Description of the attraction
Donetsk Regional Art Museum is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine, as well as the cultural center of Donetsk and the region. The museum was founded on September 23, 1939, when a portrait gallery, a large art museum, was created on the initiative of the famous artist I. Brodsky. Artists from all over the country carried out orders for the museum and presented them with their works. In 1940, more than three hundred and forty works were transferred from the funds of museums in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, including such famous artists as Repin, Aivazovsky, Vereshchagin.
During the Nazi occupation, the museum ceased to exist. After the war, the museum had to be rebuilt again, since only eleven works remained of all the wealth. Since 1960 the museum has been opened as the Stalin Art Gallery, and since 1965 it has been called the Donetsk Art Museum.
The collection of the museum was replenished with new works from the funds of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, from many republican and all-Union exhibitions. Many paintings have been donated by renowned artists and collectors.
Today, the expositions of the regional art museum have about fourteen thousand works of painting, decorative and applied art, graphics and sculpture. The permanent collection includes works by the most famous Ukrainian, Russian and foreign masters of the 16th-20th centuries.
All museum works are presented in six exhibitions: Ancient applied art. Rome. Greece (end of VI century BC - IV century AD); Ukrainian and Russian art of the 18th - 20th centuries; Western European art of the 16th - 19th centuries; Ukrainian arts and crafts; Ukrainian and Russian icon painting of the 17th - 20th centuries; Sacred arts and crafts and Ukrainian fine arts of the twentieth century.
More than thirty different exhibitions are exhibited in the halls of the museum every year.
