Muzeul Ouălor Încondeiate - LUCIA CONDREA - Eggs Museum (Moldovita, Bucovina, Romania)

Please turn On English subtitle ! Among all Romanian customs, the one of the Easter painting eggs is one of the finest and delicate and maybe nowhere else like in Bucovina the egg isn’t looked upon and considered with so much love, the tradition of eggs painting being raised at a high artistic level. The most beautiful, the most reprezentative and the most suggestive inked eggs, carrying ancient, pre-Christian symbols, are those that come from Hutsul territories. Hutsuls are unanimously acknowledged for the craftsmanship of their Easter Eggs , which have become emblematic of them, as it were. In Moldovita (Bucovina) a place where the hutsul people had settled since ancient times, this tradition is at home. The artist Lucia Condrea, daughter of this area blessed by God, is the one who gave o real name to this place spreading it all over the world. Member of the Artistic Union of Romania and having a lot of prizez within the most important exibitions of art in the world, Lucia Condrea is a unik artist and the eggs painted by her are the reflection of a gift with which she is endowed by God to make the other people happy. Lucia Condrea makes use of seven techniques in making these ,,jewel eggs”. She took part in over one hundred sixteen exhibitions within twenty two years time international exhibitions. All the juries together with the value of the other artists, urged her towards perfection, getting to be, finally, one the most valuable and creative artists of this kind in the world in technique batik. The ,,little masterpieces” of this real artist stand a place of honour in the greatest museums of the world, Royal Houses and personal collections as well, being an unexhaustable source of ideas and conceptions in contemporary Romanian art. Starting with the summer of 1993 the artist Lucia Condrea opened in Moldovita (Bukovina, Suceava- Romania) a museum that bears her name, unique in Romania and maybe in the world, having in mind the artistical value of the exhibits. The idea of the opening of this museum came as a natural consequence of many years of artistic labour and, also, out of the wish to pass over to the younger generations the unique value of this art. The museum contains over 5000 exhibits, artistically disposed on the area of the two levels of the building in 56 display cases and it is structured into three sections: – the “unique” pieces of art belonging to artist Lucia Condrea, being the most numerous (using seven working techniques); – very old painted eggs, collected from the areas where the “hutsul” (local people) live; – pieces collected by Lucia Condrea from artists belonging to different countries (international collection).