Description of the attraction
The luxurious Ryumin Palace, built at the beginning of the 20th century with funds from Gabriel Ryumin, the heir to a wealthy Russian landowner who chose Switzerland as his new homeland, houses several museums. One of them is the Art Gallery, which was founded in 1841 by the artist Marc-Louis Arlau. Her collections are based on the collection of the local watercolorist Abraham-Louis-Rudolph Ducros. In 1808, he wanted to create an art school, where, as educational exhibits, there would be a selection of paintings by Italian painters of the 17th-18th centuries and his own watercolors. Ducros died and did not fulfill his dream. In 1816, his collection was acquired by the canton.
Currently, there are about 10 thousand exhibits in the depositories of the Museum of Fine Arts. Some of them were purchased, some were donated, and the rest are the property of various organizations and foundations that allow the museum to show them to the general public. Part of the collection of the Lausanne Art Gallery is dedicated to the art of Ancient Egypt. But most of the paintings presented here date from the 15th-20th centuries and belong to the brushes of famous European and local painters.
Of particular admiration are works in the styles of Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Tachism, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, etc. Among the most valuable exhibits are works by Marcel Brodhars, Geula Dagan, Rolf Isel, Tadeusz Kantor, Charles Roller, Daniel Sperry and Maria Elena Vieira da Silva … The Lausanne Art Gallery is one of the most interesting museums in the city.
