Galeria De Arta Pitesti Pitesti - Cazare lângă Galeria De Arta Pitesti
Pitesti, Judetul Arges
Without any claim to compete with other galleries and museums of its kind in the country, the Art Gallery of Pitesti have sufficient amounts of modern and contemporary art able to attract the attention of visitors.
It is located in a building architectural monument, built in 1886 by architect John N. Socolescu, as the seat of Hall Pitesti.
Opened in 1971, is the home gallery donations Schweitzer-Cumpana (38 paintings and drawings), fund the acquisition was completed and finally, with donation-Calinesti Iliescu, Schweitzer-Cumpana it as being bound by birth and emotional de Arges.Even acquisitions that were made were taken into account beyond the artistic and sentimental grounds, the binding sites by subjects by birth or choice of painters or sculptors.
Done in eclectic manner of the French school, this building, with ground and first floor, still preserved in the former boardroom on the first floor ceiling painted by Joseph Materna.
Here are exhibited paintings signed by Nicolae Grigorescu, Stefan Luchian GD Mirea, Nicholas Tonitza, George Petrascu, Pallady, Coneliu Baba, Octav Bancila Nicolae Vermont, Nicolae Dărăscu, Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpana, Camil Ressu Dumitru ice and more. The exhibits also signed by Gheorghe Iliescu Calinesti sculptures.