Year 1970 | ||
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Location Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls, Leningrad | ||
Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1970 dedicated to 25th Anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany (Russian: "Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1970 года, посвящённая 25-летию Победы над фашистской Германией") was opened in Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists and become one of notable Art Exhibition of 1970 in the USSR.
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History and Organization
For the organization and preparation of Exhibition was formed Exhibition Committee in consist of authoritative art-experts. Exhibition Catalog was published. At whole Exhibition attended over 220 artists of the Leningrad.
Contributing Artists
In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited art works of 81 authors. There were Vladimir Andreev, Sergei Babkov, Nikolai Baskakov, Yuri Belov, Dmitry Belyaev, Alexander Blinkov, Veniamin Borisov, Dmitry Buchkin, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Nikolai Galakhov, Evgeny Galunov, Vasily Golubev, Alexander Gulayev, Nina Ivanova, Mikhail Kozell, Elena Kostenko, Anna Kostina, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Efim Latsky, Vladimir Malagis, Mikhail Natarevich, Yuri Neprintsev, Dmitry Oboznenko, Ivan Savenko, Vladimir Seleznev, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Joseph Serebriany, Nikolai Timkov, Yuri Tulin, and others painters of the Leningrad School.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 23 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 83 artists.
Contributed Artworks
For exposure have been selected works of painting, sculpture and graphics, applied art created by artists from Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad, as well as in during of postwar decades. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.
Acknowledgment
Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1970 was widely covered in press and in literature on Soviet fine art.