The Artists' Union of the USSR (russian: Союз художников СССР, translit=Soyuz khudozhnikov SSSR) was a
creative union of the Soviet
artists and
art critics embracing the
Republics
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of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
.
The Union was founded started in 1932 to supersede the
AKhRR
The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (russian: Ассоциация художников революционной России, ''Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsionnoi Rossii'', 1922–1928), later known as Association of Artists ...
. The integral Union was instituted in 1957.
By January 1, 1976, the Union included 14,538 members.
In was officially disbanded at its 8th Congress in January 1992 after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, with its rights distributed over the corresponding unions in the
post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also known as the former Soviet Union (FSU), the former Soviet Republics and in Russia as the near abroad (russian: links=no, ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye zarubezhye), are the 15 sovereign states that wer ...
.
History
Prior to the Artists' Union of the USSR, there existed the Union of Soviet Artists (Союз советских художников, ''Soyuz sovetskikh khudozhnikov''), which was founded by
Alexander Grigoriev in Moscow in spring 1930. It included Moscow and Leningrad artists along with former members of the
AKhRR
The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (russian: Ассоциация художников революционной России, ''Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsionnoi Rossii'', 1922–1928), later known as Association of Artists ...
. The first exhibition of the Union of Soviet Artists was held on 15 April 1931 in Moscow at the exhibition hall of the co-operative society Khudozhnik. The Union of Soviet Artists ceased to exist in 1932 following a government decision.
Following the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Artistic Organizations" by the
Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on 23 April 1932, unions of Soviet artists were established in the Union and autonomous republics, in krais, in oblasts, and in cities to supersede previous organizations.
The first Congress of the Artists' Union of the USSR was convened in February–March 1957.
In
Moscow
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they built the
Central House of Artists which was opened in 1979.
Chairmen of the Artists' Union of the USSR
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Konstantin Yuon
Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon (russian: Константи́н Фёдорович Юо́н; – April 11, 1958) was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian A ...
- 1957–58
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Sergei Gerasimov - 1958–64
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Boris Ioganson
Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (russian: Борис Владимирович Иогансон, – 25 February 1973) also commonly known as B. V. Johanson, was a Russian and Soviet painter and educator.
Biography
Ioganson was born on in Mosco ...
- 1965–68
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Yelena Belashova - 1968–71
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Nikolai Ponomaryov - 1971–88
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Valeri Sidorov - 1988–1992
Notes
References
Soviet art
Civic and political organizations based in the Soviet Union
1932 establishments in the Soviet Union
1992 disestablishments in Russia
Arts organizations established in 1932
Arts organizations disestablished in the 20th century
Trade unions in the Soviet Union
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