"Nicholas Zagrekov and Russian Berlin"
ARTinvestment.RU   11 июля 2012

The exhibition in Mamma is more than 150 objects from the museum collection Zagrekov in Berlin, a unique silver-gelatin copyrights prints 1920-30s, reflecting the artist's view of the atmosphere, culture and people of Berlin at the time

Multimedia Art Museum, July 11 - August 12, 2012
st . Ostozhenka 16

Today in Multimedia Art Museum opens an exhibition « Nicholas Zagrekov and Russian Berlin ", which presents more than 150 objects from the museum collection Zagrekov in Berlin, a unique silver-gelatin copyrights prints 1920-30s, reflecting the artist's view of the atmosphere, culture and people of Berlin at the time .

NICHOLAS Zagrekov Double Portrait . 1927 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

NICHOLAS Zagrekov double portrait. To contest cosmetics company" Elis. "Berlin, 1927 Silver -gelatin print Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

The exhibition offers a look at the cultural phenomenon of the "Russian Berlin" through the eyes of one of the people rushing to the city at the dawn of the 1920s in search of a better life - the Russian artist N. Zagrekov (1897-1992). In 1921, being married to a German Volga, a student of the Moscow VKhUTEMAS receives a call in Germany from the relatives of his wife and moved to Berlin. There he continued his studies by enrolling in the Professional School of Arts and Crafts. Zagrekov originally planned to stay in Berlin for a while, but eventually he stayed there forever.

NICHOLAS Zagrekov Portrait of Ursula Nahtliht. 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

NICHOLAS Zagrekov Girl with T-square (Portrait of Ursula Nahtliht). Berlin, 1929 silver-gelatin print The museum-apartment NA Zagrekov in Berlin Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

The exhibition features rare objects of industrial charts - an amazing and colorful designs of posters created by Nicholas Zagrekov and his students, graphic and architectural sketches and pictures by courtesy of the time.

Thanks 3D-modern technology, visitors can see authentic interiors Berlin Zagrekov home and take a virtual tour of its rooms.

NICHOLAS Zagrekov in the studio. Berlin, 1929 silver-gelatin print Collection Museum-flat NA Zagrekov in Berlin Source: mamm- mdf.ru ​​

NICHOLAS Zagrekov Students NA Zagrekov. Berlin, 1930 Silver -gelatin print The collection -NA Zagrekov apartment in Berlin Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

«Russian Berlin" - certainly the most unique cultural phenomenon in the history of Russian-German relations. In the early 1920s, when the situation in Russia was heated up to the limit, tens of thousands of Russian hastily left the country. Someone did it on their own, someone - alas - it was forced to the circumstances. On the way to another life in almost all turned out to Berlin, has become something of a "junction", "transit point" for immigrants from Russia.

for thousands of miles from home by representatives of the first wave of emigration - the military, entrepreneurs, writers, artists, find themselves abroad - have formed a kind of "island" of Russian civilization in the heart of Europe. There were published Russian language newspapers, magazines, open Russian stores, banks, educational institutions, have community organizations, trade unions.

Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​