August 10 at 16.00 on the third floor of the main exposition of the VOKHM. I.N. Kramskoy will host the opening of the exhibition “Pyotr Gansky. Return”.

Voronezh public for the first time will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of Peter Gansky. The exhibition features watercolor sketches, picturesque and graphic landscapes of Russia, France, Italy. In total more than 100 works of the artist from a private collection (Estonia).

They testify to the outstanding talent of the artist, his belonging to the South Russian school. This is felt both in the transmission of light and airy fullness, and in the choice of a nature devoid of any spectacularity.

To date, works of Peter Gansky adorn the exposition of the Odessa Art Museum, National Museum of Ukraine, Nikolaev Art Museum. V.V. Vereshchagin and private collections of Odessa, Kiev, Tallinn, Moscow, Paris.

The Gansky family settled in Ukraine under Catherine II, when Stefan Ghansky, who served as secretary to Cardinal Richelieu, changed his lands in Galicia to lands in the province of Kherson.

He received his primary art education, visiting drawing classes at the Elisavetgrad Zemstvo real school; for four years – an auditor at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and, finally, – Paris, the School of Fine Arts with Jean Leon Gerome. Lived in France, every year coming to Odessa to participate in exhibitions of the Association of South Russian Artists. Participated in the spring exhibitions of the Academy of Arts (1901, 1908), exhibitions of the Society of Independent Artists in Odessa (1917). Exhibited in Paris at the Salon of the Society of French Artists (1900-1904) and the Salon of Independent (1910-1914). He studied at the Sorbonne, received a master’s degree in philosophy.

The revolution of 1917 caught the artist in Odessa. His estate was crushed, and he himself was sentenced to be shot. With the help of friends was released and in 1919 through Thessaloniki he reached France, where he settled in Paris. In 1922 he accepted Catholicism. Actively helped Russian refugees, contributed to the signing of the Roerich Pact by the head of the Roman Catholic Church Pius XI. Becoming a Catholic priest (1928), until the end of his life, he did not give up painting classes.

The exhibition will last until October 1.

Admission cost: for adults – 100 rubles, for privileged categories of citizens (pensioners, schoolchildren, students) – 50 rubles, preschoolers – for free. Photo and video shooting – 100 rubles.