100 years on : : revisiting the first Russian art exhibition of 1922 / / Isabel Wünsche [and nine others].

• VerfasserIn: Wünsche, Isabel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wünsche, Isabel,
• Place / Publishing House: Wien : : Böhlau Köln,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 pages)

The First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung), which opened at the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on October 15, 1922, and later travelled to Amsterdam, introduced a broad Western audience to the most recent artistic developments in Russia. The extensive show - more than a thousand works, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures, stage designs, architectural models, and works of porcelain - was remarkably inclusive in its scope, which ranged from traditional figurative painting to the latest constructions of the Russian avant-garde. Coming on the heels of the Treaty of Rapallo, the exhibition was a first cultural step towards bilateral relations between two young and yet internationally isolated new states - the Weimar Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic. Moving away from the narrow focus on the avant-garde, the volume presents new research that examines the exhibition's broader historical scope and cultural implications. The reception of the exhibition within artistic circles in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Japan in the 1920s is addressed, as well as the disposition of many of the works exhibited. The combination of longer, thematic essays and short features, along with reproductions of newly identified works and a selection of unpublished archival materials make this book valuable to both a scholarly and a general readership.

Table of Contents

Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Myroslava Mudrak -- Prologue: Berlin 1922 and Ukraine 2022 -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Multiethnic Dimension of Russian Art and Culture in the Early Twentieth Century -- Ulrich Schmid -- What did "Russian" mean in the Early Twentieth Century? -- Monica Rüthers -- On Jewish Cultural Identities within the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia, 1918-22 -- Isabel Wünsche -- Beyond Kandinsky: The Promotion and Reception of Russian Art in Germany, 1890s to 1922 -- The History and Politics of the Exhibition -- Kasper Braskén -- International Communism and Transnational Solidarity in the Context of the First Russian Art Exhibition -- Kasper Braskén -- Willi Münzenberg and the Workers' International Relief -- Ewa Bérard -- The Double Track of the Berlin Exhibition -- Isabel Wünsche -- Anatoly Lunacharsky and the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment -- Éva Forgács -- The Diplomats: Viktor Kopp and Konstantin Umansky -- Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier -- Weimar Republic State Art Policy and the Russian Exhibition of 1922 -- sabel Wünsche -- Keeper of Art: Reichskunstwart Edwin Redslob -- Miriam Leimer -- Showcasing Bolshevik Russia in a Private Art Gallery in Berlin -- Ludmila Piters-Hofmann -- The Curators: David Shterenberg and Natan Altman -- Christina Lodder -- Naum Gabo: The Sculptor as Curator -- Willem Jan Renders -- El Lissitzky: The Designs for the Catalogue Cover -- The Reception of the Exhibition and its Afterlife -- Éva Forgács -- Responses to the First Russian Art Exhibition -- Sebastian Borkhardt -- Wassily Kandinsky and the Soviet Avant-garde -- Miriam Leimer -- Erich Buchholz: Reflections on Russian Non-objective Art -- Linda Boersma -- Dutch Responses to the Exhibition in Amsterdam -- Linda Boersma -- Theo van Doesburg: Reporting on Revolutionary Russian Art.

Merse Pál Szeredi -- Lajos Kassák's Interaction with Russian Constructivism in Vienna, 1920-24 -- Merse Pál Szeredi -- Lajos Kassák and Picture Architecture -- Isabel Wünsche -- Katherine S. Dreier and the Promotion of Russian Art in the United States -- Isabel Wünsche -- Louis Lozowick: Russian Constructivism and American Machine Art -- Omuka Toshiharu -- The Impact of Russian Art in early 1920s Japan -- Omuka Toshiharu -- Murayama Tomoyoshi and the Mavo Group -- The Whereabouts of the Art Works -- Liubov Pchelkina, Irina Kochergina -- Art Works from the First Russian Art Exhibition in the Collection of the Moscow Museum of Painterly Culture -- Irina Karasik -- Protests about the Selection of Works from the Petrograd Museum of Artistic Culture -- Natalia Avtonomova -- Archival Research on the Paintings and Graphic Works Shown in Berlin in 1922 -- Iryna Makedon -- Art Works from the First Russian Art Exhibition in Ukrainian State Museums -- Dilyara Sadykova -- Art Works from the First Russian Art Exhibition in the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum F.A. Kovalenko -- Naila Rahimova -- Art Works from the First Russian Art Exhibition in the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art, Baku -- Ilia Doronchenkov -- Epilogue: The International of Art as a Utopian Concept -- Appendix -- Documentation -- List of Archives -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Image Credits -- Index.