Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts

Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts

Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts (ROMI) is an art museum in Rostov-on-Don, founded in 1938. The collection has more than 6 thousand items.

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.

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.

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]

Basic categories

  • Old Russian art.
  • Russian art XVII - early. XX centuries.
  • Western European art of the XVII - XIX centuries.
  • Art of the East.

References

  1. ↑ Ростовский музей изобразительных искусств. — Ростов-на-Дону: 1987.
  2. ↑ "Силин Андрей Дмитриевич художник мастер экслибриса художники Дона Ростов-на-Дону". www.donvrem.dspl.ru. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  3. ↑ Еваулов Г.В., Черницына В.А. Архитектурная летопись Ростова-на-Дону. — Ростов-на-Дону, 2002.

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