Fine Arts Museum Kharkiv

The Kharkiv Art Museum is one of the largest collections of fine and applied arts in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a state museum. History The Kharkiv Art Museum was founded in 1905 and was originally called the City Art and Industry Museum. The Kharkiv historian Dmytro Bahalii headed the commission for completing the new museum. In 1907, at the personal request of Bahalii, Ilya Repin donated to the museum his portrait of General Mikhail Dragomirov. In 1920 the museum was named the Church-Historical Museum. Its collection consisted of artworks from the Kharkiv and Volyn diocesan repositories and the collection of Kharkiv University. In 1922, it was transformed. Building The building of the Kharkiv Art Museum The building of the Kharkiv Art Museum is located at the address: Zhon Myronosyts Street [ uk ], 11. It was built in 1912 according to the design of the Ukrainian architect and academician Oleksiy Beketov for the industrialist I. E. Ignatishchev, the owner of the Kharkiv Ivanovo brewery. The building is designed in a Neoclassicism style with Baroque and Art Nouveau elements. After the October Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power in Kharkiv, the residence was nationalized, and from 1922. Collection Currently, works of pre-revolutionary Russian and Ukrainian art, art of the Soviet period, Western European art and arts and crafts of the 16th–20th centuries are exhibited in 25 halls of the Kharkiv Art Museum. The collection includes works by prominent Russian painters Karl Bryullov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Surikov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Dmitry Levitzky, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Victor Borisov-Musatov and others. The Kharkiv Art Museum also houses the largest collection of works by Ilya Repin in Ukraine – 11 paintings (among them the famous Reply.