I
am finding Bucharest a city of unique 19th and 20th century
architecture and a city with a great collection of superb art galleries – making
my stay here quite exhausting as I stagger from exciting gallery to the next with the odd day off in between …
Today
I’ll take you to the The Museum of Romanian Art Collections and share with you just a few of the thousands of paintings on show. This gallery is a
branch of the National Museum of Art of Romania and is situated in the Romanit
Palace ( which dates back to the early 1800s ). The museum opened in
June 2013.
The
museum contains 44 collections donated to the Romanian State beginning in
1927 by the families of: Hurmuz Aznavorian, Dumitru and Maria Ştefănescu,
Josefina and Eugen Taru, Emanoil Romulus Anca and Ortansa Dinulescu Anca,
Garabet Avakian, Mircea Petrescu and Artemiza Petrescu, Sandu Lieblich, Sică
Alexandrescu, Clara and Anatol E. Baconsky, Sorin Schächter, Céline Emilian,
Marcu Beza – Hortensia and Vasile Beza, Alexandra and Barbu Slătineanu,
Béatrice and Hrandt Avakian.
The
Museum covers three floors in three wings of the Palace – yes a lot of walking –
and the exhibitions are not chronologically curated, but rather as collections … and in this post I am just listing the names of the artists - not titles etc ...
detail ...
detail ...
Corneliu Baba - 1906-1977
Corneliu Baba
Corneliu Baba
Corneliu Baba
Alexandru Phoebus - 1899-1954
Alexandru Phoebus
Alexandru Phoebus
Alexandru Phoebus
"Eddie Everywhere"
can't resist a selfie in a mirror ...
Alexandru Phoebus
Gheorghe Petrascu - 1872-1949
Francisc Sirato - 1877-1953
Stephan Lucian - 1868-1916
Nicolae Grigorescu - 1838-1907
detail ...
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu
Francisc Sirato
Nicolae Grigorescu
Deft vase - late 19th C
Nicolae Vermont - 1886-1936
Alexandru Ciucurencu - 1903-1977
Radu Dragoescu - 1914-1999
Nicolae Grigorescu
Dem. Iordache - 1905-1983
Nicolae Grigorescu
Max W Arnold - 1897-1946
Magdalena Radulescu - 1902-1983
Alexandru Padina - 1904-1992
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu
George Dimetrescu Mirea - 1854-1934
Costin Petrescu - 1871-1954
Louise Perman - 1863-1921
Ludwig Adam Kunz - 1857-1929
detail ...
Antonio Rosetti - 1750-1792
The
museum basement hosts stone carved items of old Romanian art, among which are a
few pieces extracted from Văcărești Monastery, demolished in 1986 at Nicolae
Ceausescu's order.
The
original portion of Romanit Palace was erected for the early 19th-century
Romanian aristocrat C. Faca. Faca died before it was completed, and it was sold
to a Greek named Romanit. The Romanian writer Ion Ghica (1816-1897) wrote about
the luxurious interior in his memoir: "... the walls of all the chambers
stuccoed, imitating the rarest and most beautiful marble, the ceilings of a rare
wealth and taste... The chambers all winter bedding with rich carpets from
Usack and Agem and in summer with fine mats from India; coverings and thick
silk curtains from Damascus and Aleppo. Chairs and sofas, all mahogany and
ebony, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and gilded bronze figures dressed in
Cordova leather. In all the chambers, chandeliers hung from ceilings with
garlands between doors and windows, all of Venetian crystal."
After
Romanit died in 1834, the building was rented 1834-1842 by Prince Alexandru II
Ghica, who established a chancery there, where people could come to register
complaints. In 1836, the building was purchased by the State, used first as an
administrative office for the Court but in the second half of the 19th century
as the seat of the Ministry of Finance. As the Ministry came to need more
space, the two wings were added, leading to the 'U' shape of the building
today.
In
my next post I’m off to visit one of my favourite haunts …
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