World culture: Works of Russian avant-garde of 1910-20s from the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts collection are presented in Budapest

The Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest) from January 29 to April 1, 2016 hosts an exhibition "The revolution in art. Works of Russian avant-garde of 1910-20s" from the collection of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.

The exhibition presents some forty outstanding works of art from the collection of Russian avant-garde of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, made by such famous Russian artists as Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov. Budapest will be the first foreign city where all these pictures together appear to the audience.

The Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts houses one of the world's largest collection of Russian avant-garde art, executed between 1910s to 1920s. The museum's collection - outstanding work, representing almost every direction of Russian avant-garde, including Cubism, Cubo futurism, neo-primitivism, suprematism and constructivism.  

A collection of Russian avant-garde art is one of the most interesting and the whole collections of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. It is, in the vast majority, was brought to Yekaterinburg on the initiative of the People's Commissariat for a large exhibition of modern art trends. It was associated with Kandinsky expressed the idea of ​​creating a network of museums scenic culture not only in the capitals, but also in the provinces. 

After the exhibition, which was a great success in building free art workshops in May 1920, the paintings were left in Yekaterinburg. So in the capital of the Urals was the unique collection of Russian avant-garde of early XX century, including a job as its founders and leading figures of the recognized and less well-known or half-forgotten authors.

The exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery presents viewers all major areas of Russian avant-garde art of the period of 1910-1920s, and modern papers presented at the exhibition, will talk about the tumultuous events of those times.

To the exhibition was also prepared a large-scale bilingual catalog (English and Hungarian).