Artists / Tula Regional Art Museum

The Tula Museum of Fine Arts was opened in 1919. Since 1964 the museum collection has been displayed in a building, erected by Tula architect P.M.Zaitsev’s project. Nowadays, the Tula Museum of Fine Arts is one of the biggest museums of Russian Federation. Its collection constitutes about 23 000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and folk art.
A gem of the museum are the paintings of prominent Russian artists of the 16th-20th centuries such as A. Antropov, V. Borovikovsky, V. Tropinin, I. Aivazovsky, I. Shishkin, V. Surikov, V. Polenov, B. Kustodiev, V. Serov, K. Korovin; the avant-garde artists of 1910s - 1930s such as, V. Kandinsky, K. Malevich, A. Rodchenko, L. Popova, A. Kuprin, P. Konchalovsky, D. Shterenberg; and works of many masters of the subsequent decades including those of Tula artists. The collection of Western European art of the 16th-19th centuries has great artistic significance.These are works of famous masters of Italy (L. Bassano, O. Sammakkini, L. Giordano, D. Fetti), Holland (C. Molenaer, J. Vonck, G. Flinck, J. Gillemans), Flanders (D. Seghers, F. Snyders, D. Teniers Junior), France (C. Vernet, E. Le Sueure, H. Robert).