Zhmeryn ghetto (1941-1944) / Zhmerynske getto (1941-1944)
ID:
4896
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
Zhmeryn ghetto (1941-1944) / Zhmerynske getto (1941-1944)
Author:
Mykhailo Cherny
Original name:
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Date:
1994
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, genre painting
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
74x66 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1453, КП – 6348
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
A multi-figure composition. Behind the barbed wire is a group of people (explanatory, large-scale image). On the left, alongside a wooden pole with a sign and an inscription: "under threat of execution" - three guys (holding the wire) wearing brown clothes, the middle one has a black beret on his head, the right one has a six-pointed Star of David on his left hand. Faces with almond-shaped eyes, thin, exhausted. In the center is an old woman with a child in her arms. To the left is a black-haired young woman in a pink blouse with a six-pointed star on her left hand (head in left profile, figure in full face). In front of her is a girl wearing a gray headscarf covering half of her face. In the background, in the center, there are figures in light clothes. To the right and left are red and brown buildings. The sky is dark blue. At the top right is the author's signature in black: "Zhmerynske ghetto (1941-1944), 66 x 74, oil on canvas. 1994 Chornyi Mykhailo Nikiforovych, born in 1933. Vinnytsia, Pushkina, 2".
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:
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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