The National Museum of Art of Novgorod Land exhibition "M. Dobuzhinsky "Old Lithuania" from the funds of the Art Museum of Lithuania

The National Museum of Art of Novgorod Land exhibition opens MVDobuzhinsky "Old Lithuania" from the funds of the Art Museum of Lithuania.

Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957) - painter, graphic artist, theater artist, writer, critic, leader of the creative association" World of Art ».

• Mstislav Dobuzhinsky
  Vilnius street tilt. 1907. Source: artmus.natm.ru

Mstislav Valerianovich was born in Novgorod 2 (14) August 1875 artillery officer in the family of an old Lithuanian family. In his memoirs about his childhood Novgorod Dobuzhinsky very movingly conveys the unique atmosphere of a provincial, rich spirituality of the city. His mother was the daughter of Timothy Sophia, who served in the Church of Archangel Michael in Prussia street, next to which a parsonage. Childhood artist held in childish amusements on the shaft of the bast, in fights with the boys next Chudintsevoy street. A sense of calm, patriarchal life on "carotid Russian street," he kept in his heart for life.

childhood Dobuzhinsky were in moving. Nomadic life, new experiences had a profound impact on the future of the artist: All his life he would be interested in art and culture of different countries and peoples, historic monuments and their preservation, urban structures, architectural styles and ornamentation.

In Lithuania, M. Dobuzhinsky known primarily as a theater artist who has always remembered his Lithuanian roots. Since 1924, as a citizen of the Republic, he has successfully worked in prewar Kaunas. At the State Theater he designed more than 40 operas and drama productions, thus laying the foundation of the Lithuanian national scenery.

• Mstislav Dobuzhinsky Kaunas
  Zaliakalnis winter. 1939. Source: artmus.natm.ru

From the exhibition include species in Lithuania, which Lithuanian Fund (USA) acquired from the artist's son Vsevolod Dobuzhinsky and then presented to Lithuania. Caught in 1939 in the United States, M. Dobuzhinsky showed his works in the first American Lithuanians: in 1940 - in Boston (Massachusetts) in 1944 - in the Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania). Many years after the death of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, in 1973, figures from Lithuanian subjects briefly exposed in Brooklyn (New York). Since then, behind them, now as the loop, stuck the name "Old Lithuania».

Today Lithuanian landscapes Dobuzhinsky we care not only for its artistic merit, but also the fact that They saved the image of the outgoing Lithuania. The value of this vast cycle of landscapes is not only a historical and topographical accuracy, but above all in the amazing ability Mstislav Dobuzhinsky convey the beauty and poetry of "old". According to the memoirs of the Lithuanian artist Stasys Ushinskasa working with Dobuzhinsky, it "is not worried about urbanism and the inner life of the city, which he saw in the most ordinary things - a wall, roof or window, having, in his words, his past, his experiences."

image of the old Lithuanian Mstislav Dobuzhinsky at the State Museum of Art of Novgorod land - another opportunity to remind the people of Novgorod the great countryman.

exhibition will run until 7 November 2010.

Source: artmus.natm.ru