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The building of the museum, Voyevodin st. 5 |
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The building of the museum, Vayner st. 11 |
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Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts is one of the biggest Art museums
in the Urals. It always develops, add its collections and tell people
about the art life of their mother land.
The main building of the museum is
located in a very beautiful and picturesque place in the city: Historical
Square. The funds of the museum take the area of two buildings: the
first is on Voyevodin, 5 - The structure reconstructed in 1985 from
the building of 18th century, and the second is on Vayner st.11 -
previously the shop of Ekaterinburg Merchant, designed in 1914 by
Mr. Bobykin K.T.
Our museum is famous with a unique
collection of Kasli cast-iron moulding and ,especially, with Kasli
cast iron Pavilion. But besides the pavilion the museum has got quite
a number of real masterpieces of Russian, West Europe, applied and
modern Arts. The department of Russian Painting’s got a big and constantly
replenishing collection of icons, referring to 16-19th centuries.
It is 700 items. Russian Art of the 2nd part of 18th - 1st quarter
of 19th is introduced by the works of F. Rokotov, D. Levitzkiy,
V. Borovikovskiy, V. Tropinin, K. Brullov,
A. Venitsianov, I. Aivazovskiy. The Art of
the 2nd part of 18th century is represented by so called artists-peredvizhniks
V. Perov, I. Kramskoy, G. Myasoyedov.
The end of 19th c. was the top of Russian painting and the time of
creation of different art associations. The museum has several pictures
of the Association “The World of Art” created by A. Benua,
S. Sudeykin . Significant part of the collection of West
Europe Art contents the pictures of Italian artists of 14-19th cc.
Besides the drawings from France , Holland, Germany. The collection
of Russian Avant-garde of 1910-1920 is the property of the museum.
At the exposition on Vayner st. The pictures of K. Malevitch,
V. Kandinskiy, M. Larionov, N. Goncharova,
I. Mashkov Are represented as well.
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