Chuvash State Art Museum, Cheboksary, Chuvashia, Russia
The Chuvash State Art Museum is the largest cultural center of the Chuvash Republic. The museum has a large collection of works of Russian and foreign art. There are exhibitions, excursions, lectures, meetings with creative intelligentsia, presentations, concerts. In 1939, the Chuvash State Art Gallery was established, separated from the Department of Fine Arts Museum of the Local Lore Museum. The basis of its funds were 293 works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts of artists of Chuvashia, Russian and Soviet masters. This event was timed to coincide with the opening of the exhibition at the then inactive Vvedensky Cathedral . By the end of 1939 the collection of the art gallery numbered 1036 units. storage.
With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the funds of the gallery were mothballed. For about three years they were kept in the Assumption Church , but the gallery continued to work, holding exhibitions of local and evacuated artists in parks, the Rodina cinema, the House of the Red Army, and the theater. The gallery reopened for visitors on September 1, 1944 in the former house of Bona (Talantsev) . In 1972, the Art Gallery handed over the former mansion of F.P. Efremova . This building even today looks interesting from all its four facades. Different sizes, round and semicircular in shape, do not look anachronistic. Piers with filled niches enliven the plane of the walls. And now the cornice and roof bends are beautiful. This spirituality animates the parapet, slightly pushed into space.
In the 1980s. expeditions to Chuvashia, regions of compact living of Chuvashes, initiated the collection of Chuvash folk art. Studies of Chuvash folk art, ornament, and costume began to be carried out.
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