Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca
Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca is an art museum housed in an important Baroque building from the eighteenth century, Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, the work of the German architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann. It possesses a very valuable heritage of Romanian and European art: paintings, graphics and decorative art (15th Century - 20th Century).
History
Founded in 1951, the museum has received, since its establishment, some older funds: a small part of the collection of curiosities, cutlery, furniture and European fine art from Transylvanian Museum and especially the collection known as "Pinacoteca Virgil Cioflec".[1]
The name of Virgil Cioflec (1876 - 1948), an author of monographs dedicated to painters Stefan Luchian (1924) and Nicolae Grigorescu (1925), as well as some published writings pertinent to art, gathered a collection of great significance for the life of Cluj wars, and donated his Romanian art collection, to Cluj University (1929-1930). The opening of Virgil Cioflec Art Gallery to the public in 1933 meant, in fact, the first opening in Cluj of a Romanian modern art museum, whose successor became the National Art Museum Cluj. The Virgil Cioflec Collection still represents the core of the National Heritage Museum of Art Cluj.[1]
Since 1951, the Art Museum in Cluj houses works by artists Nicolae Grigorescu, Stefan Luchian, Dimitrie Paciurea Pallady, Camil Ressu, Vasile Popescu, all arranged over 20 rooms. The exhibition presents works by artists less known in Transylvania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, namely an important collection of works of great value belonging to the Baia Mare school of painting.[1]
Museum collection grew in the years that followed the creation of on account of transfers, donations and purchases. Works of art transferred by the Ministry of Culture, from the National Art Museum in Bucharest and Local Government (Barbu Iscovescu, Constantin David Rosenthal, Theodor Aman, George Tattarescu, George Panaitescu Bagdasar, Carol Popp de Szathmary, Ion Andreescu, Karl Storck) are added to a fund meant from Cluj branch of the Romanian Academy (1971). Including important pieces of art from Transylvania (unknown painters of the 18th Century - 19th Century, Franz Neuhauser, Joseph Neuhauser, Franz Anton Bergman, Koreh Sigismund, Szathmari Gati Sandor, Simo Ferenc), the fund has contributed substantially to shaping a physiognomy heritage.[1]
In 1990, the National Gallery was closed for reorganization, imposed by the degraded condition of the building, and the need to organize continuous exposure to the new research, and purchased or donated pieces in the immediately preceding period. The National Gallery reopened to the public in January 1996, proposes a synthesis of four centuries of Romanian art with an emphasis on artistic phenomenon in Transylvania: Altar Jimbor (sixteenth century), painting Biedermeier art style 1900s, avant-garde artists linked to the Higher School of Fine Arts and Artistic Center Cluj: Alexander Popp, Szolnay Sandor, Pericles Capidan, Catullus Bogdan Aurel slippers, Rum Ladea, Petre Abrudan, Tasso Marchini, Alexander Mohy, Szervatius Jeno, Theodor Harsha, Kovaks Zoltan Nagy Albert Anton Lazarus Fulicea Virgil, Constantin Dinu Ilea, John Sima, Egon Mark or knock.[1]
In 1997, the Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca was nominated for the European Museum of EMYA.
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 Ghidul Muzeelor Archived June 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine., cimec.ro
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Romanian Wikipedia.
Coordinates: 46°46′14″N 23°35′27″E / 46.7706°N 23.5908°E