Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan
Art museum, Uzbek art, Western art, Russian art in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston Davlat Sanʼat muzeyi) is the largest state art museum in Uzbekistan.[1][2] Its permanent collection contains more than several thousands works, divided among four curatorial departments. The museum was established in 1918 as a Museum of People University and renamed as a Central Arts Museum later. It was named as the Tashkent Art Museum in 1924 and finally the Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan in 1935.[3]
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| Location | 16, Amir Temur Avenue, Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, 100060 |
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| Type | Art museum, Uzbek art, Western art, Russian art |
| Director | Fayziyeva Vasila |
| Website | www |
The museum was established in 1918 and was located in former palace of Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia until 1935. It was moved to the People's House in 1935. In 1974, the People's House building was demolished and replaced by the current building.[4]
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Three Soviet architects Abdulov, Nikiforov and Rosenblum designed the new building of museum in the form of a huge cube, with all sides separated into even metal squares, lined with aluminum sheets on the outside. The lower part of the building and the entrance are decorated with polished gray marble. The upper part is glazed with chrom-brugnatellite, smoothing the sunlight and setting indoor matte illumination.[5]
The initial collection of the museum consisted of a hundred works of art from Grand Duke Nicholas and other private collections, nationalized in April 1918. Those were mostly paintings and drawings by Russian and Western European masters, sculptures, furniture and porcelain. Immediately after establishing the museum, its collection was enlarged with works from the collection of the Turkestan local history museum. Some works were transferred from museum collections in Moscow and Leningrad - for example, in 1920–1924 the museum received 116 works of Russian art from the 18th to 20th centuries, among them portraits by Vladimir Borovikovsky, Tropinin, Karl Bryullov, Yaroshenko, Repin and many others. The museum also purchased about 250 paintings of pre-revolutionary artists who were active in Central Asia: Igor Kazakov, Nikolay Karazin, Sommer. From the second half of the 1930s, the museum's collection was expanded mostly with works by Uzbekistani artists, including works of Usto Mumin, Pavel Benkov and Leo Bure.[6]
In addition to its permanent collection, the museum holds exhibitions of Uzbek and international artists.[7]
Museum Collections are divided into four departments: National applied art of Uzbekistan, Fine arts of Uzbekistan, Russian and Western art, and Far East art.[8]
The museum’s chief curator, Mirfayz Usmonov was caught in 2014 selling artworks in the black market for the past 15 years and replacing them with copies. He was prosecuted and sentenced to nine years in jail. Two other museum employees were sentenced to eight years each.[9]
Andrei Belloli «Bather»
Dmitry Levitsky «Portrait of A. Voronzova»
Nikolay Karazin «Falcon hunt»
David Teniers the Younger Monkey barbers. 1659.
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Vladimir Borovikovsky «Portrait of A. Volkonsky»
Vasily Tropinin «Portrait of A. Obolensky»
Nikolay Yaroshenko «Expulsion»
Cornelis Saftleven. Peasantry
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