COOPERATION OF LEV GETS WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT UKRAINIAN ARTISTS 1931-1939

Abstract

The exhibition activity of Lev Gets (1896-1971) was presented for the first time in the projects of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists – ANUM (Asotsiatsiyi Nezalezhnykh Ukrayinsʹkykh Mysttsiv) (1931-1939). The exhibition activity of ANUM – interwar Lviv's most famous art organization, is briefly reviewed. This article includes a brief overview of the Association's exhibition projects and the creative collaboration of Lev Gets, in particular, the personal exhibition of the artist in 1934 organized by ANUM. Thanks to membership in the Association, Gets`s works were exhibited not only in Lviv museums but also in European exhibition halls. It has been established that the interwar decades were creatively productive: Lev Gets was actively engaged in painting and graphics, exploring his author's style. Numerous paintings of this period are filled with subjective and deeply personal experiences, which became the embodiment of artistic and emotional expressions of the interwar decades.

This study includes the historical documents of Lviv, the Institute of National Memory (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej), the archives of the Historical Museum in Sanok and the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome (Italy), printed materials of periodicals of that period.
All archival materials, descriptions and inventory of museum and archive files are being published for the first time. The participation of Lev Gets in the exhibition activities of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists, and his artistic creativity in the 1930s remained unexplored until today.
The purpose of the article is to present the work of Lev Gets in the exhibition projects of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists in 1931-1939.