Pyotr Ossovsky Exhibition at The State Russian Museum

Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:58

St. Petersburg, Russia - The State Russian Museum opens the exhibition of Pyotr Ossovsky from the “Jubilees” cycle in the Marble Palace.  One of the major Russian - Ukrainian artists of the 20^th century, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, member of the Academy of Arts Ossovsky was born in 1925.  He’s often referred to as the “father” of the so-called “harsh realism” in Russian painting.

The heroes of his paintings of the 1960s were geologists and construction workers who developed the uninhabited territories in Siberia.  His main theme is the life of Russian people, Russian character. He paints large-scale historical canvases, portraits of Russian mothers, Orthodox churches etc.

His personal exhibitions took place in Germany, Italy, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Finland, Spain.  The paintings of Ossovsky are kept in the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, regional museums, Russian and foreign private collections.

The State Russian Museum today is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative institute of academic research, a major educational center and the nucleus of a network of national museums of art.

The Russian Museum collection contains circa 400.000 exhibits.  The main complex of museum buildings - the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing - houses the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, tracing the entire history of Russian art from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.  The museum collection embraces all forms, genres, schools and movements of art.

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