"Masterpieces of Russian painting from the collection of the personal collections department of the Pushkin Museum named after A.S. Pushkin" Automatic translate

A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and A. Kursk State Art Gallery A. Deineki, with the participation of the ART-WINDOW cultural platform - Alisher Usmanov’s charity foundation’s project “Art, Science and Sport”, presents the exhibition “Masterpieces of Russian Painting from the Collection of the Personal Collections Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin ", which will be held in the exhibition hall of the gallery. A.A. Deinecki from September 20 to November 10, 2019. The exhibition will feature 38 works of domestic art of the XVIII – XX centuries. Viewers will see the work of the largest masters of Russian art V.L. Borovikovsky, V. G. Perov, I. I. Shishkin, N. S. Goncharova and other artists. This is the second large-scale exhibition of the Pushkin Museum in the Kursk region.

The exhibition "Masterpieces of Russian painting from the collection of personal collections of the Pushkin Museum im. A. Pushkin ”gives an idea of ​​the various stages in the development of Russian fine art: from portraits of the 18th century, realistic paintings of the Wanderers, retrospective paintings of the Moscow artists to avant-garde compositions of the early 20th century. All works were donated to the department of the Museum of Personal Collections Department of the State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin from Russian collectors. In 1985, on the initiative of a collector, a well-known public figure, Doctor of Art Criticism I. S. Zilberstein, in close collaboration with the Director of the Pushkin Museum I. A. Antonova, the department "Museum of Personal Collections" was formed (now - the department of personal collections). The emergence of the department radically changed the situation in relation to private gathering in the country. An example of I. S. Zilberstein, who donated his collection of Western European and Russian art, proved the social necessity of this kind of activity, which contributed to his "rehabilitation" in society, emphasized his essential purpose - philanthropy. Over 40 collections and individual works were donated to the Pushkin Museum by private collectors and by the artists themselves or their heirs.

At present, the funds of the department include more than eight thousand works of Russian and Western European art of the 15th – 20th centuries.

The exposition includes works by artists of the Russian school of the 18th – 20th centuries: V. L. Borovikovsky, V. G. Perov, A. P. Bogolyubov, I. I. Shishkin, S. F. Shchedrin, I. E. Repin, P. P. Konchalovsky, N. S. Goncharova, P. I. Petrovichev, L. V. Turzhansky, V. V. Perepletchikov, V. K. Byalynitsky-Biruli and other masters.

Patronage of art, patronage of art is a noble feature of private collecting. For example, in 2013, a painting by Frans Hals “Evangelist Mark” was donated to the museum by a Russian philanthropist and businessman Alisher Usmanov.

Marina Loshak, Director of the Pushkin Museum. A. Pushkin: “Over the years of its existence as part of the Pushkin Museum, the department of personal collections, along with a large number of new exhibits, has gained many friends and like-minded people among amazing people — collectors who have devoted themselves to the noble cause of finding and preserving works of art. Thanks to the established close creative ties between the museum staff and Moscow collectors and artists’ heirs, the department of personal collections conducts an active and fruitful exhibition work. We hope that acquaintance with the best examples of Russian painting from the collection of our museum will arouse great interest and delight visitors to the exhibition, and will further strengthen cultural ties between the cities of our country. ”

Fatima Mukhomejan, deputy director of Alisher Usmanov’s charity foundation “Art, Science and Sport”: “With all the diversity and richness of cultural life in the regions, exhibitions of large museums are always a bright event, since paintings of this level rarely go outside the storehouses, their travels involve a lot of nuances, difficulties, secrets. We are pleased to give such beautiful events, to open up additional opportunities for people. This year, residents of the Kursk and Belgorod regions in the framework of cooperation between the cultural platform ART-WINDOW, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, the Kursk Picture Gallery named after A. A. Deineki will be able to see the works of Russian artists of the XVIII – XX centuries from the collection of the personal collections department of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin. I am sure that the exposition of the exhibition “Masterpieces of Russian Art” will leave a long emotional mark on the audience. I congratulate all the exhibitors and wish them vivid impressions and inspiration, which lies behind the beautiful forms of painting. ”

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State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin (Pushkin Museum) - one of the largest museums of foreign art in Russia. The museum was opened on May 31 (June 13), 1912. The founder of the museum is Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art, father of Marina Tsvetaeva, poet and prose writer. The collection contains about 700 thousand works of different eras, starting from the period of ancient civilizations and ending with the beginning of the XXI century. An architectural monument of the late XIX - early XX centuries, the museum complex includes 27 buildings and structures. The main collections of the museum are represented by paintings by French impressionists from the collections of Moscow merchants Sergey Ivanovich Schukin and Ivan Abramovich Morozov, works of art of Ancient Egypt, as well as masterpieces of old masters.

The Kursk State Art Gallery named after A. A. Deineka is one of the most remarkable art museums in Russia. It was founded in 1935. The collection of the Gallery totals about 10 thousand exhibits. The collection includes paintings, sculptures and graphics by domestic and foreign (Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French) masters of the 16th – 21st centuries, and folk and decorative arts from the 18th – 20th centuries. Many works reach the world level. The geography of the exhibitions is not limited to the best halls in Moscow and St. Petersburg and also includes the USA, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Italy. Since 1969, the Gallery bears the name of the largest domestic artist Alexander Deineka. The Kursk collection of his works is unique. Only in recent years her chosen show was held in such large cultural centers as Moscow, Rome, Madrid, Hamburg, Paris. The gallery is the winner of a number of national and international competitions. The motto of the gallery: preserving - multiply, studying - develop, showing - transform.

Gallery website www.deinekagallery.ru

Cultural platform ART-WINDOW. In 2017, in the small cities of Belgorod, Kursk and Orenburg regions, Alisher Usmanov’s Art, Science and Sport Charitable Foundation established the ART-WINDOW art festival. In order to promote the development of culture in small towns, since 2019, the festival team decided to implement the project in the format of a cultural platform. The focus is on industrial cities: Stary Oskol, Gubkin, Zheleznogorsk and Novotroitsk.

The basis of the ART-WINDOW cultural platform program is cultural projects that, by shaping the new thinking of citizens, contribute to the development of territories. Each year, the platform team implements more than 200 professional and spectator cultural events. The program is developed taking into account the results of sociological research.