The Florina Museum of Modern Art is an art
museum
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in
Florina
Florina ( el, Φλώρινα, ''Flórina''; known also by some alternative names) is a town and municipality in the mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'.
The town of Florina is the capital of the F ...
in
Greece
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. It was founded by the
Florina Art Centre in 1977. It is housed in a neoclassical building by the
Sakouleva river. The museum's collection is composed of 480 works by 254 artists, which includes paintings, sculptures and engravings. More recently, its collection was enriched by a work of
El Greco
Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...
donated by the national Gallery, as well as by 44 engravings from
Florence
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. These are in display since August 1999. Apart from its permanent exhibition, the museum also organizes art symposia and exhibitions of visual and applied art.
The purpose of the museum is to promote modern Greek culture through products of contemporary art, to cultivate the aesthetic and critical faculties of the local people by mounting solo and group exhibitions of visual art, and to provide schoolchildren with artistic education.
The museum's collection consists of representative paintings, sculptures, and engravings by noted artists of the twentieth century. More specifically, it includes: paintings by
Rengos,
Plakotaris,
Mavridis (painter),
Kaniaris,
Tetsis,
Kokkinidis,
Mytaras,
Kondos,
Kanakakis,
Kondogiannis,
Tsaras,
Xanthopoulos,
Botsoglou,
Dimitreas,
Sahinis,
Fokas,
Golfinos,
Lachas,
Kalamaras,
Papagiannis,
Georgiadis,
Zongolopoulos,
Perandinos,
Koulandianos,
Lappas; sculptures by
Chalepas; engravings by
Hadzikyriakos-Gikas,
Rengos,
Papageorgiou,
Grammatikopoulos,
Papadakis,
Xenakis,
Nikolaou,
Sikeliotis,
Tsoklis,
Moralis
Yiannis Moralis ( el, Γιάννης Μόραλης; also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis; 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s".
Life
B ...
,
Giannadakis,
Nedelkos. A recent addition to the exhibits is a collection entitled ‘Tribute to El Greco’, which was put together from donations from Greek artists to acquire El Greco's ‘St Peter’ from the National Gallery and 44 engravings by 31 foreign artists from Florence. The collection was displayed in the museum in August, 1999.
The museum has a library dedicated to the visual arts, an information archive and an atelier for young people. It frequently organises art symposia and exhibitions of visual and applied art both on its own premises and elsewhere in Greece.
File:Macedonian_Museums-13-Sygxronhs_Texnhs_Florinas-60.jpg, Grammatikopoulos, Aegean see
File:Macedonian_Museums-13-Sygxronhs_Texnhs_Florinas-61.jpg, Plakotaris, Florinas landscape
File:Macedonian_Museums-13-Sygxronhs_Texnhs_Florinas-62.jpg, Mytaras, Glory
File:Macedonian_Museums-13-Sygxronhs_Texnhs_Florinas-63.jpg, Sculpture by Halepas
External links
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourismwww.greece-museums.comTourist service of Florina Prefecture (in Greek)
Modern art museums in Greece
Art museums established in 1977
1977 establishments in Greece
Museums in Florina
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