Rare photographs, postcards and autographs at auction Artmaximum 17 Nov
ARTinvestment.RU   13 ноября 2018

17 November, the auction house Artmaximum (Hamburg, Germany) conducts the auction number 5 "History of Russia. Documents, photographs, autographs. Brodsky and his associates in the materials from personal archives. The ballet".

Online-каталог auction.

In the collection of the auction includes:

• Rare photos of the first Russian aviators;
• Three ages of the Russian army in the pictures of Karl Bulla, postcards of world war II and the photo albums from the archive of Marshal of the Soviet Union;
• Constructivism in materials from the archive of Mikhail Sinyavsky;
• photographs and Autographs of Nobel laureates;
• Russian ballet from Vaslav Nijinsky to Mikhail Baryshnikov.

the auction Catalog reveals the plan of the land holdings of count Anton von Munnich, the grandson of the legendary leader, General-фельдмаршала Christopher von Munnich, who had served Peter the great and Catherine II.

"Russian Germans" — moved to Russia of persons of German origin — have succeeded in the field of public service and left a bright trace in the history of Russian culture. One of them was the famous Karl Bulla, which is considered to be the father of photo-reporting in Russia. His camera captured the momentous events in the history of — parades in Saint-Петербурге, Gatchina and Tsarskoye Selo, military exercises and maneuvers in the presence of Nicholas II, the visit of the President of the French Republic Raymond Poincare. Two dozen original prints of Karl Bulla, augmented included in the catalog photographs from the archive of collector and connoisseur of the Russian army Yakov Davidovich, acquaint with everyday life and holidays of the Imperial army and the Royal court of the early twentieth century. Particularly noteworthy are some rare pictures of the Ipatiev house and one of the last photos of Nicholas II and the portraits of the women's battalion of death — commander Maria Bochkareva and her aide Maria Skrydlevo.

the Military theme — red and then Soviet army — is being developed in postcards of world war II were designed by leading artists (Kukryniksy, Veniamin Briskin, Veniamin Pinchuk, etc.), and photo albums from the archive of Andrei Grechko — Marshal of the Soviet Union, Minister of defense and one of the gray cardinals of the Soviet policy of the Brezhnev era. They captured international visits Marshall to Cuba, Poland, India, his meetings with the first persons of the States — Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Georges Pompidou.

undoubtedly a collector's value are the materials from the archive of architect-конструктивиста Mikhail Sinyavsky, spanning several decades of his life. Among the lots — letters to the parents with stories about the attempt of entering the Imperial Academy of arts, rare photo with leading representatives of constructivism on the First conference of the OSA (Union of contemporary architects), documents associated with the construction of the Moscow crematorium, and also pictures of the Moscow Planetarium, which became the hallmark of the architect. Four photos were taken at the angles, characteristic of the manners of Alexander Rodchenko — colleagues, colleague and friend Mikhail Sinyavsky. Archival and unpublished, they could be part of the shooting, footage of which became classics of Soviet photography.

To the era of 1930-х of years is the letter of Maximilian Voloshin in his watercolors.

the Following auction items are transferred into the world of unofficial Soviet culture. Ludmila Shtern, an archive which has preserved unique evidence of this erawas friendly with almost all the important figures of samizdat. Therefore, the collection includes autographs, letters and photos are not only a future Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, but his closest friends — Sergei Dovlatov, Anatoly Naiman, Dmitri Bobyshev, Eugenia Reina and Alexander Kushner. Particularly noteworthy autograph "army" poem of the future author of "the Zone" by Sergei Dovlatov, "classic samizdat" collection of Eugene Rhine, inscription of Joseph Brodsky on the compilation "Part of speech" and his own poem, given to mother Ludmila Shtern Hope Cramboy 95-летие. To her are addressed and preserved in the archive of letters to Nina Berberova and Sergei Dovlatov.

Nearly fifty lots, including rare postcards from the early twentieth century photographs of the actors who have received international recognition, — Vaslav Nijinsky, Mathilde Kschessinska, Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina, — entered into the category of "Russian ballet". The Soviet school represented autographs and photos of Alla Shelest, Natalia Dudinskaya, Irina Kolpakova, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova.

In closing the catalog section, "Photograph" stands out, without exaggeration, unique snapshots of events of the First aviation weeks and the all-Russia holiday of Aeronautics, footage depicting the pioneers of the Russian aviation. It is necessary to note also the author's prints of Vladimir Sychev — one of the most famous Soviet photographers, who have achieved in exile, international recognition, by the Dutch photographer rineke Dijkstra, and pictures Annie Leibovitz during her stay in Moscow.

the Auction will be held on Saturday, November 17. Beginning at 16:00 (GMT).

the Auction will be held at the address: Germany, Hamburg, St. Valentinskamp, 62 DE-20355.

to Participate in the auction online.

Phone: 49 (0) 40 3501 9365, e-mail: [email protected].

Source: press-релиз auction house Artmaximum