, the Music Academy and the theatres of Gothenburg received substantial donations. For the last 30 years of his life, he lived in the Werner Villa. Designed by architect Adrian Peterson and erected by Carl and Emma Wijk in 1889, it is one of Gothenburg’s most extravagant 19th century villas. Gustaf Werner, who moved into the magnificent edifice in 1915, was, in addition to being a generous benefactor, a passionate art collector who filled his home with art. Since the end of the 1950s, the villa and the art collection have belonged to the City of Gothenburg. But it is not until 2013, when the collection was transferred to the Gothenburg Museum of Art that this hidden treasure could be displayed to the public.

The Gothenburg Museum of Art’s collections already comprised 64 works donated by Gustaf Werner. Together with the works added from the private collection, it makes Werner one of the single most important benefactors in the history of the museum. His first donation to the Gothenburg Museum of Art was the acquisition of Rembrandt’s The Knight with the Falcon in 1921. It was, as the then museum director Axel Romdahl put it, “... the beginning of a twenty-year slap-up feast.” The collaboration with Gustaf Werner enabled the Gothenburg Museum of Art to expand its collections with primarily international art of the highest quality. In the 1920s and 1930s, Werner donated to the museum a great number of paintings by Flemish, French, Dutch and Italian masters. Paris Bordone’s Jupiter and Io, Jacob Jordaen’s The Satyr and the Peasant, Claude Monet’s Village Street Vétheuil, Paul Cézanne’s Avenue and Henri Rousseau’s Landscape with Water mill are some of the important works in the collection donated by Gustaf Werner. They are on display in the museum’s permanent exhibitions on floors 5 and 6.

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