Autumn Fine Art Exhibition. Leningrad, 1958. Catalog
Year1958
LocationLeningrad Union of Artists Exhibition Halls, Leningrad

The Autumn Exhibition (Leningrad, 1958) (in full the Autumn Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad Artists (Leningrad, 1958), Russian: Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года) was one of the largest Soviet art exhibitions of 1958 and of the whole of the early Khrushchev Thaw. The exhibition took place in the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls at Bolshaya Morskaya st. 38.

History and organization

The Autumn Exhibition lasted from October to November 1958. Its organization and preparation was carried out by a specially formed exhibition committee of authoritative art experts. An exhibition catalog was published.[1] The exhibition displayed almost 1,600 works by painters, sculptors, graphic artists, theater and cinema artists, and masters of arts and crafts. It was attended by 510 Leningrad artists.

Contributing artists

In the Department of Painting, the exhibition's largest section, the works of 232 artists were displayed. The artists were Taisia Afonina, Irina Baldina, Leonid Baykov, Evgenia Baykova, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Piotr Belousov, Yuri Belov, Zlata Bizova, Nikolai Brandt, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Elena Gorokhova, Abram Grushko, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, Marina Kozlovskaya, Tatiana Kopnina, Boris Korneev, Alexander Koroviakov, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Valeria Larina, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Piotr Litvinsky, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Alexei Mozhaev, Evsey Moiseenko, Nikolai Mukho, Anatoli Nenartovich, Yuri Neprintsev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Sergei Osipov, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Varlen Pen, Nikolai Pozdneev, Stepan Privedentsev, Alexander Pushnin, Maria Rudnitskaya, Galina Rumiantseva, Lev Russov, Ivan Savenko, Gleb Savinov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Shmidt, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Elena Skuin, Alexander Sokolov, Nikolai Timkov, Yuri Tulin, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Piotr Vasiliev, Igor Veselkin, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other prominent painters of the Leningrad School.[2]

In the Department of Sculptures the works of 57 sculptors were exhibited, while in the Department of Graphics the creations of 104 artists were displayed.

Contributed artworks

The building of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists on Bolshaya Morskaya st. (formerly, the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1912)

Many of the artworks were specifically created in 1958 for the exhibition, and some earlier works were also displayed. All of the pieces were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently shown in the collections of other Soviet art museums, as well as in domestic and foreign galleries and collections.

Coverage

The exhibition was widely covered in press[7][8] and in literature on Soviet fine art.[9][10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  2. ↑ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  3. ↑ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  4. ↑ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  5. ↑ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  6. ↑ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  7. ↑ Ковтун Е. Заметки о художественной выставке // Вечерний Ленинград, 1958, 29 ноября.
  8. ↑ Шумова М. Не уступать завоёванных рубежей. Осенняя выставка работ ленинградских художников // Ленинградская правда, 1958, 2 декабря.
  9. ↑ Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т. 1-4.. М., Искусство, 1970-1995.
  10. ↑ Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Том 5. 1954—1958 годы. М., Советский художник, 1981. С.385-387.
  11. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.391.

Sources

  • Ковтун Е. Заметки о художественной выставке // Вечерний Ленинград, 1958, 29 ноября.
  • Шумова М. Не уступать завоёванных рубежей. Осенняя выставка работ ленинградских художников // Ленинградская правда, 1958, 2 декабря.
  • Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959.
  • Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Т.5. 1954—1958 годы. М., Советский художник, 1981. C.385-387.
  • Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980.
  • Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.1-4. М., Искусство, 1970-1995.
  • Справочник членов Союза художников СССР. Том 1,2. М., Советский художник, 1979.
  • Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.391. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7
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