Bass, Anetta Yakovlevna

The daughter of Jacob Veniaminovich Bass and Elena Lvovna Kheifets ^[1] . She graduated from the Art History Department of the Faculty of History of Leningrad University , specialized in the history of ancient art of the Bosporus Kingdom of the 1st – 3rd centuries AD. e. In 1953 , after graduation, she returned to her hometown to work in the Kuibyshev Art Museum . In 1958 she was appointed director of the museum (she was the youngest among the directors of art museums in Russia) and held this position for 47 years, until the end of her life.

Bass's museum career began in the mid-1950s. from unsafe work to preserve the work of the avant-garde artists of the 1920s, prescribed by the CPSU leadership to be written off from the museum fund and destroyed: about 440 works of art from the late XIX - early XX centuries were saved. 1960s-70s passed in the museum under the sign of searching and collecting unique works among private collectors of the city of Kuibyshev (the museum’s fund was replenished as a result of the works of F. Rokotov , V. Borovikovsky , V. Tropinin , N. Ge and others) and the development of the provincial museum’s self-awareness, understanding of its cultural missions: it is no coincidence that in 1967 it was in the Kuibyshev Art Museum that the first conference of provincial art museums was held in Russia.

Since 1989 , after a significant expansion of museum space, the work of Anette Bass has developed with renewed vigor - especially in the direction of including the latest Russian and foreign art in the museum context. In 1995 , with the efforts of the Bass Museum, the book “From Modern to Avant-Garde” was published, which consolidated the leading position of the Samara Museum of Art among non-capital museum institutions. Bass's latest exhibition project was Andy Warhol 's retrospective.

A special merit of Anette Bass is the opening of the Repin House-Museum in the Volga village of Shiryaevo - in addition to the permanent exhibition, the Biennale of Contemporary Art is also held here.

In 1982, Anette Bass was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation , in 2000 - the State Prize of Russia in the field of literature and art.

In 2019, a street in the city of Samara was named after Anette Bass.

• From Modern to Avant-garde = From art Nouveau to Avantgarde art: Album / Samar. artist Museum Comp. Bass L.Ya. - M .: GALART, 1995 .-- 183 p. - ISBN 5-269-00834-3

• An article about Anette Bass in the Izvestia newspaper dated January 23, 2006
• An article about Anette Bass , Vremya Novostei N ° 9 January 23, 2006