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In the time of 2nd World War The history the building
of Sverdlovsk Art Gallery was the place where many values of
The State Hermitage were evacuated. After the war, in 1945 Hermitage
passed several exhibits of painting, sculpture and decorative
applied art to the collection of the young Gallery. |
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history of the museum |
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1936. It was the year
of Sverdlovsk Art Gallery foundation.
In 1909 the Academy filled the funds of the Art department again and
some other pictures were got from the Ekaterinburg Association of
Amateurs of graceful Arts, which was founded in1895. In 1912 this
association organized a great exhibition of Moscow, S.-Petersburg
and Ural artists. It was an important step in the filling of the city
art collection. Some works were “The Son’s Portrait” by S. Malyutin,
The creations of L. Pasternak, L. Turzhanskiy , M. Aladzhanov and
of other great artists of Russia. On of the most productive period
of filling up the collection of the art department was the time when
Soviet power was established on the territory of the Urals and a special
commission was organized (1919-1920). Its members were the teachers
of the art-industry school S. Erzya, L. Turzhanskiy, I.Slyusarev and
the president of the Urals Society of Amateurs of from confiscated
Natural Sciences O. Clair. Their task was to choose the best from
confiscated pieces for the museum collection. If taking into account
what a difficult time was that period in the history of Russia, the
period of uncertainty during the Civil War we must say that the activity
of the commission was unforgettable help to store great art items.
Thanks to the activists scores of new pictures were add to the collection.
In April, 1924 the museum got the collection consisted of 600 masterpieces
of Russian and foreign masters. In 1926 the museum of the Society
was reorganized into the State Museum of the Urals District and at
the moment sent the petition to the National Museum Fund to get some
more art pieces to fill up the collection once again. That time a
great collection of Russian Avant-garde was brought to Sverdlovsk
under the initiative of Narkompross and became the base of new exhibition,
called “All Ways of Art”. So, the organization of Sverdlovsk Art Gallery
in 1936 made the dream to have a museum, which appeared on the edge
of centuries, become true to life. First years of the existence of
the Gallery were directed to the expansion of the collection, on one
hand, and on the other hand - to introduce different exhibitions.
In 1935 the gallery represented the exposition, called “The Urals-Kuzbass
in painting” and in 1944 one more, called “The Urals - the Center
of Gun’s Industry”, where the artists from Moscow, Cthelyabinsk, Perm,
Sverdlovsk and other cities showed their skills.
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