National Museum of Fine Arts, Chişinău
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The National Museum of Fine Arts is a museum in Chişinău
, Moldova
, founded in November 1939 by Alexandru Plămădeală
and Auguste Baillayre
.
selects some 160 works of Bassarabian and Romania
n artists in order to set up the first Picture Gallery of Chişinău whose director was Auguste Baillayre
, painter and professor at Ecolle de Belle Arte of Chişinău. The first museum of Bassarabian fine art was opened on on November 26, 1939; its successor becomes National Art Museum of Moldova. In the first days of war the art pieces displayed in the Gallery, together with others donated by the Ministry of Culture and Cults of Romania were loaded into two lorries and delivered to Kharkiv
; the destiny of these collections remains unknown until present.
The building of the museum (architect Alexander Bernardazzi
) is a monument in Moldova.
Chisinau
Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...
, Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
, founded in November 1939 by Alexandru Plămădeală
Alexandru Plamadeala
Alexandru Plamădeală was a Moldovan sculptor. He was the artist responsible for the creation of the Stephen the Great Monument in Chişinău .He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture....
and Auguste Baillayre
Auguste Baillayre
Auguste Baillayre was a painter from France. He was a professor at Ecolle de Belle Arte of Chişinău and the first director of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Chişinău.-Biography:...
.
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In 1939 the sculptor Alexandru PlămădealăAlexandru Plamadeala
Alexandru Plamădeală was a Moldovan sculptor. He was the artist responsible for the creation of the Stephen the Great Monument in Chişinău .He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture....
selects some 160 works of Bassarabian and Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n artists in order to set up the first Picture Gallery of Chişinău whose director was Auguste Baillayre
Auguste Baillayre
Auguste Baillayre was a painter from France. He was a professor at Ecolle de Belle Arte of Chişinău and the first director of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Chişinău.-Biography:...
, painter and professor at Ecolle de Belle Arte of Chişinău. The first museum of Bassarabian fine art was opened on on November 26, 1939; its successor becomes National Art Museum of Moldova. In the first days of war the art pieces displayed in the Gallery, together with others donated by the Ministry of Culture and Cults of Romania were loaded into two lorries and delivered to Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
; the destiny of these collections remains unknown until present.
The building of the museum (architect Alexander Bernardazzi
Alexander Bernardazzi
Aleksander Osipovich Bernardazzi was a Russian architect best known for his work in Odessa and Chişinău.- His life :...
) is a monument in Moldova.