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