1924 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Events in 1924 involving art in the USSR

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The year 1924 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

January 26 — Petersburg was renamed to Leningrad.
January 29 — The VI Exhibition of AKhRR named «Revolution, the everyday life and work» was opened in Moscow in the State Historical Museum. Exhibited 499 works of painting and sculpture of 134 authors. The participants were Mikhail Avilov, Abram Arkhipov, Mikhail Bobyshov, Alexander Vakhrameev, Nikolai Dormidontov, Yuly Klever, Piotr Kotov, Vasily Svarog, Rudolf Frentz, and other important Russian artists.^[1]
May 11 — A bronze monument to Vatslav Vorovsky was unveiled in Moscow in front of building of the Narkomindel - the Ministry of External Relations of the Soviet Russia. Author of the monument sculptor Jacov Katz.
June 1 — The last Exhibition of Mir iskusstva art group was opened in Petrograd in the Museum of City (former Anichkov Palace). Exhibited 351 works of 47 authors. The participants were Alexandre Benois, Alexander Golovin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Vladimir Konashevich, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Zinaida Serebriakova, Georgy Vereisky, and other important Russian artists.^[2]

Births

April 22 — Anatoliy Nasedkin (Russian: Наседкин Анатолий Леонидович), Russian soviet painter, People's Artist of the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic (died 1994).
May 15 — Maya Kopitseva (Russian: Копытцева Майя Кузьминична), Russian soviet painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, (died 2005).^[3]
June 28 — Vadim Sidur (Russian: Вадим Абрамович Сидур), Russian soviet sculptor (died 1986).

Deaths

October 26 — Aleksandr Makovsky (Russian: Маковский Александр Владимирович), Russian painter, graphic artist, and art educator, a member of art group Peredvizhniki, professor of Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg Honored Art (born 1969).
December 24 — Yuly Klever (Russian: Клевер Юлий Юльевич), Russian painter and art educator (born 1850).

Aleksandr Makovsky

^ Каталог VI выставки картин «Революция, быт и труд». М., АХРР, 1924.
^ Каталог выставки группы художников «Мир искусства». Петроград, Общество «Долой неграмотность», 1924.
^ Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. P.347.

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