The museum Vasily Tropinin collected as a unique exhibition of paintings of the artist - a famous portrait painter and other artists.
Persons Moscow
many people boring historical facts in books are perceived with difficulty.Textbooks prevails dry information, stuffed with dates and events.To somehow bring themselves to the ancestors, to present, as were people in the past, is to go to the museum.And of course, the most appropriate institution of such a plan - an art museum, where historical facts are described by their witnesses.People and events as if captured in the photographs.
Few contemporaries lightning can recreate in your mind what looked like a nobleman or aristocrat of the 19th century.But how to distinguish their appearance from the representatives of the merchant class?
Were there any special features in the faces of the Muscovites of the period?The ordinary people lived, how fun and working peasants?
Answers to all questions give Tropinin Museum and his contemporaries.For 150 years, Moscow has become completely different.All changes to tell the museum guides.Those portraits of the time do not look at the faces of his contemporaries.
About the Museum
Tropinin Museum in Moscow for the first time opened its doors in 1969.It is considered quite new.Its founder was a certain Felix Wisniewski, who decided to make the city a favorite gift.The property in Moscow has passed not only the house, but two hundred and fifty paintings, which are attached to it.
Maecenas made generous gifts not only the city.During the period of his life Vishnevsky was passed over eight paintings in various museums of Russia.
Representatives art exhibition were not limited to just donated masterpieces.They began to collect, and his collection.Over the years the museum's paintings was ten times more.
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main highlight of the collection of the gallery began painting Tropinin.It was called the founder of the style "of painting in Moscow."In the first half of the 19th century, the great artist was considered a favorite.He loved the city.
portrait that the artist created, are still present in private collections around the world.
works Tropinin addition, the museum presents paintings of artists of the same period: Argunova, Vishnjakova, Antropov, Levitsky, Rokotoff, Borovikovsky, Shchukin, Shchedrin.
A museum collections you can find pictures of famous artists: Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Benois Alexander Nikolayevich, Isaac Ilich Levitan, Polenov Vasily Dmitrievich, Konstantin Korovin.
Thanks to the atmosphere of an old residential house, Art Museum Tropinin fully covers the period of the first half of the nineteenth century.The gallery includes the best representatives of this time.Those that can not yet be included in the current exhibition, be sure to appear before the public later.
VATropinin
Vasily Tropinin, artist, famous as the discoverer of the Moscow style of painting.For him, as there are two directions that guided him - realism and romanticism.
great artist was born 19 (30) in March 1776 near Novgorod in with.Karpov and died 3 (15) in May 1857 in Moscow.He is buried at the cemetery Vagankovsky.As Vasily Tropinin, whose paintings are exhibited now at the Central Museum of the city, came from the family land, then his life can not be called easy.Though the host and let the father of the painter, but his family gave another graph.The head of the family was forced to voluntarily recruited into the house of the manager of the current owner.
new chief thought of the young guy to make pastry, but his cousin insisted that the boy was fed hopes in drawing, went to the Academy of Fine Arts.He trained in Petersburg Tropinina Shchukin Stepan Semenovich, who was a Russian portrait and watercolor painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.
His training had to be interrupted at a time when Count Irakly Ivanovich Morkov moved to Ukraine, and his father Basil died.Tropinin (artist) became the manager instead.In Ukraine, he meets the love of his life - the beauty of Anna Ivanovna, and marries her.There are born their son Arseny.
In 1812, he, along with carrots went to Moscow, where he continued to live in subjection to the graph.When Vasily was 47 years old, he became free.In the same year he was given the title of the artist's paintings presented to them.For portrait Leberecht he received the title of academician.
Having freedom, he started doing things you love, teach art to young students.
paint his self-portrait Tropinin, when he was a free man.
portrait painter was awarded an honorary member of the Moscow Society of Painters.
During his life Vasily painted more than 3,000 portraits.
famous portrait artist, who had to go and subordinate to, and get a taste of freedom, well versed in the life of the poor, and in the life of the rich.He painted portraits of various people.All experienced Tropinin, paintings reproduced in reality.His figures always convey emotions, special atmosphere.
Among the most famous works of the artist, you can select the portrait of Alexander Pushkin, Ustym Karmelyuka, Karamzin, Bera, a painting titled "The Lacemaker", for which he was awarded no awards.
museum building
House Museum Tropinin is a high historical value.He held it Felix Wisniewski, who died in 1978.
The museum is located in his merchant Manor, which was built in the early 19th century.Zamoskvoreche proud of this house, one of the few buildings of that period extant.
Here is preserved a wooden outbuilding with 1883.On the maps of the city it originated in 1793.Alas, in 1812 the manor burned down.But he was able to re-build.Now he laid the foundation stone and built a wooden mezzanine.
Inside you can see an iron ladder, preserved from the 19th century to the present day.
around the museum
Tropinin Museum is located in the heart of the city.From it you can walk to the Kremlin.It is conveniently located between the Big Ordynka and Big meadow.
Near Gallery Tropinin also to Tretyakov Gallery, Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, House of Ostrovsky and so on.
The building adjacent Church of the Resurrection, Catherine the Great, Nicholas, Our Lady of the Assumption.
visitors recommend
The review, which is left after visiting the Museum of Muscovites and guests of the city, has the following comments and advice:
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take a guide who will tell fascinating stories of all the paintings and shed light on the mysteries of secret signs and some works;
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pay attention to the interior of the rooms themselves, in the furniture, which complements the atmosphere of an old 19th-century merchant's house;
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glass, porcelain, beaded items, works of bronze, exhibited in the museum - part of the exhibition of arts and crafts of the nineteenth century;
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Tropinin portrait of the artist - is the starting point of the exhibition;
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better to come to the gallery several times due to the fact that the room is small, and a large collection of paintings, museum staff change from time to time one operation to the other, pulling them out of the fund.
schedule and cost
Glyptotek weekend in two: Wednesday and Tuesday.Every last Monday of the month - sanitary day.
Visit an exhibition of artists can be on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 18 pm.On Thursday, the schedule is: from 13.00 to 21.00.
Cash museum operates since its opening.It closes an hour before the termination of the exhibition itself.
As for the cost, in every third Sunday of the month admission is free.The board also canceled for people with disabilities first and second groups, war veterans and children who are under six years.
Adult exhibition ticket costs 200 rubles.
for beneficiaries, which include students, pensioners, large families, the entrance - 40 rubles.
The museum held a variety of workshops and performances.
in hand, you can see if there are thematic tours and new programs.Children are led to special paintings added to the stories of interesting details, ask questions about the exhibition and competitions coming up.
One recent exciting tasks given to children in the museum, was the request to find the portraits profession people.
In 2011, after years of renovation, the Museum of Tropinin finally opened its doors to visitors.Since then, representatives of the galleries are trying to follow the modern trends, to attract more public attention to the pictures.
