Ion Ionescu Quintus Art Museum, Muntenia

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After the Great Union of 1918, numerous measures have been taken at national level to organize a network of specialized museums. Thus, having a collection of Romanian art from the classical period, modern and contemporary artists targeting purchases from that era, Paintings municipalities in joining existing art museums at that time.
Evacuated during the Second World War, Paintings Ploiesti will re-establish as the Art Museum of Ploiesti in 1955.
In 1969, the Museum of Art awarded Ploiesti No current headquarters in Independence Blvd. 1, Palace "Ghita Ionescu, who hosted, after 1919, Prahova County Prefecture.
Architectural monument of national value, entered on the list of historical monuments, the building that houses the Museum of Art, is located in the center of Ploiesti, on "Chestnut Avenue (opened 1881), and is part of an architectural reserve, which bears the imprint concerns style of Romanian and foreign architects of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Heritage museum consists mainly of modern and contemporary Romanian art (nineteenth century and twentieth-century) and is structured in collections: paintings, graphics, sculpture and decorative art.

Painting Collection debuted in 1931, enriching, over the years through purchases and donations (among which is the largest donation Seulescu-sterile). It offers a broad and significant influence over developments in the genre, styles and European influences on the Romanian painting easel in the last two centuries. There is lacking any major author, the anonymous early nineteenth century until the last generation of the twentieth century. Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (1820-1851), Ion mole (1812-1851), George Tattarescu (1820-1894) and, of course, Theodor Aman (1831-1891) are just some of the most representative artists of the nineteenth century, present the most valuable works.
Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) is also well represented in the museum collection. Among his works are detached head countrywoman - delicate impressionistic treatment notes, and Navy, with a plea of northern France.
Ion Andreescu (1850-1882) is currently at work such as Fair Buzau pot with carnations and other edge of the village.
Luchian Stephen (1868-1916) is represented by a youthful self-portrait, dating from 1899 and executed in Paris, but the Brebu landscapes, including the 1912 Green Grove.
Welcome '30s generation is represented by works by Pallady (1871-1956), George Petrascu (1872-1948), Jean Al. Steriadi (1880-1956), Nicholas Tonitza (1886-1940), Iser (1881-1958), plus various generations of contemporary artists such as Corneliu Baba (1906-1998), Alexander Ciucurencu (1903-1977 ) Ion Tuculescu (1910-1962), John Peace, and many others.

Another area well represented in the collections of the Art Museum of Ploiesti, with works of the nineteenth century and twentieth century, like graphics.
Among areas of interest of easel graphics collection includes the 20 drawings on tracing motifs Dobrogea, signed by Nicholas Tonitza from Eugenia Iftode workshop. There are also numerous drawings and sketches signed by Jean Al. Steriadi, many of them as representing some of his contemporaries, such as the painters Nicolae Dărăscu and Iser. Watercolors and drawings are due by Pallady, from the collections Yvonne Dinopol, Balchik and Octav club and satirical graphic Iser or different compositions, from the donation and Misu Elizabeth Weinberg. Add to these gouaches signed by Lucian Grigorescu (1894-1956), Corneliu Baba and many others.

Engraving and graphics in general are multiplying, in turn, well represented, from engravings by the nineteenth century, Theodor Aman shall belong to them by contemporary engraving of authors in the country and outside its borders. By organizing, by 1990, the International Biennial of Contemporary Engraving "Iosif Iser", Art Museum of Ploiesti and the rich heritage with hundreds of photographs that illustrate all the techniques of engraving, old or new, and that is by their authors all five continents, we can offer such a comprehensive overview of international contemporary engraving.

Sculpture collection is small but very valuable. It includes representative works of some of the leading Romanian sculptors such as Dimitri Paciurea (1873-1932), Cornel Medrea (1888-1964), Oscar Han (1891-1976), Alexandru Calinescu (1889-1979), Ion Jalea (1887 -1983), Constantin Baraschi (1902-1966) (currently, among others, two projects of unusual equestrian monuments of Kings Carol I and Ferdinand, Dumitru Măţăoanu (1888-1929), Gheorghe Tudor (1882-1944), Rum Ladea ( 1901-1970), Ion Irimescu (1903-2005) and many others.

Decorative arts are represented by works of contemporary art in ceramics and glass, a collection of icons on glass from the nineteenth century, but also the valuable collection of Romanian contemporary tapestry that includes works by John and Anna-Stendl Moisescu, Geta aa, Paul stalks Constante, Peter and offline James, John Nicodemus, Ileana Dăscălescu Angela Ionilete, Ileana bales, Ana Lupas, Liliana Anastasescu, Ovid Pastina, Cela Neamtu-Grigoras, Mariana Voicu Grumazescu, and others.

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