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17 unusual facts about Hermitage Museum


Aleksandra Efimova

Ms. Efimova grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia and attended art school at The State Hermitage Museum.

Brose Partington

In 2008 Partington’s work was featured at The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia exhibition Cyberfest.

His artworks have been shown in numerous cities across the United States including New York, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles, in European galleries, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Carole Feuerman

She has enjoyed six museum retrospectives to date, and has been included in exhibitions at, among other venues, the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Venice Biennale, and Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.

Daniel Silver

Group exhibitions include Dustcatcher, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2012); We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2011); No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010); and Newspeak: British Art Now, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and Saatchi Gallery, London (2009).

Dmitri Prigov

In 2011 Hermitage Museum presented an important monographic exhibition of Prigov's art in Venice during 54th Biennale.

Imperial Porcelain Factory

The IPM has recently started to produce hand-made copies of porcelain from the range of Imperial porcelain exhibited in the State Hermitage Museum collection.

Ivan Morozov

After the Bolshevik Revolution his art collection was nationalized and divided between the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad.

Kristin Baker

Her work has been exhibited in many prominent international galleries and museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Royal Academy in London and The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

Malachite

It is also used for decorative purposes, such as in the Malachite Room in the Hermitage, which features a huge malachite vase, and the Malachite Room in Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City.

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

As a complication, Nick's ballerina girlfriend Tatiana (Tanya Jackson) is kidnapped by a gang working for Alex into order to pressure her father, the head curator of the Hermitage Museum, into helping steal valuable artwork for crooked art dealer Dr. Vestry (Serge Houde).

Petr Pavlensky

On September 21, 2013, the art exhibition Ghosts of Identity opened on the steps of State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Pierre Soulages

Soulages is the first living artist invited to exhibit at the state Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg and later with the Tretyakov Gallery of Moscow (2001).

Raphaele Shirley

Shirley has also been exhibited at the Moscow Biennale, the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, the Video Lounge at ArtBasel Miami 2006, and The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia.

Salvator Mundi

There are also several versions of the theme attributed to Titian, notably the one in the Hermitage Museum.

Tim Holmes

He was the first American artist ever invited to exhibit solo at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1993 to 1994, where three of his sculptures remain on permanent exhibit.

Yevgeny Ukhnalev

From 1967–1975 Ukhnalev worked as chief architect at the State Hermitage Museum.


Buffard

His art-works are at the following museums held at the Hermitage Museum (Lord Warton), Le Louvre (portrait de Charles 1er d'Angleterre / Ruppert de bavière et son frère), and Windsor Castle (Rubens).

Dorfprozelten

Dorfprozelten stonemasons took part in building, among other projects, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Mainz Cathedral and the Reichstag.

Giovanni Omiccioli

After winning an award at the Marzotto Prize Convention, with Il Pastore con la capretta (Shepherd with small goat), Omiccioli exhibited at many important arts centres: especially noticeable are his anthologic displays at the Hermitage of Leningrad, his personal at the La Medusa Modern Gallery of Naples, and in the 1950s his participation in exhibitions at Pittsburgh, Boston, and Tokyo.

Leon Benois

He gave his name to Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Benois which he inherited from his father-in-law and presented to the Hermitage Museum.

Museum of Western and Oriental Art

During the Soviet times, the museum ranked the third in the USSR by the value and size of its collection after The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

Peacock Clock

Today it is a prominent exhibit in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin

In addition to the Boston version, there are notable copies in Munich (Alte Pinakothek, c. 1483), St. Petersburg (The Hermitage, 1475–1500), and Bruges (Groeningemuseum, variously dated).

Sebastian Vrancx

He is also represented with several drawings or paintings at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Louvre, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville and several other museums.