Society and culture: Works of 1920-30s from the collection of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” are presented at the exhibition in Volgograd

The exhibition "Romantic assembly" was opened in the I. I. Mashkov Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts on April 7, 2016. Works of 1920-30s in the collection of the Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo".

For the first time in the halls of the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts are exhibited paintings, drawings, sculptures from the collections of one of the largest Russian museums - the State Historical Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo". The project "Romantic assembly" includes more than 60 works created by 19 artists, in fact shaped the national art of the first half of the XX century. Among them are Igor Grabar and Pyotr Konchalovsky, Pavel Kuznetsov and Alexander Labas, Tatiana Mavrina and Vera Mukhina, Nadezhda Udaltsova and Robert Falk, Aristarchus Lentulov and Ilya Mashkov. Lines of their destinies intersected repeatedly, were bound with special spiritual space Abramtsevo. It was there, in Moscow, on the bank of the river Vori, a few kilometers from the estate of ST Aksakov in 1933 began construction of the New Abramtsevo village artists. Among the organizers of the village and was Ilya Mashkov. The last decade of his life was closely associated with the Abramtsevo.

In New Abramtsevo was a unique creative community of like-minded artists, it is important that many of them were related "teacher-student". Their work became the basis of the richest collection of works of the XX century of the Museum-Reserve, the opportunity to experience that was a great gift for all of Volgograd residents.