The lumiere Broters Gallery is a Russian art gallery founded in Moscow in 2001 by Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya. The gallery specializes in 1930s soviet-era photography. The gallery has promoted works from the Khrushchev Thaw era of Soviet history; it also presents works from Lithuanian artists.
The gallery contains photography from the 1930s up until the 1980s.
Work from Soviet constructivist photographers Boris Ignatovich, Jakov Khalip, and Mikhail Prekhner is included in the gallery. Their techniques – unconventional angles, tilted horizons, stark contrasts of light and shadow – reveal the influence of their teacher and associate Alexander Rodchenko and recall the formal experiments of Moholy-Nagy Laszlo and the New Objectivity group led by Albert Renger-Patzsch. [1]
The photography of Stalin’s era is represented by the socialist realism-style works of celebrated Soviet reporters such as Mark Markov-Grinberg, Emmanuil Evzerikhin and Arkady Shaikhet; architectural photography with iconic views of cityscapes, pioneered by the chronicler of Moscow life Naum Granovsky; [2] and reports from battlefronts by war correspondents such as Alexander Ustinov and Robert Diament.
The gallery has been at the forefront [3] of reintroducing and promoting the work of major photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, including Yuri Krivonosov, Yuriy Abramochkin, Lev Borodulin, Vladimir Lagrange, Igor Gavrilov, Lev Sherstennikov, Vladimir Bogdanov, Nina Sviridova, Dmitry Vozdvizhensky, Igor Gnevashev and others who, inspired by postwar optimism and liberal reforms, revived straight reportage [4] and gave a fresh impetus to artistic photography, to which they were introduced in photographic clubs spread across the USSR.
The gallery has works by Romualdas Požerskis, a Lithuanian photographer whose work stands out from Soviet photography due to its distinctive national aesthetic and techniques, such as the use of wide angle lenses, close-ups, and sharp contrasts. [5]
Postwar European and American art is represented by reporters of the golden age of photojournalism such as Steve Schapiro, Ruth Orkin and Sabine Weiss. They are noted for their unmanipulated self-portraits in landscape.
The gallery's Russian contemporary artists encompass a variety of styles which have appeared in Russian photography during the last three decades, including the 1980s underground artist Sergey Borisov, conceptualist Vadim Guschin, [6] one of the fathers of the St Petersburg school of photography, Alexander Kitaev, and contemporary architectural photographers Vladimir Antoschenkov and Igor Palmin, who was centered on Moscow modernism.
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.
Max Zakharovich Penson was a Russian-Jewish photojournalist and photographer of the Soviet Union noted for his photographs of Uzbekistan. Max Penson is one of the most prominent representatives of Uzbek and Soviet-era photography, especially Russian avant-garde, revered by prominent figures like Sergei Eisenstein. Penson's works have been featured in exhibitions across the globe, sponsored by the likes of Roman Abramovich and New York's MoMA.
Igor Vladimirovich Mukhin, also known as Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin, is a Russian photographer. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.
Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape paintings.
Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes.
Vladimir Alexandrovich Gorb was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. He lived and worked in Leningrad as professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of Russian Federation, and was member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. He is regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait paintings and Art teaching.
Mikhail Davidovich Natarevich was a Soviet, Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad; he was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, and was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.
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The year 1957 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.
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The year 1960 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The Leningrad School of Painting is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was united by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1932–1991).
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The year 1951 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
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Boris Maximovich Kosarev was a Soviet photographer, journalist, in 1930 - 1950 he was an official photographer of the Soviet government, who participated at key historical events, including the Yalta Conference of 1945. Boris Kosarev is the author of many famous photographs of political events and Soviet leaders.
Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich was a Soviet photographer, photojournalist, and cinematographer. He was a pioneer of Soviet avant-garde photography in the 1920s and 1930s, one of the first photojournalists in the USSR, and one of the most significant artists of the Soviet era.
Natalia Eduardovna Grigorieva-Litvinskaya is a founder and Chief Curator of The Lumiere Gallery (2001) – the first Russian photography gallery, aimed at encouraging promotion and sales of the finest Russian and European photographs in Moscow.
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