Muzeul Zambaccian
The Zambaccian Museum ( Romanian : Muzeul Zambaccian ) in Bucharest , Romania is a museum in the former home of Krikor Zambaccians (1889–1962), a Romanian businessman and art collector of Armenian origin. The museum was founded in 1947, closed by the Ceaușescu regime in 1977 and reopened in 1992. Today it is a part of the National Art Museum of Romania . Its collection includes works by Romanian artists, including a portrait of its founder by Corneliu Baba and works by various French Impressionists . It is located in the north of Bucharest, not far from Piața Dorobanților in a street that is now named after Zambaccian and the museum.
It has been open to the public since May 19, 1947 . The deed of foundation stipulated that it had to be housed in Zambaccian's former home. After the earthquake of 1977 , which did no noticeable damage to the museum building, the Romanian government created the Museum of Art Collections from many small municipal museums in Bucharest and a number of expropriated private collections . After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Zambaccian collection initially remained in the Museum of Art Collections ; In 1992 it was returned to its historic location.
The collected artists include the 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 Petraşcu , Vasile Popescu , Camil Ressu and Nicolae Tonitza , the French Pierre Bonnard , Paul Cézanne (the museum has the only Cézanne in Romania), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Eugène Delacroix , André Derain , Raoul Dufy , Albert Marquet , Henri Matisse , Camille Pissarro , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Maurice Utrillo , plus works by two other artists who lived in France, the Spaniard Pablo Picasso and the English Alfred Sisley . In the courtyard there is a large sculpture by the Romanian sculptor Oscar Han ; other sculptures in the collection are by Constantin Brâncuși , Cornel Medrea , Milița Pătrașcu , Dimitrie Paciurea and Frederic Storck .
Web links
- Branches of the National art museum Romania (Engl.)
- Online gallery from the Zambaccian Museum (Romanian)
- Interview with Marcel Zambaccian, nephew Krikor Zambaccians (Engl.)
Coordinates: 44 ° 27 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 26 ° 5 ′ 27.6 ″ E