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The Dnipro Art Museum () is a museum of fine arts in the city of
Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper R ...
, Ukraine. It is among the most oldest museums in all of Ukraine. About 8,500 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and decorative arts pieces from the 16th to the 21st centuries are part of the museum's collection.


History

The Katerynoslav Scientific Society took the initiative to build the museum in 1906, and donations from artists, art collectors, the
Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thr ...
, the Museum of Antiquities of Katerynoslav Gubernia, and other organizations made the museum possible. Opening in honor of
Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writ ...
's 100th birthday in April 1914, the Katerynoslav City Art Museum intended to serve as an urban community education hub in addition to being a cultural institution. The city council purchased and restored the buildings on the grounds of the City Park (now Lazar Hloba Park), to house the museum's inaugural exhibition the night before it opened. The site was further altered by other historical occurrences connected to the
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and the startling 1917–1921 period. It was housed on the second floor of Khrinnikov's residence from 1922 and 1936 (currently the hotel Ukraine). In 1937, the museum's number of operations and stock collection increased, so much so that it had to relocate to a four-story building on 21 Shevchenko Street, where it remains to this day. Owing to the museum's growing volume of operations and stock collection. The museum were closed during
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. The building held the
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technical school administration as well as history and art museum displays during the city's occupation in 1941–1943. Many of the collections have survived. However a portion of the building was destroyed when a bomb struck the house's roof from the left façade during an air raid in the summer of 1941, penetrating the upper level ceiling. The artwork ''The Secret Departure of Ivan the Terrible'', moved to the museum in 1913, was forcibly removed by the
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during their occupation. Following Dnipropetrovsk's liberation from Nazi occupation, repairs were made to the museum's grounds. As a result, the museum was able to reopen in 1947 and start hosting events. The Dnipropetrovsk Art School moved into the building after the land surveying technical school disbanded at the beginning of the 1960s. By the middle of the 1970s, the art school and the art museum were working side by side. An accidental fire that started in August 1974 completely destroying the structure from the inside out. Because they were rescued in time, the museum's exhibits escaped damage, but other wooden structures and interfloor ceilings burnt. Major renovations carried out over the course of the following four years included a thorough redesign of the interior arrangement and the function of the building. The art school relocated, and the museum reopened its doors to tourists in July 1978.


Collections

The museum is divided into two sections: Russian and Ukrainian art from the 17th and 18th centuries (portraits, iconography, folk art); and art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The landscape paintings by
Konstantin Trutovsky Konstantin Aleksandrovich Trutovsky (Ukrainian: Костянтин Олександрович Трутовській, Russian: Константин Александрович Трутовский; 9 February 1826, in Kursk – 29 March 1893, in Ya ...
,
Ivan Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized a ...
,
Konstantin Makovsky Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Константи́н Его́рович Мако́вский; (20 June o.c.) 2 July n.c. 1839 – 17 o.c. (30 n.c.) September 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the " Peredvizhnik ...
,
Ilya Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin (russian: Илья Ефимович Репин, translit=Il'ya Yefimovich Repin, p=ˈrʲepʲɪn); fi, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. He became one of the ...
, I. Shyshkin,
Kyriak Kostandi Kiriak Konstantinovich Kostandi ( uk, Киріак Костянтинович Костанді; russian: Кириак Константинович Костанди; – 31 October 1921) was a prominent Ukrainian painter and an art scholar. A m ...
,
Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan (russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; – ) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarty ...
,
Konstantin Kryzhitsky Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky (russian: Константин Яковлевич Крыжицкий, uk, Костянтин Якович Крижицький; 17 May 1858, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv, Ukraine) – 4 April 1911, Sain ...
,
Serhii Vasylkivsky Serhii Ivanovych Vasylkivsky ( uk, Сергій Іванович Васильківський, ; russian: link=no, Серге́й Иванович Васильковский; October 19, 1854, Izium — October 7, 1917, Kharkiv) was one of the mos ...
,
Mykola Pymonenko Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko ( ua, Микола Корнилович Пимоненко) 9 March 1862, , near Kyiv, Russian Empire; Kyiv.html" ;"title="ow Kyiv">ow Kyiv, Ukraine6 March 1912, Kyiv, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian realist painte ...
, and
Nikolay Samokish Mykola Semyonovich Samokish (russian: Микола Семенович Самокиш; translit.: ''Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish''; 25 October 1860, Nizhyn, Chernihiv, Russian Empire - 18 January 1944, Simferopol, USSR) was a Ukrainian and So ...
, as well as the sculptures by Vladimir Beklemishev and others are among the most valuable pieces in the museum's collection. The museum features several
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pieces by Russian painters such as Mykhailo Bozhii, Vasyl Kasiian, Ivan Znoba, and
Mykola Hlushchenko Mykola Hlushchenko ( uk, Микола Петрович Глущенко; 17 September 1901 – 31 October 1977) was a Ukrainian artist. He was a winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1972. Biography Hlushchenko was born in Novomoskov ...
. The museum now features a collection of
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and contemporary
Ukrainian art The culture of Ukraine is the composite of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people that has formed throughout the history of Ukraine. It is closely intertwined with ethnic studies about ethnic Ukrainians and Ukrainian historiog ...
, as well as art from Western Europe, Russia, and Ukraine (including icons, folk paintings, portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings). The collection's primary draw is said to be the artwork of
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-native symbolist and artist Mikhail Sapozhnikov. It received certain artwork that had been nationalized private collections and belonged to the
National Museum of the History of Ukraine The National Museum of the History of Ukraine (MIST; ''National Museum of Ukrainian History'') illustrates Ukraine's history from ancient times till nowadays. It is one of the leading museums in Ukraine. It holds about 800 000 items in its colle ...
. Both decoratively
applied art The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Unive ...
and visual art are on display at the museum. File:Pimonenko. Victime of fanatisme.jpg, '' A Victim of Fanaticism'' by
Mykola Pymonenko Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko ( ua, Микола Корнилович Пимоненко) 9 March 1862, , near Kyiv, Russian Empire; Kyiv.html" ;"title="ow Kyiv">ow Kyiv, Ukraine6 March 1912, Kyiv, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian realist painte ...
File:Bashkirtseff - In the Studio.jpg, ''In the Studio'' by
Marie Bashkirtseff Marie Bashkirtseff (born Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, russian: Мария Константиновна Башки́рцева; 1858–1884) was a Ukrainian artist from the Russian Empire who worked in Paris, France. She died aged 25. Li ...
File:Portrait of Margarita Morozova.jpg, ''
Margarita Morozova Margarita Kirillovna Morozova (née Ma′montova; Маргари′та Кири′лловна Моро′зова, November 3 .s. October 22 1873, – October 3, 1958) was a prominent Russian philanthropist, patron of arts, publisher, editor an ...
'' by
Valentin Serov Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (russian: Валенти́н Алекса́ндрович Серо́в; 19 January 1865 – 5 December 1911) was a Russian painter and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. Life and work Youth and educ ...
File:Ge The last supper study Dnepropetrovsk.jpg, ''The Last'' ''Supper'' by
Nikolai Ge Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (from his French ancestral surname "De Gay") (russian: Николай Николаевич Ге; – ) was a Russian realist painter and an early Russian symbolist. He was famous for his works on historical and religio ...
File:Kutaisova Lopukhina by Rombauer.jpg, ''Praskovya Kutaisova'' by
Johann Rombauer Johann Rombauer ( hu, Rombauer János, sk, Ján Rombauer; 28 May 1782 – 12 February 1849) was a portrait painter in the Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Kingdom of Hungary. He also worked for a time in Saint Petersburg. He was a representative ...


Gallery

File:Фрагмент інтер'єру одного з приміщень 1.jpg, Paintings on display in 2005 File:Фрагмент інтер'єру одного з приміщень 3.jpg, Interior of the museum in 2019 File:Головний вхід до приміщень музею.jpg, Main entrance to the museum in 2023 File:Меморіальна дошка М. І. Сапожникову на головному фасаді.jpg, A plaque dedicated to Mikhail Sapozhnikov in 2023


References


External links

{{Authority control 1914 establishments in Ukraine Museums established in 1914 Art museums and galleries in Ukraine Culture in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast