Description of the attraction
In the central part of the city of Penza, there is a beautiful Art Nouveau building with a colored majolica panel and a tower topped with a four-sided tent. The author of the romantic architectural monument, built in 1912, is the architect A. I. von Gauguin. One of the best architectural monuments in the city once belonged to the Peasant Land Bank (until 1918), and since 1986 the building has housed the K. A. Savitsky Picture Gallery.
The Penza Picture Gallery, founded in 1892, is one of the oldest and largest galleries in the region, currently numbering more than 12 thousand exhibits. The history of the gallery began in January 1892 with the will of the former governor of the Penza region, ND Seliverstov, to transfer to the city a collection of paintings, a library and more than half a million funds for the creation of an art museum and a drawing school. Five years later, on a vacant lot behind Cathedral Square, an art school building was built with wonderful panoramas from the window to the Zasur distance. In the same building there was also an art gallery, the director of which was K. A. Savitsky. Thanks to the efforts of Konstantin Apollonovich, the collection of the museum was replenished with creations of masters of world art and leading masters of Russia. In 1955, after the reorganization of the museum, the picture gallery was named after K. A. Savitsky.
In our time, the gallery's collection consists of works of ancient Russian art, Russian art of the 18-20th centuries, Western European art, as well as works of famous Penza artists. The exposition includes: graphics, paintings, sculptures and objects of decorative and applied art. The building of the Penza Regional Art Gallery regularly hosts exhibitions and concerts of classical music.
