Before the storm / Pered hrozoiu
ID:
4506
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
Before the storm / Pered hrozoiu
Author:
Andriy Schneider
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1988
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, Still-life
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
52x40 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1270, КП – 5368
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher
Description:
Horizontal composition. Autumn landscape. In the foreground, in the right part of the composition, there is a withered field and a tree; in the center are trees bent to the right by a gust of wind. In the background, behind a flat horizontal strip of crop field, are the contours of a forest plantation. On the horizon line to the left and right are the outlines of tree crowns. The sky is pre-threatening with wide dark stripes. The color is based on a combination of bright local colors: yellow, ocher, dark red, and blue. The colors are applied with a palette knife. At the bottom right in dark red paint is the author's signature: "A. Schneider". At the bottom right in dark purple felt-tip pen - the author's signature: "Schneider A.B. 1963 "Before the storm" 1988 60x78 P / o". In the upper left corner of the image of the sky near the trees - barely outlined fine-mesh craquelure. The stretcher is blind. The sides of the unpainted wooden frame are made of two components.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2022
Place of the incident:
The Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
46.62979067231111, 32.609546919505945
Place of last known stay:
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Description of the incident location
It was opened on May 27, 1978, in the former City Hall building, an architectural monument of the early 20th century. As of 2022 (before the robbery), the museum's collection included more than 13 thousand works of art and was one of the most interesting museum collections in Ukraine. It includes works of Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. From October 31 to November 4, 2022, the Kherson Art Museum was looted by the russian occupiers, and more than 10,000 of its most valuable exhibits were stolen. The cargo was sent to Crimea, and the works (all or part of them) ended up in the Simferopol Central Museum of Tavrida. It is unknown whether everything is still there.
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