Gregory Inger "My childhood" Automatic translate

From February 28 to March 31, 2019, the State Museum of the East presents the exhibition of Grigory Inger "My Childhood". The project will show the work of Inger from the cycle "My childhood", which he created throughout his life; illustrations for the works of the writer Sholom Aleichem, which have become world classics of drawings for the novels “Boy Motl”, “Enchanted Tailor”. And also for the first time the “Bible cycle” will be presented - one of the artist’s most striking series on the history of the Old Testament, which for Inger is part of the actual history of the 20th century. The exhibition will feature over 50 works by the artist.

Grigory Inger (1910-1995) was born near Uman, near Cherkasy. He studied at the Kiev Jewish Industrial Art School in the class of the sculptor and graphic artist Mark Epstein. In Moscow, the school of the brilliant draftsman Pyotr Miturich was held at the advanced training department of the Surikov Institute. Inger almost completely lost his hearing in early childhood, because of which he did not participate in the Great Patriotic War; but he was very acutely worried about the tragedy of his people - the destruction of towns, people and history itself. Then, while still evacuating in Chuvashia, Inger began his famous anti-fascist cycles “Babi Yar”, “Stones of Treblinka” and “The Last Way”, the creation of which lasted several decades. After the war, he collaborated with publishers.

In the 1970s, the artist began a series of graphic works devoted to his childhood, recreating in him the world of a Jewish town destroyed by war. This cycle lasted more than twenty years, eventually “losing” color (the last works of “My Childhood” were made with black gouache), but at the same time gaining severity of emotional filling. In fact, both the heroes of Sholom Aleichem, and Don Quixote created in the 1980s, hail from those early years of the artist, from this tragic, but at the same time full of irony beloved by the artist life.

Grigory Inger was able, combining classical craftsmanship and artistic discoveries of the early XX century, to vividly describe the world of Russian Jewish culture. He is known primarily as one of the most striking illustrators of Jewish literature and as an artist who created a universal artistic language on national soil.

The works of Gregory Inger are stored in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin, Russian National Museum of Music, Yaroslavl Art Museum-Reserve, Museum of the History of Jews in Russia (Moscow), Museum of the Art and History of Judaism (Paris) and many other museum and private collections in Russia and abroad.

The exhibition will feature an album of works by Gregory Inger with the most complete publication of his works.