In Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum recently opened a grand exhibition "Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde", in which will be displayed around 500 works by Malevich, Chagall, Chashnik, Goncharova, Larionov, Rodchenko and others

Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
October 19, 2013 - February 2, 2014

in the Stedelijk Museum ( Museum of the City of Amsterdam ) recently opened a grand exhibition " Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-garde " in the year of cultural exchange between Russia and the Netherlands. The exhibition presents about 500 works - and his contemporaries : Marc Chagall , Chashnik , Boris Boris Ender , Xenia Ender , Maria Maria Vladimirovna Ender , George Ender , Natalia Goncharova , Vasily Kandinsky , Klyuna , Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov , El Lissitzky , Michael Matyushina , Michael Menkova , Vera Pestel , Lyubov Lyubov Popova , Ivan Puni , Alexander Rodchenko , , Nicholas Suetina , Vladimir Tatlin and Hope .

Kasimir Malevich Bather . 1917 Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam Source : stedelijk.nl

Kasimir Malevich Mystic Suprematism (red cross on a black circle). 1920 Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam Source : stedelijk.nl

Stedelijk Museum has the largest collection outside of Russia works by Kazimir Malevich. At its core - a collection of Nicholas Khardzhiev , which is now run by the Stedelijk Museum . The exhibition also presents works from the collection of Russian avant-garde George Costakis ( from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki ) . These two legendary collection of Russian avant-garde show for the first time in one exhibition . After Amsterdam, the exhibition will also show at the Tate Modern in London and the Exhibition Centre Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn .

Kasimir Malevich grinder . Circa 1913 Yale University Art Gallery Source : stedelijk.nl

Kasimir Malevich a woman with a newspaper on his lap . 1904 Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam Source : stedelijk.nl

Kazimir Malevich , the exhibition presents the central figure of Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century, it is not only the creator, but the teacher and the main defender of the new art . Artist , known worldwide for its abstractions , at the same time inspired and other progressive trends of the era - Impressionism , Symbolism , Fauvism and Cubism . On the artistic language of Malevich was also influenced by religious paintings and folk art . The exhibition features paintings, gouaches , drawings and sculpture from the Impressionist period to the Suprematist - the famous " Black Square " and the lesser-known figurative works .

particular note is the collection of graphics Malevich - the largest collection of his works on paper, from the ever presented at a public exhibition. These works come mainly from the collection of Khardzhiev .

In collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Khardzhiev , according to studies Hertha Imanse (Geurt Imanse) and Frank van Lamo (Frank van Lamoen), is preparing to published the first comprehensive catalog of the works from the collection of Nicholas Khardzhiev .

prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : stedelijk.nl , artinvestment.ru