Description of the attraction
The Museum of Landscape was opened on November 14, 1997 in a house that belonged to the merchants Groshev and Podgornov before the revolution, built at the end of the 18th century. This house was depicted in their works by many landscape painters, and one of the first to paint it was II Levitan in the painting "Evening. Golden reach". 1889 g.
From its very foundation, the collection of paintings from the Plessk Museum-Reserve was completed mainly from the works of artists from Levitan's circle and those whose work was associated with their stay in Plyos.
The main theme of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Landscape is the demonstration of various directions of Russian and Soviet landscape art, the formation of the Russian landscape school, the main features of which are most vividly reflected in the work of I. I. Levitan. The exposition of the museum presents the works of artists of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries: I. I. Shishkin, A. P. Bogolyubov, N. N. Dubovskoy, A. A. Kiselev, I. I. Tvorozhnikov, N. A. Klodt, S. Yu. Zhukovsky, N. A. Sergeev, R. G. Sudkovsky, M. Kh. Aladzhalov, V. V. Perepletchikov, V. K. Byalynitsky-Birulya and others.
In the halls of the Museum of Landscape, there is an active exhibition activity. It has become traditional to hold the festival of sacred music "Golden Ples" here. Since 1999, the Interregional Exhibition of Contemporary Landscape Painting "Green Noise" has been held in the halls of the Museum of Landscape.
