History and Culture: The exhibition "The Brothers Henkins: Discovery. People of Leningrad and Berlin in 1920-1930s" in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "The Brothers Henkins: Discovery. People of Leningrad and Berlin in 1920-1930s" is opened July 1, 2017 in the building of the General Staff (State Hermitage, St. Petersburg).

The State Hermitage and the Henkin Brothers Foundation for the first time present an exhibition of photographs from a unique family archive.

Native brothers Eugene (1900-1938) and Yakov (1903-1941) Henkin were born in Rostov-on-Don. After the October Revolution, his younger brother moved to Leningrad, and the eldest went to Germany and from 1926 to 1936 he lived in Berlin.

The images captured by Yakov and Eugene Henkins are two kinds of cities, mass events, everyday scenes, portraits of relatives and friends. Jacob filmed in the parks and stadiums of Leningrad, Eugene - in the streets and squares of Berlin.

Pictures are valuable not only as unique historical documents. Composition, light transmission, work with classical subjects and genres testify to the developed photographic talent of Yakov and Eugene, they are discovered both as genuine masters of photo art. It is a non-photo photograph, so rare at the time, which is especially valuable due to its authenticity and uncompromising.

The exhibition "The Brothers Henkins. People of Leningrad and Berlin in 1920-1930s" is held in the framework of the project" Hermitage 20/21", designed to collect, exhibit, study the art of the XX-XXI centuries.