Museum of Artistic Culture

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The Museum of Artistic Culture was conceived in June 1918 as a means of disseminating contemporary art through a network of participating institutions revolving around the two central museums, the principal one in Moscow, with a second one in Petrograd. [1]

Following a meeting on 1 June 1918 Alexei Karev, Nathan Altman and Aleksandr Matveyev constituted the Commission to decide which artists should be featured in the museum. By December 1918 they had drawn up a list of 143 painters which Anatoly Lunacharsky the head of the People's Commissariat for Education approved. [1] The list was published in Iskusstvo kommuny, and the museum was opened on 3 April 1921. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Railing, Patricia. "The Museum of Artistic Culture". www.incorm.eu. InCoRM Association. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  2. Kovtun, Evgueny (2014). Russian Avant-Garde. Parkstone International. ISBN   9781783103812.