Memorable dates of Russia: The exhibition “Frontline artist” to the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Novgorod from Nazi invaders

January 20, 2016, on the 72th anniversary of the liberation of Novgorod from the Nazi invaders in the exhibition hall of the Novgorod Museum Reserve is opened the exhibition "Frontline artist".

The exhibition is part (more than 30 drawings) of the unique heritage of the graphic collection of the Novgorod Museum Reserve, created by the artist directly in wartime, especially during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The exhibition will be open until February 15, 2016.

Among the exhibits a special attention should be front-line figures, which reflect the events associated with the liberation of Novgorod from the Nazi invaders. The first days of the life of a liberated city are depicted in sketches of witnesses and direct participants in the events of January 20, 1944: artists Yaroslav Titov and Yuri Podlyasky. These works are not only the accuracy of the fact, what the artist saw and captured, but also a strong emotional charge, while allowing the viewer to feel the joy of victory and the pain of irreparable loss and destruction.  

Theme of destruction of monuments and architectural buildings of Novgorod during the Nazi occupation are also devoted a series of color lithographs "Liberated Novgorod" by Vasily Dyakov and graphics studio staff martial of artists M. Grekov, Victor Klimashin and the creative association "Fighting Pencil" by Nikolai Kochergin.

On the formation of the ideological and psychological treatment of the personnel of the armed forces of the enemy in the exhibition are told by sketches for the anti-fascist propaganda playing cards made in the manner of a caricature artist Vasily Vlasov during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.