Mohamed Nagy Museum..Arts tells history and documents the present

 Mohamed Nagy Museum..Arts tells history and documents the present

It is adjacent to the Giza pyramids, one of the most prominent gifts of ancient history, and derives from it a touch of originality and historical fragrant, mixed with a modernist view based on contemporary plastic art. It is the museum of the Egyptian plastic artist, Mohamed Nagy, whose collections reflect the contributions of this creator to the enrichment of Egyptian art as well as to the enrichment of the international plastic art movement.

Artist Mohamed Nagy Museum:

The museum’s first nucleus dates back to 1952 AD, when the artist Muhammad Naji built his studio in the “Hadaeq Al-Ahram” area, on which the museum itself was built several years later.

Museum address:

"9 Mahmoud El-Gendy Street in Al-Ahram Gardens, Giza Governorate."

 This is the title and location of the museum that Nagy chose 65 years ago, as the late artist wanted it in a place isolated from the hustle and bustle of Cairo to have peace and tranquility, as the area was not then inhabited as is the case now, and the purpose of choosing this place was to complete his most important painting «Alexandria School »Which he started painting in 1939 when he was director of the Museum of Modern Art.

Mohamed Nagy, one of the pioneers of plastic art in Egypt, who left prominent marks in the world of plastic art.

And the artist Mohamed Nagy, born in Alexandria January 17, 1888 - Cairo, 1956), an Egyptian painter of the generation of pioneers of Egyptian painting, combined the study of law and art. He studied law at Lyon University in France (1906-1910) and obtained a BA.

 He studied painting at the hands of the Italian artist Biennale in Alexandria (1906) and traveled to Italy and studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Florence (1911-1914), and worked with the French painter André Lot, after Egypt returned from Italy in rebellion against the academic drawing school and appeared to be influenced by the influential school and the painter Claude Monet, was the first Egyptian director of the Higher School of Fine Arts in Cairo. He traveled Ethiopia in the early 1930s and was inspired by its colors and nature, studied the Egyptian nature that appeared in his works, linked Egypt's ancient artistic past with its present, was inspired by ancient Egyptian art, and left works with the imprint of his distinct artistic style, especially during the period he established in Abyssinia, and he received the Medal of Honor From France in 1927.

 His drawings are distinguished by the strength of composition and the transparency of colors, and among his works is the Alexandria School (started in 1939). He set up exhibitions in France, Belgium and England, and his painting is exhibited in the Tate Gallery in London, after his death in 1956.

Positions:

He was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Fine Arts Lovers Society, 1923.

He was appointed as a cultural attaché in Brazil and then in Paris 1924-1926.

Appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 16, 1925.

He was appointed as the first director of the School of Fine Arts in Cairo, 1937.

He was appointed director of the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo 1939 - 1947.

He was appointed director of the Egyptian Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and a cultural attaché in the year 1947-1950.

Special exhibitions:

International exhibitions:

He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists, 1920, his famous painting (The Renaissance of Egypt).

He completed the design of decorative paintings in the Egyptian pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris 1937-1939 and displayed his painting (The Tears of Isis).

He has exhibitions set up by the Ministry of Culture in Italy - Rome - Turin - Florence, where he showed him 52 oil paintings, 200 quick sketches.

Held an exhibition in London with the theme "Egypt and Abyssinia", 1934.

Nagy dedicated a special hall to his works in the Fourteenth Exhibition of the Society of the Friends of Art in Cairo 1935.

He held an exhibition of paintings that he had photographed in Abyssinia in the Art Gallery in London (the Tait Gallery) in 1936, where he displayed about 45 paintings, and one was acquired for the museum.

He held an exhibition in Brussels and Marseille.

Local fairs:

He participated in most of the group exhibitions in Egypt

Technical visits:

He traveled to Florence, where he spent four years studying art from 1911-1914.

He traveled to France in 1918 and resided in "Giverny" and met the French photographer (Claudimonie), so he saturated himself with modern influence and its extensions.

He traveled to Greece - Italy - France - England - Cyprus - Abyssinia.

Missions and Grants:

A mission to Abyssinia in 1932, where he lived for about a year, where he photographed nature in its loud colors, as well as portrayed the emperor, clerics, and many prominent figures in the court of (Hilla Selassie), and he gave Al-Negashy one of the portraits that he drew for him.

Technical tasks assigned to him and public contributions:

Among his important achievements are the large frescoes, including the paintings at Al-Mouwasat Hospital, representing medicine for the Arabs and for the ancient Egyptians.

He painted his large painting on the renaissance of Egypt in the parliament building (now the People's Assembly) from 1922 until now.

He held a ceremony for students of fine arts in the village of Al-Qurna in Luxor, 1941.

Nagy launched a campaign to save the Temple of Philae, return the head of Nefertiti to Egypt, and save the Temple of Abu Simbel, 1947 to 1954.

In 1928, he called for preserving folklore in Egypt at the Birage International Conference, representing Egypt.

Literature and cultural activities:

He created the Atelier group of artists and writers in Alexandria 1945.

He founded the Cairo Atelier for Artists and Writers, 1952.

International Awards:

Received the French Necklace of Honor 1927.

- His holdings

Private Collectibles

Many individuals have groups inside and outside the country.

Official holdings

The Ministry of Culture acquired his house in the pyramid he built in 1952 and turned it into a museum, and it was opened after its development on 1/27/1991.

His famous painting "The Renaissance of Egypt" has been in the People's Assembly since 1922.

The Egyptian Modern Art Museum in Cairo.

Alexandria Museum of Modern Art.

Alexandria Fine Arts Museum.

The death of the artist Mohamed Naji:

The artist remained in this studio for four years until he passed away in 1956.

The Ministry of Culture turns the studio into a museum:

The Ministry of Culture purchased the studio six years later, specifically in 1962, the studio was bought in preparation for converting it into a museum, and his sister Effat Naji al-Dawla donated forty oil paintings of the late artist's works, and a large collection of his preparatory drawings, in addition to his personal belongings.

 And then the museum was opened F.