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National Museum of Belgrade
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EstablishedMay 10, 1844
LocationRepublic Square, Belgrade, Serbia
DirectorTatjana Cvjetićanin
Websitewww.narodnimuzej.rs

The National Museum (Serbian: Народни музеј/Narodni Muzej) in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844. It is on Republic Square. Since it was founded, its collections have grown drastically. Today, the museum has a collection of over 400,000 objects including many foreign masterpieces. Currently, the museum is closed for renovation costing an estimated 26 million euros. It will get a new exterior and interior. One of the features of the exterior will be the introduction of a glass dome as the roof of the museum, which will allow a controlled amount of sunlight to enter the museum.

The collections

The Collection of Drawings and Prints of International Artists has 2,446 items and the Yugoslav Art Collection has more than 6,000 items, including 1,700 paintings of Serbian authors from 18th to 19th century and 3,000 paintings from 20th century. This does not include the Serbian Medieval Art Collection.[1]

The newest acquisition is Amedeo Modigliani's ('Portrait of Man'), donated by an anonymous Serbian collector and valued at 25 million euros. The painting will be in museum's collection after museum's reconstruction.

The French masters collections are the National Museum's biggest pride. Comprising extremely rare pieces from Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, Rouault, Degas, Cézanne and others.Most paintings were collected and donated by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Erih Slomovic was a young Belgrader, born at the turn of the 20th century. Slomovic, even though very young, has been the protégé of the world's biggest art merchant, Ambroise Vollard. Thanks to this relation, he developed his own collection, comprising a total of 600 pieces around 1941. The Slomovic Collection is the largest and richest collection of French art in the Balkans, as well as one of the most beautiful in the world.

Numismatics

The Numismatic Collection has more than 300,000 items (coins, medals, rings, seals...). The collection is divided into ten smaller assemblies from 5-6th century B.C., and includes a collection of coins issued by Philip II of Macedonian (359 – 336 B.C.) and Alexander the Great (336 – 323 B.C.).

Art Collections

The French Art Collection

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Renoir's Nude
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'Bust man with soft hat', by Degas
'Tahitian Girl', by Gauguin

The French Art Collection consists of more than 250 paintings, from the 16th to early 20th century. It includes Gauguin (2 paintings, 2 prints and 1 water-color), created between 1889 and 1899, Renoir (22 paintings and 50 graphic works), Hubert Robert, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Matisse, Monet, Cezanne, Degas (15 works), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Signac, Maurice Utrillo, Vollard, Sébastien Bourdon, Auguste Rodin, Eugène Boudin, Georges Rouault, Pierre Bonnard, Pissarro, Callot, Odilon Redon, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Moreau, Honoré Daumier, Charles-François Daubigny, Eugène Carrière, Maurice de Vlaminck, Édouard Vuillard, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon, Eugène Fromentin, Émile Bernard, Forain, Jean Cocteau, Rosa Bonheur, Marie Laurencin, Eugène Carrière, Georges Dufrénoy etc.

The Italian Art Collection

'Adoration' by Lorenzo di Credi
Madonna and Child with Donor by Tintoretto
'Nativite', by Lorenzo Veneciano,c. 1300
Holy Pilgrim and St.Sebastien by Vittore Carpaccio

The Italian Art Collection, consisting of more than 230 works of art, is famous for the creative production of individual masters and artistic workshops starting from the 14th to the 18th century. Titian, Tintoretto, Domenico Veneziano, Paolo Veronese, Palma il Vecchio, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Alessandro Magnasco, Vittore Carpaccio, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo di Credi, Spinello Aretino, Luca Cambiasi, Francesco Guardi, Bernardo Strozzi, Francesco Bassano the Younger, Piranesi, Giovanni di Paolo, Giulio Carpioni, Girolamo Muziano, Amedeo Modigliani, etc.

Dutch and Flemish Collection

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'The Music Lesson',by Frans van Mieris, Sr.

The Dutch and Flemish collection consisting of more than 120 paintings of art : From atelier of Hieronymus Bosch to Vincent van Gogh, Jan van Goyen, Rembrandt, Rubens, Frans van Mieris, Sr., Joachim Wtewael, Willem van Aelst, Jan Toorop,Aelbert Cuyp, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Adriaen van Utrecht, Joos van Cleve, Johan Jongkind, Carel Willink, Kees van Dongen, Allart van Everdingen etc.

Japanese Art Collection

View of Edo, by Hirosige
Geishas, by Kunisada

Japanese Art Collection has 82 works including 36 graphics and paintings (All the graphics belong to the Ukiyo-e genre, which developed in Japan from the 17th to 19th century. One of the most frequent motives was the city of Edo itself).In collection are also Kunisada, Toyokuni, Keisai Eisen, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Ginko Adaci, Tsuguharu Foujita, Sosai Ikei, Jamamoto Souna, Sadahida Giokuran,...

Russian, Austrian and German Art Collections

Portrait of Karageorge by Vladimir Borovikovsky

Other Art Collections include Wassily Kandinsky, Albrecht Dürer, Mary Cassatt, Charles Conder, Alfred Sisley, Gustav Klimt, El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Aegidius Sadeler, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Burne Hogarth etc.

Cubist Art Collection

Cubist Art Collection include Picasso, Cezanne, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Archipenko, Marie Laurencin, Robert Delaunay, etc.

The Yugoslav and Serbian Art Collection

The Wedding of Emperor Dusan

The Yugoslav Art Collection consisting of more 6000 pieces created between 17th and 20th century. Some of them are: Paja Jovanović, Stojan Aralica, Petar Lubarda, Milan Konjović, Uroš Predić, Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Nadežda Petrović, Petar Dobrović, Mića Popović, Sava Šumanović etc. There is also Croatian Art Collection which has 156 works dated from 1850 to 1969 [2].

See also

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