National Art Museum of Ukraine

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The National Art Museum of Ukraine (Ukrainian Національний художній музей України / Russian Национальный художественный музей Украины ) is an art museum in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Building

The museum is located in the 1899 built in neoclassical style building, one of the most important monuments of the capital. The architect was Władysław Horodecki, which the city owes the House with Chimeras. The museum is located in the street Mychaila Hruschewskoho ( Михайла Грушевського ) number 6 in the center of Kiev.

History

The museum was founded on the initiative of Ukrainian intellectuals in the late nineteenth century as the first public museum in Kiev. Originally, the Museum of Antiquities was intended, however, developed after the First World War to a museum of history and after the Second World War was it to an art museum in connection with the protests of the Euromaidan the building was the beginning of 2014 to the center of clashes between police and demonstrators and was besieged. For this reason, the museum had to temporarily cease operation.

Exhibition

The museum holds more than 20,000 art objects of icons on realism to the Russian avant-garde. It includes works by Alexander Bogomazow, David Burliuk, Alexandra Exter, Kazimir Malevich, Vadim Meller and many others.

Fedor Krytschewskyj, " Bride" (1910 )

" Cossack Mamai " (1855 )