Baltic Exhibition in Malmö (Sweden) in 1914

[sergejnowo]

The Baltic exhibition. 1914 " From 15 May to 4 October 1914 in the Swedish city of Malmö was an exhibition of industrial achievement, arts and crafts of the Baltic countries, which was attended by Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Russia. Its program has not yet come to an end, when the outbreak of the First World War, which was attended by two members - Russia and Germany. For this reason, the exhibition was closed. (c)

This was the first in the XX century, foreign exhibitions of works by Russian artists from private collections (exhibitions and galleries), organized by the Association of Russian Artists, created in 1903 by donations from Russian gallery owners and private individuals.
In Malmo in 1914 were shown the masterpieces of Russian art of XX century:
1.Valentin Serov - 39 paintings, sketches and drawings, among them - Abduction of Europe, Portrait of the Minister of Finance SY Witte (1904), Portrait, EL Nobile (judging by the list sent by the Embassy of Russia in Sweden in the Department of Conservation of Cultural Property of the Ministry of Culture of Russia on Oct. 14, 2002, the date of the 39 Serov cultural values are available, only three, including a portrait of Witte);
2.Vasily Kandinsky - five paintings in abstraktsionistskom style (not preserved any);
3.Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin - seven paintings, including the Bathing of red horse (in the presence of left alone - Work, 1912);
4.Nikolay Roerich - 28 pictures (not preserved in any of Sweden).
Today in Malmö from 90 paintings were exhibited in 1914, remained around 40, with 26 of them hidden by the directorate of the museum to the store and not exposed (Valentin Serov, Martiros Sarian, Alexander Golovin, and others) because of fear that their require the return of descendants of the artists or the Ministry of Culture of Russia by their attorney. There is a catalog of the Baltic Exhibition 1914, which lists all works of art from Russia (with the Catalog can be viewed at the Department of Conservation of Cultural Property of the Ministry of Culture of Russia). (c)


Dear all, on the occasion of the acquisition of one of this exhibition, looking for any information on the topic in the first place:
- Exhibition catalog
- Photographs, documents, etc.
thanks in advance.

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3.Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin - seven paintings, including the Bathing of red horse (in the presence of left alone - Work, 1912);

Artist's widow, Maria Feodorovna only after the Second World War and after persistent and arduous negotiations in 1950, managed Venuti Bathing the Red Horse.
And only in 1961, the picture was in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin,
Bathing the Red Horse, 1912
Canvas, oil. 160 × 186 cm

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Today in Malmö from 90 paintings were exhibited in 1914, remained around 40, with 26 of them hidden by the directorate of the museum to the store and not exposed (Valentin Serov, Martiros Sarian, Alexander Golovin and others .) because of fear that their return would require the descendants of artists or the Ministry of Culture of Russia for their attorney. There is a catalog of the Baltic Exhibition 1914, which lists all works of art from Russia (with the Catalog can be viewed at the Department of Conservation of Cultural Property of the Ministry of Culture of Russia). (c)

Sweden will not return Russia pictures
According to the management of the Museum of Fine Arts Swedish city of Malmo, Russia can not demand the return of the paintings that remained here after the exhibition in 1914. "Location of works of art is not determined by the boundaries of countries" - said the museum director Göran Christenson in an interview on Swedish television.

It is about 50 paintings have been exhibited in the museum at the "Baltic Exhibition" at the beginning of last century. Their cost is estimated at tens of millions of euros. When the First World War, and then there was a revolution, the paintings remained in Sweden. In the future, many of the paintings have disappeared. Currently, according to curators remained only 6-7 pictures that are stored in compressed form.

One of the works presented at the exhibition - painting "Bathing the Red Horse" Petrov-Vodkin - yet returned to their homeland. For participation in the exhibition was a painter from the Swedish King Gustav V medal and diploma. Painting a long time remained in Sweden, then to the widow of the artist painting came into the collection known Leningrad Collector Worlds Konstantinovny Bacevich, who in 1961 gave her a gift to the Tretyakov Gallery.

Return the pictures stored in Malmo, trying initiative group acting on the request of the Russian Museum. "If Russia really wants to get back the picture, then the discussion should take place at the governmental level, - said director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Göran Christenson. - We are talking about very large sums, and I am skeptical about the initiative of individuals in such matters. "
http://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2006/03/30/n_574473.shtml

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If Russia really wants to get back the picture, then the discussion should take place at the governmental level.

What goes on the governmental level has been no discussion on this issue?
Why return the paintings stored in Malmo, trying to initiative group, acting at the request of the Russian Museum "?
What kind of "action groups"? Public figures? ZhEKovskie activists pensioners?

[Кирилл Сызранский]

If Russia really wants to get back the picture, then the discussion should take place at the governmental level.

What goes on the governmental level has been no discussion on this issue?
Why return the paintings stored in Malmo, trying to initiative group, acting at the request of the Russian Museum "?
What kind of "action groups"? Public figures? ZhEKovskie activists pensioners?
After 4 years will be a hundred years (a century!), As paintings in Malmo.
Do not have time to reclaim?
It's there, MF Petrov-Vodkin able to return "Bathing the Red Horse"? This means that in principle, possible that the rest of the masterpieces of Russian art will be returned?

[dedulya37]

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Do not have time to reclaim?

And who is she in Fig need this culture in Russia??

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And who is she in Fig need this culture in Russia??

For example, Permyaks ...
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=61051

[Eriksson]

From my notes from April 24, 2004:

In Stockholm today, the auction firm Auktsionverket provided on public display is designed to sell a unique work of Wassily Kandinsky - Watercolor, dated 1916 year, tentatively entitled "Impression of Sweden" - a gift to Paul Berre.
Watercolor is unique for several reasons. First, Vasily Kandinsky lived in Sweden, only 2 and a half months - from December 23, 1915 to March 15, 1916. The work of its artist gave the writer Paul Berre before departure - mean in the interval between 9 and 16m of March. Secondly, rare for Kandinsky's case - not only is a blue landscape depicts the spring the Swedish figure of a man - is to the same, and the portrait - the field itself Berre - leaning against a birch. Similarly recognizable characteristic highbrow Profile Berre, strongly reminiscent intravital bust of the writer and connoisseur of human souls, the work of Carl Milles - this sculpture Kandinsky saw the house at Berre. The third strange circumstance - Berre depicted against the background of his summer estate Vorstavi Lake Malmshe, which Kandinsky had never been. That is why in the landscape visible typical Swedish red-ohryanye houses, but actually in the house all Vorstavi vybelivalis lime. This could Kandinsky to tell his long-standing friend and former student Gabrielle Munter, who had been in the field name Berre, but apparently it in those days was not up to the stories and amendments. She said goodbye to loved ones. It was her who came from Munich to neutral Sweden, and came from Moscow Kandinsky, whom she fell asleep long reproachful letter - almost 13 years of episodic love relationships and separation, should have been according to the artist, to end marriage. This Kandinsky irritated. Gabriel had finally managed to lure Vasily Kandinsky in Stockholm under the pretext of the exhibition, organized it with the assistance of several prominent Swedish artists such as Gryunnevald and Prince Eugenio. Several paintings by Kandinsky brought to Sweden from Russia, a few watercolors quickly wrote in the walls of a boarding house Früh Luis Palm in the Stockholm Stureplan, where he poselilmsya with Gabriele Munter. Later couple moved atelier Jon Anda, where Kandinsky managed to write 4 large canvases. The exhibition is over, Wassily Kandinsky bye to Gabrielle Munter, and returned to Moscow where he met with the fall of 20 years, Nina Andrievsky and in February 1917, he married her, himself a 50ti age.
Exhibited to autsionu May 8 watercolor Wassily Kandinsky, Impression of Sweden, was found in the descendants of Berre in the box to the secretaire Vorstavi his estate, and in 1977 the work was kept in total darkness in a bank vault. That is why the preservation of exceptional watercolors - fresh paint, as if laid yesterday, and even almost glow. Initial price watercolors - about 7 million kroons, 800 thousand dollars.

I honestly do not traced for any money left work.

And in general on the presence of Kandinsky in Sweden written a book. Photo attached.

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2.Vasily Kandinsky - five paintings in abstraktsionistskom style (not preserved any);

So one job, although later, still survived!

[sergejnowo]

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And who is she in Fig need this culture in Russia??

Yeah ...
strange case.
They like and are not legally devil knows what, almost 100 years have passed though.

[vyadem]

Eriksson, "The Baltic exhibition. 1914." From May 15 to October 4 1914, the
and "In Stockholm today, the auction firm Auktsionverket provided on public display is designed to sell a unique work of Wassily Kandinsky - Watercolor, dated 1916 a year"
I understand that for years is not it ...