Description of the attraction
Exposition of the Mariupol Art Museum named after A. I. Kuindzhi - a branch of the Museum of Local Lore - illuminates the life and work of the famous Mariupol artist Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi and demonstrates works of art created by Ukrainian masters of painting of the 20th century.
The decision to establish the Art Museum. Kuindzhi A. I. was postponed from year to year throughout the 20th century. And the idea of opening it appeared when, in mid-1914, a letter came to the Mariupol City Duma, in which the Moscow branch of the Society of Artists. Kuindzhi A. I. offered the city ten paintings by the renowned master. However, there was no room for placing paintings in the city at that time.
Wars passed, governments changed, but the museum remained in the plans. And only in October 2010, a century after the death of the great painter Kuindzhi Arkhip Ivanovich, the doors of the art museum named after him opened in his hometown.
The building where the museum is located is a mansion built in 1902 in the Northern Art Nouveau style. As a result of nationalization, the building was given over to the library, later - the Historical Archive of the Party. During the Patriotic War, the mansion was partially destroyed, and after that it was restored and in 1997 transferred to the municipal property of the city local history museum as a branch. The art collection of the museum numbers about 2,000 exhibits, including graphic works, paintings, decorative and applied arts and sculptures.
