Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca

[1] Virgil Cioflec (1876 - 1948), authored monographs dedicated to painters Stefan Luchian (1924) and Nicolae Grigorescu (1925), as well as some published writings about art, and brought together a collection of great significance for the life of interwar Cluj.

[1] Since 1951, the Art Museum in Cluj has housed works by artists Nicolae Grigorescu, Stefan Luchian, Dimitrie Paciurea, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu, Vasile Popescu, and others, arranged over 20 rooms.

Works of art were transferred by the Ministry of Culture, from the National Art Museum in Bucharest, and by the local government, including pieces by Barbu Iscovescu, Constantin David Rosenthal, Theodor Aman, George Tattarescu, George Panaitescu Bagdasar, Carol Popp de Szathmary, Ion Andreescu, Karl Storck.

A further donation came from the Cluj branch of the Romanian Academy (1971), including important works of art from Transylvania (unknown painters of the 18th Century - 19th Century, Franz Neuhauser, Joseph Neuhauser, Franz Anton Bergman, Koreh Sigismund, Szathmari Gati Sandor, Simo Ferenc), contributing substantially to shaping the collection as it stands.

The National Gallery reopened to the public in January 1996, providing a synthesis of four centuries of Romanian art with an emphasis on artistic phenomena in Transylvania: Altar Jimbor (sixteenth century), Biedermeier paintings, works from the 1900s, and avant-garde artists linked to the Higher School of Fine Arts and Artistic Center Cluj: Alexandru Popp, Szolnay Sandor, Pericle Capidan, Catul Bogdan, Aurel Ciupe, Romul Ladea, Petre Abrudan, Tasso Marchini, Alexandru Mohy, Szervatius Jeno, Theodor Harsia, Kovaks Zoltan, Nagy Albert, Anton Lazăr, Virgil Fulicea, Constantin Dinu Ilea, Ioan Sima, and Egon Mark Lovith.