Memory of Russia: Exhibition of M.B. Grekov Studio of Military Artists launched in Moscow

The Museum and Exhibition Center “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” in Moscow has launched an exhibition of the M.B. Grekov Studio of Military Artists timed to anniversary dates of the World War II – 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, 70th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow, 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials. The exhibition showcases graphic, pictorial and sculptural works of the studio’s artists of different years.

The exhibition also features unique materials from the studio’s holdings – sketches of dioramas “Suvorov’s Alpine campaign” by Pyotr Maltsev, “Reichstag’s assault” by Mikhail Ananyev, “Counterattack of Soviet army near Moscow in December 1941” and the “Siege of Izmail” by Eugeny Danilevsky, preparatory drawings and sketches, photographs.

Many artists of the Studio were participants of the Great Patriotic War, and reached Berlin. Pearls of the Studio’s collection available on the exhibition are based on materials of front-line drawings and photographs and revive in the memory the whole epoch in the life of the country.

Drawings of the graphic artist Nikolai Zhukov, created by him in 1946, as he participated in the Nuremberg Trials as a member of the Soviet delegation, shed the light on another chapter in the history of World War II. All in all Zhukov made roughly 200 drawings, including portraits of all accused, defenders and Soviet witnesses. The exhibition will put on show a part of the collection of drawings, created in 1946, extended by series of portraits of accused “Shadows of the Past”, made by Zhukov in December 1971 based on his recollections.

Along with battle-scene and historical pictures, the exhibition will feature canvases of the Studio’s artists on lyric themes and works showing modern army.