Exhibition "Nicholas Roerich" Automatic translate

The Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts will host the opening of the exhibition “Nicholas Roerich” from the collection of the State Russian Museum.

The exhibition “Nicholas Roerich” acquaints the city of Kaluga and visitors with the legacy of one of the most significant masters of Russian painting of the late 19th – first half of the 20th century, a writer, thinker, archaeologist and public figure, initiator of the International Covenant on the Protection of Human Cultural Property (“The Roerich Pact”).

Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (September 27 (October 9), 1874, St. Petersburg - December 13, 1947, Naggar, Himachal Pradesh, India) - Russian artist, poet, publicist, archaeologist and philosopher of world scale. Being a multifaceted creative person N.K. Roerich left behind a diverse artistic and literary heritage, testifying to the deep and indissoluble connection with Russian culture.

The exhibition exposition consists of 40 paintings and drawings by N.K. Roerich, 39 of which are part of the collection of the State Russian Museum, and 1 work is in the museum collection of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. The Russian Museum has the largest collection of the picturesque heritage of Nicholas Roerich, numbering about 430 works representing the Russian and foreign stages of his career.

The exposition thread leads the viewer through the different stages of the artist’s life and work, starting with works related to the early stage, the so-called “Russian period” of N.K. Roerich, associated with training at the Imperial Academy of Arts and participation in the activities of the associations “World of Art” and “Union of Russian Artists”. Also quite widely and fully represented is the work of N.K. Roerich during his stay abroad after leaving Russia in 1918 - works created in India in the second half of the 1930s - 1940s.

Vernissage of the exhibition will be held in the "Information, educational and exhibition center" of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts at the address: Kaluga, st. Lenin, house 103

For visitors, the exhibition will run from July 10, 2015 to September 27, 2015.

Museum opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 18:00, except Mondays, Thursdays from 11:00 to 19:00. Address: Kaluga, st. Lenin, d.103, the building of the Information, educational and exhibition center of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. Phone for inquiries: 56-28-30, 22-61-58