The picture of Nicholas Zagrekov "" Gert "attack (with a ball - Hannah) [1] from the State Russian Museum on display at the exhibition" Sport in Art "in the halls of the Criminal Code" Novy Manege in Moscow from 20 to 31 October 2009 . The exhibition is organized by the State Russian Museum with the participation of the Foundation for Community support for the arts "Art Line".
The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, print graphics, posters and decorative art from the collection of the Russian Museum, as well as sculpture and photography from the Foundation for Community support for the arts "Art Line". In 1920 sports, as in the Soviet Union and in Germany, was a mass movement, play sports was modern, sports were regarded as an expression of mobility, health and youth. Sport as an integral part of training a person to any difficulties becomes the leitmotif of many works of artists. Shown in the exhibition of paintings by Alexander Deineki "Running" and "Razdole, Alexander Samokhvalov the stadium" and "Girl in a T-shirt, Sergei Luppova" Sports stadium "perform a certain ideological mission, and, nevertheless, their artistic energy and perfection of the greatly expanded scope of social order and solve the perennial problem for art harmonic ideal.
Zagrekov finds in the sport of the initial pulse for the imagination: full-scale productions and finished compositions, manifestations of human psychology and color power of the spectacle.Interest in rhythm to the characteristic posture, combined with the cult of the healthy, trained body, is also consistent with the aesthetics of both countries prepare for the decisive battle for world domination. At this time Zagrekov wrote "Three football players," Hertha Berlin "attack (with a ball - Hannah)", "thrower of the nucleus", "javelin thrower", which are evidence of mastery of the artist in a monumental genre. These works have appeared in various exhibitions, criticism of those years, wrote: "The Art Zagrekov presented vivid and dynamic.
In the catalog for the exhibition, published by the State Russian Museum, included three works Zagrekov: apart of exhibited paintings, two drawings: "javelin thrower at the Olympics" (1930) and "Hannah Ball" (1930)
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[1] "Gert" (German: Hertha BSC Berlin) - German football club from Berlin, founded in 1892 and the current date. In 1930 the club won the championship in Germany. Hannah Zobek - a famous footballer in Germany 1930.
