The Society of Artists and Fine Art Lovers of the Steppe Territory (OHLISK) is a public organization established in Omsk in 1916 . With the emergence of this public organization, the organized artistic life of Omsk takes its origin. In the registered charter of the organization, in addition to the general development of arts in the region, the goal was to create an Art College named after M. A. Vrubel and a museum with it. The society is known for its competitions and exhibitions, one of the largest was the spring exhibition in April 1919. Society’s activities were discontinued in November 1919, after the Omsk was occupied by the Red Army.
Content
Charter and member list
Registered by the governor of Akmola region on May 23, 1916 , the charter lists the following goals of the company:
- association of artists of the Steppe region and lovers of fine arts on the basis of artistic interests;
- the device of the art-industrial school, which was planned to be named after M. A. Vrubel , a native of Omsk;
- distribution of artistic ideas to the general public through the organization of permanent and mobile exhibitions, public meetings of the Society with the reading of reports on artistic issues, lectures on art and art publications;
- the study of the artistic creativity of the local population, the protection of monuments of artistic antiquity and the arrangement of excursions for these purposes;
- device art-industrial museum with a library in the field of arts and arts;
- the provision of material assistance to needy artists and students of the art school by arranging a savings and loan fund [1] .
| List of members OHLIISK at the time of registration (1916) |
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Activity
Senior Chairman of the Omsk Court of Justice (since 1912). Patron, collector of works of art. Founder and chairman of the board OHLIISK until 1919.
The members of the future society began their activities at the beginning of the 20th century under the auspices of the East-Siberian branch of the Russian Geographical Society : joint classes were held in drawing and painting, arranging exhibitions, and giving lectures.
Starting as a private initiative of several patrons and art lovers, the Society received official status in 1916. In early June, elections were held board. Initially, it includes:
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Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Yedlichko, a lawyer, candidate of law, was unanimously elected chairman of the board, and from 1912 the chairman of the Omsk Court of Justice. A philanthropist and collector of works of art, he personally financed the activities of the Society, and before he died in 1919, he bequeathed his entire collection to a future museum.
After the death of Edlichko in January 1919, Boris Vladimirovich Truveller took the place of the chairman of the Society. An energetic entrepreneur, an organizer of forestry in Siberia, he was also an amateur artist and patron of the arts.
According to the structure, the Society was more a “club of interests” than an association of professionals. It consisted of local artists, collectors, patrons of art and people who are simply not indifferent to art. At various times there were 50–70 permanent members of the Society.
Timber merchant, amateur artist, chairman of the board Okhliisk in 1919.
The meetings of the Society were held in the building of the Public Assembly in the center of Omsk (now Lenin Street, 25). This building, built in 1859, is now attributed to the monuments of history and architecture of the XIX century, but is in a dilapidated state [2] .
The main form of work was the exhibition. The first exhibition opened in October 1916, where the works of professionals, amateurs and exhibits from collections of collectors were presented. For example, the writer Anton Sorokin exhibited 13 works by V. Ettel.
It was in the Society that the idea of creating an art school in the city was born, and the first practical steps were taken to implement it. To this end, in 1917, an art ball was held to raise funds for the organization of an art-industrial school (school) and a museum. Already after the revolution, this undertaking will be embodied in the creation in 1920 of the Artistic Industrial School, later the Artistic Industrial Technical School. M.A. Vrubel. Another step towards the creation of the school was the organization of art courses, whose director was A. N. Klementyev. Lecturers I. V. Volkov (junior department), N. K. Molochnikov (middle group), A. N. Klementyev (plastanatomy), V. F. Winkler (modeling), I. K. Kurtukov (painting, senior group) [3] .
In the short period of the CentroSibiri rule in 1918, the Society cooperated with the Department of Public Education under the Council of Soviets .
In February 1919 , under the leadership of the Russian government of A.V. Kolchak , the Society held a competition for the projects of the Russian State Emblem and the Orders “Revival of Russia” and “Liberation of Siberia” [4] .
The last bright event in the activities of the Company was the spring exhibition of 1919, which had about 50 participants and 400 works. The exhibition opened on April 24 in the building of the Polytechnic Institute. In addition to the works of contemporary artists, projects of the state emblem were exhibited in a separate room [5] .
November 14, 1919 Omsk was occupied by the troops of the Red Army . At the same time, the termination of the Company's activities.
1919 Spring Competition and Exhibition
Notes
- ↑ Charter of the Society of Artists and Fine Art Lovers of the Steppe Territory. - Omsk, 1916. - P. 1-7.
- ↑ Building of the Public Assembly (June 3, 2008). The date of circulation is January 12, 2012. Archived April 18, 2012.
- ↑ Devyatyarova Z. G. The artistic life of Omsk in the late XIX - the first quarter of the XX century // Omsk State. University: dissertation. - 2001.
- ↑ Tsvetkov V. Zh. White matter in Russia. 1919. - Moscow : Sowing, 2009. - pp. 38—39. - (Formation and evolution of the political structures of the White movement in Russia). - ISBN 9785858241843 .
- ↑ Devyatyarova I. G. Artists in the camp of Kolchak: Omsk in 1918-1919 // Antique review: magazine. - 2010. - № 1 .
Literature
- The Golden Age of art associations in Russia and the USSR: 1820-1932 / Ed. D. I am Severyukhin and O. L. Leykind. - SPb. : Publishing House Chernysheva, 1992. - ISBN 5855550044 .