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The First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung), which opened at the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on October 15, 1922, and later travelled to Amsterdam, introduced a broad Western audience to the most recent artistic developments in Russia. The extensive show – more than a thousand works, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures, stage designs, architectural models, and works of porcelain – was remarkably inclusive in its scope, which ranged from traditional figurative painting to the latest constructions of the Russian avant-garde. Coming on the heels of the Treaty of Rapallo, the exhibition was a first cultural step towards bilateral relations between two young and yet internationally isolated new states – the Weimar Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic. Moving away from the narrow focus on the avant-garde, the volume presents new research that examines the exhibition’s broader historical scope and cultural implications. The reception of the exhibition within artistic circles in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Japan in the 1920s is addressed, as well as the disposition of many of the works exhibited. The combination of longer, thematic essays and short features, along with reproductions of newly identified works and a selection of unpublished archival materials make this book valuable to both a scholarly and a general readership.

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Sebastian Borkhardt ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Sammlung und Wissenschaft der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Sebastian Borkhardt ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Sammlung und Wissenschaft der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Dr. Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier arbeitet als freie Historikerin und Kunsthistorikerin in Berlin. In zahlreichen Projekten und Publikationen hat sie sich v.a. mit der Geschichte staatlicher Kunstpolitik und der Institution Museum im 20. Jahrhundert beschäftigt. Ulrich Schmid (geb. 1965) ist seit 2007 Professor für Kultur und Gesellschaft Russlands an der Universität St. Gallen. Von 2010 bis 2014 war er Dekan der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Abteilung. Von 2005 bis 2007 war er Professor für Slavische Literaturwissenschaft an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, von 2003 bis 2004 SNF-Förderungsprofessor an der Universität Bern, von 2000 bis 2003 Assistenzprofessor an der Universität Basel. 2010 war er Gastforscher an der Universität Oslo, 1995 Visiting Fellow an der Harvard University. 2004 und 1997 absolvierte er Forschungsaufenthalte in Warschau und Krakau. 1998 war er Gastdozent an der Linguistischen Universität in Kiev. 1985 bis 1991 Studium der Germanistik, Slavistik und Politischen Wissenschaften in Zürich, Heidelberg und Leningrad. Seit 1994 ist er ständiger freier Mitarbeiter im Feuilleton der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung. Isabel Wünsche is Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University Bremen and an internationally renowned expert on modernism, the avantgarde movements, and abstract art. Miriam Leimer is a free-lance art historian and independent scholar based in Zurich with a research focus on the reception of Russian art in the 19th and 20th centuries. Isabel Wünsche is Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University Bremen and an internationally renowned expert on modernism, the avantgarde movements, and abstract art. Miriam Leimer is a free-lance art historian and independent scholar based in Zurich with a research focus on the reception of Russian art in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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