Apartment Museum Brodsky
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Memorial Apartment Museum Isaak Brodsky, a unique person, a gifted teacher, artist and collector, is located in the historic center of St. Petersburg at the Arts Square in a house designed by Rossi and L.Benua was opened in 1949. From 1924 to 1939, the last 15 years of his life, I. Brodsky lived and worked in the studio and apartment.

Isaak Brodsky, the beloved disciple of Ilya Repin, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, with equal success painted landscapes and portraits. Several of his works were devoted to the subject of war and the events of the revolution. Brodsky pupils were outstanding Russian artists - YM Neprintsev, AI Laktionov, PP Belousov VM Oreshnikov. II Brodsky - the central figure of the official Soviet art of 1920-1930.

For several decades, Brodsky was a unique collection, which includes works by Russian artists of the early twentieth centuries vosemnadtsatogo-. In the museum you can see pictures of Brodsky IE Repin, VV Makovsky, V. Surikov, VD Polenov, VA Serov, II Levitan and KA Korovin, AY Golovin, MA Vrubel. BM Kustodiev, M. Nesterova, VA Serov, SY Zhukovsky, AN Benoit, N. Roerich, BD Grigorieva and other artists.

Funds of the museum has more than 2,000 items and paintings, including more than two hundred paintings and graphic works of Brodsky and more than six hundred paintings, painted by other authors, as well as documents, memorabilia, furniture, books, pictures with unique signatures of famous people. In 2001, the reconstruction of the house was completed in the area of ​​Arts. Since that time, the museum regularly organizes various art exhibitions of contemporary artists, and on the second floor of the building, in the workshop, which is a hall with excellent acoustics, are now being vocal and instrumental chamber concerts of classical music.

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