Regional Art Gallery named after K. A. Savitsky description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Penza (Topic)

Regional Art Gallery named after KA Savitsky description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Penza. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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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, formed in 1892 year, is one of the oldest and largest galleries in the region, now numbering more than 12 thousand items. The history of the gallery began in January 1892 with the will of the former governor of the Penza region N.D. Seliverstov about transferring a collection of paintings to the city, libraries 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, a building of an art school 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 art 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 18-20 centuries, Western European art, as well as works of famous Penza artists ... The exposition includes: graphics, painting, sculptures and objects of decorative and applied art. The building of the Penza Regional Art Gallery regularly hosts exhibitions and concerts of classical music.

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