Zambaccian Museum

The Zambaccian Museum (Romanian: Muzeul Zambaccian ) in Bucharest, Romania is a museum in the former home Krikor Zambaccians ( 1889-1962 ), a Romanian businessman and art collector Armenian origin. The museum was founded in 1947, closed in 1977 by the Ceauşescu regime and reopened in 1992. Today it is a part of the National Museum of Art of Romania. Its collection includes works of Romanian artists, including a portrait of its founder Corneliu Baba and works of various French impressionists. It is located in northern Bucharest, near the Piata Dorobantilor in a street that is now named after Zambaccian and the museum.

When the museum was founded, the public, it was on May 19, 1947 accessible, laid down the foundation deed, that it must be housed in Zambaccians vormaligem house. After the earthquake of 1977, which caused no apparent damage to the museum building, the Romanian government created of many small municipal museums of Bucharest and a number of expropriated private collections, the museum of art collections. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Zambaccian stayed nevertheless in the museum of art collections; In 1992, she was brought back to their historic location.

The collected artists include Romanians Theodor Aman, Ion Andreescu, Corneliu Baba, Henri Catargi, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Horia Damian, Nicolae Darascu, Lucian Grigorescu, Nicolae Grigorescu, Iosif Iser, Ştefan Luchian, Samuel Mutzner, Alexandru Padina, Theodor Pallady, Gheorghe Petrascu, Vasile Popescu, Camil Ressu and Nicolae Tonitza, the Frenchman Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne ( the museum owns the only Cezanne in Romania ), Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, Pierre- Auguste Renoir and Maurice Utrillo, to works of two other artists who lived in France, the Spaniard Pablo Picasso and the Englishman Alfred Sisley. In the courtyard is a large sculpture of the Romanian sculptor Oscar Han, other sculptures in the collection come from Constantin Brancusi, Cornel Medrea, Military Pătraşcu Dimitrie Paciurea and Frederic Storck.