Online ARTINFO.com resource offers a list of the most interesting «museums one artist» in Europe. Those who will rest in France, Switzerland, Holland or Norway, offers fun and learn a lot of interesting information about the great artists.

1. Museum of Henri Matisse. NICE

Museum Matisse (Henri Matisse) is in the XVII century villa, which in 1993 added an extension elegant, designed by Jean-Francois Boden (Jean-François Bodin). This year, the museum notes the 45-year anniversary. In honor of celebration there an exhibition «Henri Matisse, the museum: the center of attention - 1963-2008». In the museum's collection includes paintings, graphic arts, sculpture and photography. Especially a lot of pictures - more than 200. For the artist's drawings were as important as the painting, and a museum in Nice has one of the world's largest collection of its graphics. In the collection also includes photographs of the artist, made his famous contemporaries, including Henri Cartier-Bresson (Henri Cartier-Bresson).

At the jubilee exhibition presents not only the work of the permanent exhibition and storage, but also more than 100 works which were lent by other museums, galleries and private collectors. In the modern wing of the museum an exhibition, the theme of which is the influence of Matisse on the creativity of contemporary artists. Matisse lived in Nice from 1917 until his death in 1954, and called the city a paradise on earth. Overflow artist paints reflect the sun shining, the blue of the Mediterranean Sea and the juicy green of the nature of Côte d'Azur.

2. National Museum of Pablo Picasso, Paris

museum of Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso) is located in the bohemian quarter of Paris Marais. Tourists do not go there very often: all the same for a normal week tour should be run and catch in the Louvre and the Museum of d'Orse, and the Pompidou Center, and much much more - and visit the Picasso museum of art lovers just can not do. But those who did find a few spare hours to devote to meeting with the great Franco-Spanish painter contemplate his masterpieces in silence. The collection of the museum struck by its scale: it is more than three thousand works. Most of them were bought by the French State «in two steps»: a part - as a tax on the inheritance after the death of the artist in 1973, another part came to the museum after the death of Picasso's widow Jacqueline Rock (Jacqueline Roque) in 1986-m. The basis of the collection are the sculptures of Picasso, as well as his later works.

3. Center Paul Klee, Bern

Center Paul Klee (Paul Klee) in Bern makes «nervously smoking in aside» even the Picasso Museum in Paris. His collection includes the entire four thousand paintings, watercolors and drawings! And that's not the largest collection of works by the great Swiss modernist. Center building - an architectural masterpiece built by Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano), which resembles a huge abstract sculpture. The museum was opened as recently as 2005.

This year, the center of the exhibition are united by the common name of «To the west of paradise - gardens». The exhibition «enchanted garden of Paul Klee» exhibited paintings and graphic works by the artist, which depict gardens and parks in places where he went - in Germany, France, Tunisia. «Paradise Lost - Angel eyes» represents the work of Klee Angelus Novus, which provided the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In addition, this exhibition displays about 150 works, where Klee tried to capture the world covered by alarm, crazy to pieces (the peak of his work - the years between the two world wars). The third exhibition, «Art-playground - garden», goes directly to the outdoors. You can admire the works of contemporary artists, including Paul McCarthy (Paul McCarthy), Yuig Pierre (Pierre Huyghe) and Atelier van Lieshout.

4. Vincent van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

If the Picasso Museum in Paris is not a lot of visitors, the museum Vincent van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh) always pandemonium. Van Gogh Museum - one of the main tourist attractions Netherlands. A great number of first-class paintings in his collection due to the fact that ... in the life of the great artist was able to sell just one work. The rest are mostly settled in the collection of Van Gogh's brother Theo (Theo van Gogh). Son of Theo Willem Vincent (Vincent Willem van Gogh) in 1962, the Assembly passed the Foundation Vincent van Gogh. A collection of works in the Van Gogh Museum - the largest in the world. In addition to paintings and graphics of famous precursor expressionism, Amsterdam museum has a large number of high-quality works of his contemporaries and followers: Paul Gauguin (Paul Gauguin), Maurice de Vlaminka (Maurice de Vlaminck), Claude Monet (Claude Monet), and others. And this summer, visitors can view a small exhibition Kazimir Malevich , which presents 16 paintings from the museum Stedeleyk (Stedelijk Museum).

5. Edvard Munch Museum, Oslo

This year, fans of the art of Edward Munch (Edvard Munch) great feast: the museum capital of Norway again, you can see the famous painting« Creek »and« Madonna ». In 2004, things are known to have been stolen two years later, they found, and now, finally, the finished restoration. Now, the masterpieces are on display again.

U Munch art has always been a lot of fans, but after the hands-free theft interest in his art grew very strongly .

Munch Museum in Oslo, appeared in 1963. His upgraded twice - in 1994 and 2005. Today, many well-known masterpieces by Norwegian artist hanging behind the glass, but still that they are insured against robbery, there is no absolute certainty. In 2013, the Munch Museum will move into a new building located at the harbor, near the Opera House. Guards and surveillance cameras there will be more.

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru