Artists' Union of the USSR - Misplaced Pages

(Redirected from Union of Artists of the USSR)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Artists' Union of the USSR" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Creative union in the USSR (1932-1992)

The Artists' Union of the USSR (Russian: Союз художников СССР, romanized: Soyuz khudozhnikov SSSR) was a creative union of the Soviet artists and art critics embracing the Republics of the Soviet Union.

The Union was founded started in 1932 to supersede the AKhRR. The integral Union was instituted in 1957. By January 1, 1976, the Union included 14,538 members.

It was officially disbanded at its 8th Congress in January 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with its rights distributed over the corresponding unions in the post-Soviet states.

History

Prior to the Artists' Union of the USSR, there existed the Union of Soviet Artists (Союз советских художников, Soyuz sovetskikh khudozhnikov), which was founded by Alexander Grigoriev in Moscow in spring 1930. It included Moscow and Leningrad artists along with former members of the AKhRR. The first exhibition of the Union of Soviet Artists was held on 15 April 1931 in Moscow at the exhibition hall of the co-operative society Khudozhnik. The Union of Soviet Artists ceased to exist in 1932 following a government decision.

Following the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Artistic Organizations" by the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on 23 April 1932, unions of Soviet artists were established in the Union and autonomous republics, in krais, in oblasts, and in cities to supersede previous organizations.

The first Congress of the Artists' Union of the USSR was convened in February–March 1957.

In Moscow they built the Central House of Artists which was opened in 1979.

Chairmen of the Artists' Union of the USSR

Konstantin Yuon - (1957–58)
Sergei Gerasimov - (1958–64)
Boris Ioganson - (1965–68)
Yelena Belashova - (1968–71)
Nikolai Ponomaryov - (1971–88)
Valeri Sidorov - (1988–1992)

Notes

The title in accordance with the English edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Also referred to as the USSR Union of Artists or the Union of Artists of the USSR.

References

^ A. M. Prokhorov, ed. (1980). "Artists' Union of the USSR". Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Vol. 24 (3rd ed.). New York; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers. p. 15. OCLC 59306354. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
"Художественные объединения и творческие союзы России на рубеже XIX-XX вв". Art-Katalog.com (in Russian). Retrieved 9 July 2016.
"Открытие юбилейной выставки, посвященной 75-летию Пензенского отделения Союза Художников РФ" (in Russian). Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
Rueschemeyer, Marilyn; Golomshtok, Igor; Kennedy, Janet (1985). "The History and Organization of Artistic Life in the Soviet Union". Soviet Emigré Artists: Life and Work in the USSR and the United States. New York; London: M. E. Sharpe. p. 37. ISBN 0-87332-296-7.
"История — Центральный дом художника (ЦДХ)". cha.moscow. Central House of Artists. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

v t e Years in the history of fine arts of the USSR
1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

Years in the history of fine arts of the USSR

This article about an art or artists' organization is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: