Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)

The rich tradition of French painting was an important influence on Russian art from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, a period that saw the rise of many of the most important movements in modern art. A magnificent visual record of an unprecedented event, this book, the catalogue of an ambitious exhibition of master paintings from the four greatest museums of Russia, examines the interaction of these two great cultures. Drawing on the collections of the State Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the book presents outstanding examples of Salon painting, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism in France, and related movements in Russia, among them The Wanderers, Constructivism, and Suprematism. Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Matisse are reproduced, along with works by Kandinsky, Tatlin, and Malevich. Key episodes in the story of this fascinating exchange include the vital role played by the great Russian collectors Ivan Morosov and Sergei Shchukin, whose preeminent collections of French art were an inspiration to the Russian avant-garde; the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev's promotion of Russian art in France in 1906; and Henri Matisse's visit to Russia in 1911.

French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St. Petersburg

From Russia

Jake Chapman

Groninger Museum

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Corning Museum of Glass

Helmut Ricke

Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art

Steinberg Foundation

The high artistic quality of Czech glass became known in the West only in the late 1970s. The artists drew attention to themselves mainly because they explored the sculptural potential of glass and claimed to create art works in their own right. As a result, Czech glass art established itself as the third European powerhouse together with Scandinavia and Murano. Since the 1980s, it has been the undisputed leader in European glass art.

Aufbruch Tschechisches Glas

Jean-Hubert Martin

The Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)

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