Russian Russian Artist Igor Grabar, an exhibition from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the I.E.Grabar All-Russian Scientific and Restoration Center, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents, the Vologda Museum-Reserve and the Egorievsky Historical and Art Museum, opened on November 6 at the Russian House in Bratislava.
The Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation M.E.Shvydkoi addressed the guests with a welcoming speech, who noted the versatility of the talent of I.E. Grabar – an artist, scientist, public figure, restorer – and thanked the organizers for creating in a short time a worthy exhibition about a devoted servant of Russian art.
In his speech, the Russian Ambassador to Slovakia, I.B.Bratchikov, recalled I.E.Grabar’s Rusyn origin: his father, a Rusyn public figure and a member of the Hungarian parliament, Emmanuel Grabar, and his mother, Olga Dobryanskaya, who were engaged in educational activities in Galicia, were supporters of the Slavophile movement in Ugric Russia, as a result of which they were forced at the end of the XIX century together emigrate to Russia with children.
The art and photographic documentary exhibition tells about Igor Grabar (1871-1960) in all his guises – an artist, a reformer of museum business, one of the organizers of the All-Russian protection and restoration of ancient monuments. The exhibition includes photographs and video materials about his life and work, as well as numerous publications in which he published his scientific works, catalogs of artistic works of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1912 and 1917 and catalogs of his personal exhibitions in 1947 and 1951. Reproductions of key works by I.E.Grabar – bright, spectacular, life-affirming – from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum are presented.
