Igor Vitalievich Savitsky

Igor Vitalievich Savitsky ( Russian Игорь Витальевич Савицкий , scientific. Transliteration Igor 'Vital'evič Savickij , English Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky , also Sawitzki transcribed; * 4. August 1915 in Kiev , Russian Empire ; † 27. July 1984 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet painter , archaeologist and collector , especially the avant-garde - Art . He founded the state art museum of the Republic of Karakalpakistan , which is partly named after him, with its seat in Nukus , Uzbekistan (see also main article: Nukus Art Museum ).

Life and work

Igor Sawizki was born in Kiev in 1915 into a relatively wealthy family. He learned the profession of electrician . In 1950 he first visited Karakalpakistan to take part in the "Khorezm" Archaeological & Ethnographic Expedition , which had been conducting research since the 1930s and was led by Sergei Pavlovich Tolstov . He moved to Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakistan, and lived there until his death in 1984. From 1957 to 1966, he built an extensive collection of jewelry, carpets, coins, clothing and other artefacts from the region and convinced them Authorities from the need for their own museum. After the museum was founded, he was appointed curator in 1966 .

As a result, Sawizki also collected thousands of works by Central Asian artists such as B. Orol Tansiqboyev and Wiktor Ufimzew from the school of the Uzbeks, and later those of the Russian avant-garde such as B. Kliment Redko , Lyubow Popowa , Vera Muchina , Ivan Kudrjaschow or Robert Falk , whose pictures were undesirable in the Soviet Union under the dictatorship of Josef Stalin .

biography

Sawizki and the collection he assembled was the subject of the documentary "The Desert of Forbidden Art", which was made under the direction of Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev . Ben Kingsley gave the voice in the movie Sawizki. The film premiered at Globians Doc Fest in 2010 .

Marinika Babanazarova, director of the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakistan, wrote the biography Igor Savitsky: Artist, Collector, Museum Founder in 2011 , which was also published in French .

Sawizki's books

• Igor Vitalievich Savitsky: Gossudarstvennyj musei iskusstw ​​karakalpakskoi ASSR . Moscow 1976.
• Igor Vitalievich Savitsky : Narodnoje prikladnoje iskusstvo karakalpakow. Resba po derewy . Tashkent 1965.

Web links

• The Australian television broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) produced a roughly 15-minute program in 2002 about the collection assembled by Sawizki in the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakistan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Savitsky Museum of Art or simply Nukus Museum The largest Collection of Russian Avantgarde Art .
2. ↑ Homage to Savitsky , Uzbek Journeys.
3. ↑ Savitsky's Museum. Art that makes us better , Advantour February 21, 2012.
4. ^ Exhibition for the 100th anniversary of Igor Savitsky in Tashkent , August 5, 2015.
5. ↑ Savitsky's Museum. Art that makes us better , Advantour February 21, 2012.
6. ↑ Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea , New York 2004, Vintage Books, pp. 323-324, ISBN 0-375-42130-0 .
7. ^ Exhibition for the 100th anniversary of Igor Savitsky in Tashkent , August 5, 2015.
8. ↑ See the overview under: Savitsky Collection .
9. ↑ The Toxic Uzbek Town and Its Museum of Banned Soviet Art .
10. ^ Film website: The Desert of Forbidden Art and The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010) .
11. ↑ Savitsky's Museum. Art that makes us better , Advantour February 21, 2012.
12. ↑ Marinika Babanazarova, Igor Savitsky: Artist, Collector, Museum Founder , London 2011 ,: Silk Road Publishing House, ISBN 978-0-9557549-9-9 .
13. ↑ Book about Igor Savitsky published in French , UzDaily, April 27, 2012.
14. ^ Keepers of the Lost Art - Uzbekistan , youtube.