THE GALLERY WAS ESTABLISHED AS AN ART MUSEUM IN RUSE IN 1933.

The initiators are a group of artists and awake Ruse citizens. All of them tangibly participate in the organized cultural life of the city; support a range of creative initiatives of the Ruse intellectuals such as shows of the Union of the Bulgarian artists, traditional Easter exhibitions, their own solo performances.

The basis of the collection is the works, which took place in 1933 in the exhibition of Ruse artists: Aleksandar Lazarov, Atanas Mihov, Vlado Vladimirov, Georgi Karakashev, Dimitar Diolev, Karl Matey, Kiril Stanchev, Lyuben Gaydarov, Nikola Kostov, Rusi Ganchev, Todor Yankov.

Their paintings were created with love to the Bulgarian style of life, manners, nature and emit lightly and romantic nostalgia, especially in the images of the hometown and the Danube River. The art works are realistic, unique in theme, mood and color. Often the subject is seemingly unassuming, but authors always manage to create powerful emotional landscape, balanced in line, spot and mass, full of mood and purple built, graduated in plans, but mostly lived with boundless love to the own country. The collection of paintings became the basis for the formation of the Gallery fund.