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Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an art museum with an unusual history. The core of its collection is made up of works by artists of the first half of the 20th century, including true masterpieces.

The museum was opened shortly after the founding of Tel Aviv, long before Israel gained independence. The entire meeting was initially located in the house of the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff.

A native of Bessarabia (Russian Empire), a Narodnik, engineer Mikhail Yakovlevich Dizengoff settled in Jaffa in 1905. In 1909, sixty-six families gathered on the coastal dunes to draw lots for land to found the first Jewish city in Palestine. One of the plots was bought by Meir and Tsina Dizengoff and built a house. Meir became the head of the municipality; when the district grew and turned into a city, he was elected mayor.

In 1930, beloved Qing died. In memory of his wife, Meir donated a family house on Rothschild Boulevard to Tel Aviv. He proposed to open an art gallery here, the basis of which will be the Dizengoff family collection. At the opening of the museum in 1932, the mayor said: "It is impossible to build houses, lay streets and improve the city without thinking about aesthetics and harmony, without instilling an aesthetic taste in the population." Sixteen years later, David Ben-Gurion chose this famous building to proclaim Israel's Declaration of Independence. At first, the parliament of the country gathered here.

Over time, the museum became cramped in this house. In 1971, most of the collection was transferred to the main building on Shaul Ha-Melekh Boulevard, designed by architects Dan Eitan and Yitzhak Yashar. Later, according to the project of the architect Preston Scott Cohen, a west wing was added, a sculpture garden was added.

The museum's collection, numbering more than 40 thousand exhibits, includes works by artists representing the art of the 20th century: impressionists, fauves, German expressionists, cubists, futurists, Russian constructivists. Here you can see paintings by Monet, Pizarro, Renoir, Cezanne, Sisley, Matisse, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Chagall, Picasso. The star of the museum is the famous "Portrait of Frederica Maria Beer" by the famous Austrian modernist Gustav Klimt.

There is a very representative department of old European masters in the museum, including 130 works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel Jr., Reynolds, Canaletto, Rigo. In 1950, the museum also acquired paintings from the collection of Peggy Guggenheim, patroness of the American abstract artist Paul Jackson Pollock. The donation included works by Pollock, Baziotis, Pusette-Dart, Tanguy, Matta, Masson.

The museum is adjoined by a sculpture garden named after the outstanding Israeli fashion designer and designer Lola Beer Abner, who at one time developed a uniform for women servicemen of the Israel Defense Forces. Here in the open air sculptures of Calder, Gucci, Maillol, Lipschitz, Karo, Graham, as well as outstanding Israeli masters - Ulman, Berg, Cohen-Levy are exhibited.

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