Museum of Fine Arts. G. Aitieva
Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after. G. Aitiev in Bishkek is the most important support for the development of contemporary art in Kyrgyzstan. Founded in 1935, in the Soviet Union it has more than 17,000 exhibition units in its collections, mainly works by Russian and Kyrgyz artists of the 14th-20th centuries. The museum's collection contains drawings, paintings, decorative arts and calligraphy. A special department of the museum shows the development of Kyrgyz folk art in its diverse manifestations.
In addition, the museum regularly hosts international exhibitions of contemporary art, such as that of the German artist and photographer Wols.
The Department of Decorative and Applied Arts was founded in 1967. The basis for its creation was the exhibits transferred in the 40-50s from central museums - the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage, and the State Museum of Oriental Arts. Since that time, over 40 expeditions have been organized to the regions of the republic and about two thousand works of Kyrgyz folk art have been collected. Currently, the department has a collection of more than three thousand exhibits, representing all types of traditional folk art. - felt (shyrdak, alakiyiz, felt products), utensils made of wood and leather (dishes), fabrics, woven rugs (terme-taar, bashtyk, kurjun), embroidery (tush-kiyiz, tekche, ayak-kap), men's and women's clothing, jewelry (bilerik, trampu, soyko, etc.), horse accessories (terdik, tokum, dzhulpoch) and modern decorative art.
The collection of sculptures began to be completed in the late 1930s. Currently, the sculpture collection includes more than 900 storage units. The foundation's arsenal includes all types and genres of easel sculpture, projects of monumental monuments, and medal art. The museum has a valuable collection of works by major Russian masters who worked in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries. These are such names as E. Lansere, A. Golubkina, S. Konenkov, I. Ginzburg, M. Vrubel, V. Mukhina. In the formation of the Soviet section, numbering more than a hundred authors, the museum received significant assistance from the All-Union Production and Artistic Association named after. E. Vuchetich, exhibition funds of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the Union of Artists of the USSR. Single works by F. Abdurakhmanov, A. Ambrazyunas, V. Boroday, L. Langinen, D. Dzhumadurda, I. Ochiauri and other famous artists illustrate the uniqueness of the multinational art of the former Soviet Union