History and culture: Exhibition “This XX century: Portraits of Contemporaries of Anna Akhmatova” in Saint-Petersburg

June 10, 2014 in the Grand Exhibition Hall of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House – (Saint-Petersburg) opens the exhibition of painting and graphics “This XX century: portraits of contemporaries of Anna Akhmatova”, dedicated to the 125^th anniversary of Anna Akhmatova and the 35^th anniversary of the museum”.  

The exhibition features more than hundred of graphic and pictorial portraits of Anna Akhmatova from the collection of the museum. Many works are exhibited for the first time. The heroes of the exhibition are people of art, culture and science.

The artists-authors of portraits: Nathan Altman, Lev Bakst, Valentine Serov, Konstantin Somov, Nikolai Tyrsa, Natalia Gumileva-Simonovskaya, Sergei Zarudny, Peter Neradovsky, Maria Schreter.

Chronologically, the exhibition covers the entire XX century: the earliest of the papers – “Portrait of Dmitry Filosofov” by Valentin Serov dates from 1899, and the latest is made almost a century later: “Portrait of Lydia Ginzburg” byv Aron Zinshtein made in 1989.

The exposition features innovative, cubist portraits of Nikolai Kulbin, traditional lithographs of George Vereisky, caricatures and cartoons of Nathan Altman, Nikolai Radlov, and Sergei Sudeikin.

The Petersburg theatre artist Emil Kapelush turns the exhibition hall into the mysterious labyrinth of time and space, offering the viewer to build his own way through “This XX century”.