Omsk Museum of Fine Arts: Russian Painting

Interior Photos (9)

Japan Graphic Art (4)

Western European Painting (12)

Russian Painting (30)

Sculpture (18)

Collection of icons contains both paintings and copper plastic casts of 16th — beginning of the 21st centuries. The most part of the icons relates to the 19th century and is represented by Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Palekh, Mstera, Ural and Siberia icon painting schools.

Russian painting school of 18th — early 20th centuries is mainly characterized by landscape paintings of M. Vorobyev, L. Lagorio, I. Levitan, I. Shishkin, N. Dubovsky etc.

History painting is represented by the works of the artists of academic school of the second half of the 19th century such as V. Vereschagin, M. Botkin, G. Semiradsky, P. Svedomsky, S. Bakalovitch, K. Makovsky. Victor Vasnetsov’s drawings of the mosaic interior of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in Saint Petersburg are of a great value.

The portrait collection is quite interesting from its subject point of view. The most prominent paintings are “Portrait of violoncellist Morozov” by A. Kramskoi and “Portrait of Leonid Andreev” by I. Repin.

Important part of Russian painting collection consists of the painters acceding to the new art movements of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Artistic strivings of that time are reflected on the paintings of V. Serov, V. Borisov-Musatov, N. Roerich.

Three Mikhail Vrubel’s monumental decorative panel-paintings are considered to be the gem of museum collection. These are “Roses and Lilies”, “Chrysanthemums” and “Yellow Roses”. Omsk museum is the only Siberian museum possessing works of this great artist.

There is a wide variety of Russian avant-garde paintings represented by P. Konchalovsky, I. Mashkov, A. Lentulov, P. Kuznetsov, W. Kandinsky, M. Larionov. The museum also contains 9 exclusive pictures of A. Jawlensky.

Prints courtesy of Omsk State Museum of Fine Arts named after Mikhail Vrubel