Description of the attraction
The National Gallery of the Komi Republic is the only art museum in Komi that stores in its funds about 7000 works of art of the 17th - early 21st centuries. At present, the structure of the collection consists of the main sections: Christian art, Russian art of the 17th - early 20th centuries, Russian art of the 20th century, foreign art of the 17th - early 20th centuries and the fine arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The section dedicated to Christian art includes about 150 icon-painting works, copper casting, wood sculptures of the 17th - early 20th centuries. It is based on the personal collection of the ethnographer, scientist-researcher of the Old Believers Yu. V. Gagarin, who determined the further line of manning the division with monuments telling about the culture of the Old Believers.
The section of Russian art of the 18th - early 20th centuries consists of more than two hundred works of painting, graphics, arts and crafts and sculpture. The so-called "royal portraits", the chamber portrait (L. S. Miropolsky), the early "genre" (V. Tropinin, I. Tupylev, V. Lobov), landscape artists of the academic school (I. Ivanov, M. Vorobiev, I. Aivazovsky, A. Zhamet and others). The art of the second half of the 19th century is represented mainly by landscapes, as well as genre works and portraits of the Itinerants (A. Kuindzhi, S. Ivanov, F. Zhuravlev, I. Pryanishnikov, A. Ryabushkin, V. Makovsky, I. Shishkin, L. Kamenev, A. Savrasov, I. Levitan and others). The art of the late XIX - early XX centuries can be seen on the canvases of P. Petrovichev, M. Pyrin, D. Shcherbinovsky, P. Kuznetsov, M. Shemyakin, A. Rylov, F. Botkin and others.
In addition, this section contains a small collection of original and printed graphics, which presents the work of E. Boehm, A. Bogolyubov, S. Vasilkovsky, L. Brailovsky, N. Karazin, M. Germashev and others.
Decorative and applied art is reflected in a small collection of products of Russian porcelain manufactures at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries (Popov, Gardner Plants, M. S. Kuznetsov's Partnership).
The sculpture is represented by compositions of household themes by E. Lancere, portrait work of I. Gintsburg, M. Dillon, M. Antokolsky, animalistic figurines of A. Val, A. Ober.
The next section is devoted to the art of Russia of the XX century, which includes works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative and applied art. The structure of the section includes a small but bright collection, consisting of works by avant-garde artists of the 1910-1920s: A. Morgunov, M. Matyushin, V. Chekrygin, I. Medunetsky, G. Lazarev and others.
The collection of Russian art of the 20th century is represented by the names of such outstanding painters, sculptors, and graphic artists as K. Istomin, A. Kuprin, D. Lopatnikov, R. Falk, M. Nedbailo, A. Tyshler, A. Lebedev-Shuisky, D. Mitrokhin, V. Favorsky, A. Kravchenko, B. Shcherbakov, V. Oreshnikov, L. Brodskaya, L. Kerbel, V. Stozharov, N. Romadin, A. Gritsai and others.
The variety and complexity of artistic phenomena of the 70-90s of the XX century are reflected in the paintings of V. Tyulenev, O. Filatchev, V. Rakhina, G. Egoshin, E. Romanova, N. Nesterova and others. The collection of masters of the North-West region of the Russian Federation, representing V. Korbakov, S. Yuntunen, T. Yufu, A. Panteleev, L. Lankinen, B. Pomortsev, etc. is of considerable artistic significance.
Products of folk arts and crafts of our country are presented in the collection of modern decorative and applied art. Here are exhibited: clay toys by Filimonov, Dymkov, Kargopol, faience and Gzhel porcelain, artistic varnishes from Mstera, Palekh, Fedoskino, Vologda lace, Zhostov's trays.
A small section of foreign art consists of works by masters of art schools in Italy, Holland, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, America of the 17th - early 20th centuries. The composition of this section is diverse, but mainly it is a watercolor and picturesque landscape of the 19th century.
Foreign decorative and applied art is characterized by single, but striking exhibits of the leading European porcelain manufactures of the 18th - early 20th centuries (Vienna and Meissen porcelain manufactories, Copenhagen porcelain factory, etc.), Japanese and Chinese porcelain vessels of the 18th-19th centuries, as well as single items French bronze and glass of the 19th century.
To date, the art section of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the most numerous and complete. It presents works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative and applied art, created during the 10-90s of the XX century. The peculiarity of the section is the monographic collections of N. Zhilin, V. Polyakov, N. Lemzakov, S. Dobryakov, A. Kochev, S. Torlopov and others.
The fund of folk and decorative-applied arts is represented by carving and painting on wood, suede, fur, birch bark, bone carving, weaving, embroidery, lace-making, and clay toys. Here visitors will see the works of S. Overin, M. Kochev, L. Ageev, L. Fialkova, V. Toropov and others.
The National Gallery of the Komi Republic is equipped with a library, the book fund of which numbers about 8000 publications.
