About the museum
Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts as an independent institution since 1938. [1] The collection of the museum includes about 6000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, and arts and crafts. The permanent exposition presents ancient Russian art, the art of the 18th to early 20th centuries, in Russia, foreign art of Western European masters and countries of the East. In the collection of art of the 20th century is represented by the works of Boris Lavrenko, Alexander Laktionov, Martiros Saryan, Nikolai Timkov. Works of artists of Don are also exhibited.
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov Александр Иванович Лактионов was a Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was popular, but courted controversy among art critics and other artists.
Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting.
The area of the organization's exposition space are - exhibition space - 3938 m ², temporary exhibitions - 859 m ², collection storage - 2245 m ². The number of employees is 57, of which 19 are techical. In the organization there is a scientific library,and restoration workshops.
History
The opening of the museum took place in 1938, but the formation of the collection has a longer history. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the Rostov-Nakhichevan Society of Fine Arts was established in Rostov-on-Don, for exhibitions of artists from different cities of Russia, and later included in private collections of local patrons who founded the museum after the revolution.
On May 1, 1920, the museum was founded as the Don Regional Museum of Art and Antiquities, since 1927 - as part of the regional museum of the peoples of the North Caucasus. In 1934-1936, the museum did not function, and since 1937 it was a department of the Rostov Regional Museum of Local History.
The founders of the museum were the artists M. S. Saryan and A. D. Silin, [2] the writer MA Shaginyan. Since the first years of its existence, the museum has also been refreshed with exhibits from the central museums of the country - the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, the Russian Museum.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.
The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, Saint Catherine's Day. It has been open to the public since 1852.
The State Russian Museum, formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, located on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest museums in the country.
In January 1942 the collection was evacuated to Pyatigorsk, where it was looted by German troops. During the post-war years, some of the stolen paintings were gradually returned to the museum, but the entire pre-war collection was never recovered. The museum was reopened in June 1946 in the rooms of the Rostov Art College named after M.B. Grekov.
Since 1958 the museum also occupies the mansion of the famous lawyer AP Petrov, built in 1898 by the architect N.A. Doroshenko (the mansion was nationalized in 1920). [3]
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