Free entry on August 13 at the National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” –

/ world today news/ On August 13, 2015, National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” in Sofia will once again have free entry – as you know, our new museum announced that the second Thursday of every month is a day for free entry to “Kvadrat 500”.

It is expected that this Thursday again hundreds of residents of the capital and guests of our city will use the opportunity on the day with free entry to view the nearly 2,000 works on display, located in 28 rooms on four floors in our new National Gallery “Kvadrat 500”, which show Bulgarian art in commensurate with European and world trends, reported MK. The representative exposition shows only a part of the collection of our national gallery, which numbers over 42,000 works, recalled by our new museum. Half of the exhibited works are by Bulgarian authors. The other half features art from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The curious moment this time is that all art connoisseurs who decide to visit the National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” on the announced day with free entry – August 13, will be able to see and appreciate a real masterpiece of European class. This is the symbolic monumental painting “Lucifer” (1890/91) by the famous German artist Franz von Stuck (1863–1928), which gives us a convincing idea of ​​the special place that this artist’s work occupies in the development of Western European artistic processes in the 90s those years of the 19th century. It is close to the English Pre-Raphaelites, the French Symbolists, the German Idealists, as well as the French version of Secession. The painting “Lucifer” was purchased in 1891 very soon after its creation by the young Bulgarian prince Ferdinand I for the palace collection when he visited the artist’s studio in Munich. It is also the work with the most participations and guest appearances in representative international exhibitions in the most prestigious museums of France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Great Britain and the USA. Only a few weeks ago, Stuck’s landmark work was in the Roverella Palace in Rovigo (Italy) in the exhibition “Demons of Modernism”, but now it is again in the representative exhibition of the National Gallery “Square 500”.