Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers

FOREWORD In 1973 during his visit to Moscow, Marc Chagall spent several hours in the Pushkin Museum of the Fine Arts. He attentively studied the museum's displays and devoted more than an hour to the wonderful collection of drawings by Matisse, an artist with whom Chagall had been friendly and...

Pushkin's oeuvre, his personality and character have always attracted and inspired poets and artists, composers and performers. Ali of them strove to interpret Pushkin's image and bring out the underlying motifs of his creative work in their own way, focussing on the features close to their own...

Schadr Iwan Dmitrijewitsch (1887-1941) - hervorragender Bildhauer, einer der bedeutendsten sowjetischen Altmeister, die das Fundament der Kunst des sozialistischen Realismus legten. Sein Lenin-Denkmal am Staudamm des Wasserkraftwerks von Semo-Awtschalsk, an dem er in den Jahren 1925-1927 gearbeitet...