Exhibition view

National Art Museum of Ukraine
Judaica Center of the National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’
Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

KULTUR-LIGE: ARTISTIC AVANTGARDE
of the 1910’s and the 1920’s
Dedicated to the  activities 
of Kultur-Lige Art Section

20.12.2007-20.01.2008
Opening: 20.12 (Thursday) at 5 p.m.

Curators: Leonid Finberg, Hillel Kazovsky

With the support of “Nadav” Foundation (Israel), the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and the Embassy of France in Ukraine

Kultur-Lige, one of the largest educational Jewish organizations, was created at the beginning of 1918 in Kyiv.  The aim of its activities was to develop culture in Yiddish. In the fall of 1918 its educational, publishing, library, music, theatre, literature and art sections were launched. In Kyiv, Kultur-Lige opened a People’s University, a gymnasia, a gymnasia for teachers and “Kultur-Liga” publishing house. A drawing section and a museum were attached to its Art Section.

The most significant phenomenon of Kultur-Lige activities was its Art Section. The exhibition shows more than 100 works from the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Kyiv Museum of Russian art, a number of regional museums, book collections of Vernads’kyi National Library of Ukraine, the Research Centre of the History and Culture of Eastern-European Jews, the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, and private collections from Israel and Ukraine.

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