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Museum to show masterpieces from Russia
The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will hold the exhibition Modern Masterpieces from Moscow on October 19. It will show paintings and drawings by influential Russian Jewish artists from the period 1910-1940. It will depict Jewish artists in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. Most of the works have never been seen in the Netherlands before.
Artists on show include El Lissitzky and Isaak Brodsky as well as Nathan Altman and Alexander Tyshler. The arts flourished in Russia after 1910. Jewish artists such as Lissitzky played a pioneering role in forging the new Soviet art and introduced Jewish art to a dynamic new phase in its history. But the cultural renaissance was crushed in the 1920s and artists were severely restricted in their choice of style and subject matter.
The works in the exhibition are on loan from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum in Moscow. Modern Masterpieces from Moscow. Russian Jewish Artists, 1910-1940 runs from October 19 until February 10 2008.
This article was written for TravelSavvy Europe by Amy Armitage. If you know of an interesting European travel related news story, please get in contact.
