Art scientific restoration center. Commercial expertise at the grabber center

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Federal government agency culture "All-Russian artistic scientific- restoration center named after Academician I.E. Grabar" (VKhNRTS) - the oldest state restoration organization in Russia - was founded on June 10, 1918 on the initiative of the artist and art researcher Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar, under the Department for Museum Affairs and the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquities of the People's Commissariat of Education (32 th department of the People's Commissariat of Education) of the RSFSR in the form of the All-Russian Commission for the Preservation and Disclosure of Old Russian Painting. I.E. was appointed chairman of this commission. Grabar. In 1924, the commission was transformed into the Central State Restoration Workshops (TSRM). Through the efforts of I.E. Grabar in the Central State Museum of Art brought together the best of the national scientific restoration of that time: both outstanding art scientists and experienced restoration practitioners.

In 1934 the Center was liquidated. Some of the leading employees of the Center were subjected to repression, up to the “highest measure of social protection.” The accusations, of course, are false, but in the conditions of that time they were almost “deserved”: “propaganda of religion” under the guise of preserving culture. Fortunately, I.E. Grabar was a figure of such magnitude that he was not touched. The return of restorers from disgrace is a “merit” of the war. As the occupied part of the USSR was liberated, the scale of damage caused by the war not only to the economy, but also to culture - historical monuments and artistic values - became clearer. On September 1, 1944, the Council of People's Commissars issues Order No. 17765-r, signed by the deputy. Chairman V. M. Molotov on permission for the Committee for Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR to organize a Central Art Restoration Workshop. Naturally, the most experienced I.E. Grabar was brought in for the organization, who, having become the artistic director of the “new” workshop, actually recreated the old ones, attracting surviving restorers for this, even recalling them from the fronts. It is thanks to I.E. Grabar that the current Center is rightly considered the successor of those workshops that began in 1918.

Over the nearly century-long history of the center, through the efforts of its employees, thousands of fine and decorative monuments have been preserved for domestic and world culture. applied arts. Among these monuments are frescoes of Novgorod and Vladimir churches, cathedrals of the Moscow Kremlin, ancient Russian icons, including such shrines as “Our Lady of Vladimir” “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev; painting from the collection of the Dresden Gallery, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin; panorama “Battle of Borodino” by F. Roubaud; medieval manuscripts and ancient ceramics.

From 1986 to 2010, the Center was headed by the artist and art critic Alexey Petrovich Vladimirov. In the difficult conditions for all cultural institutions of the last decades, the All-Russian Scientific and Cultural Center managed to preserve the best traditions of the restoration school, laid down by I. E. Grabar and his associates.

VKHNRTS specializes in conservation, restoration, examination of monuments of oil painting, icon painting, graphics (including on a parchment base), books (including “incunabula”), monuments of wooden, stone, plaster and oriental lacquer sculpture, objects of applied art (metal , bone, sewing and fabrics, ceramics).

Center today

Corridor. Along the walls lie 18th-century icons laid out to dry from one of the northern churches, sent to Moscow for restoration. Premises before the fire

Today, the Center is one of the few restoration organizations that have a time-tested system for training new employees. Back in 1947, the State Center of Artists and Artists adopted the “Regulations on Restoration Artists,” which obligated each master to “constantly improve: a) in the history and theory of art; b) according to the methodology of restoration processes; c) according to the general artistic level (execution creative works in accordance with one’s specialty - drawing, painting, modeling, copying, etc.).”

Since 1955, the Center was among the founders and permanent participants of the State Certification Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, which determined the level of skill of restorers. The center was at the origins of the creation of a state system for training new restoration personnel, and currently it is one of the few cultural institutions that carefully preserves the order of consistent advanced training of young specialists that has developed over decades. As a rule, new employees coming to the departments of VKhNRTS have a higher or secondary specialized art education. They learn the basics of the profession under the guidance of restorers of the highest and first categories. Gradually, as they acquire new knowledge and experience, they are allowed to work with increasingly complex exhibits.

VKHNRTS closely cooperates with the domestic and international museum community; its specialists have taken an active part in the work of the Russian branch of ICOM UNESCO since its founding. Now the Center’s partners include more than 200 museums, restoration workshops and research organizations in Russia and countries near and far abroad.

VKHNRTS employees conduct inspections and restoration of museum exhibits and funds on site during business trips, accept museum restorers and curators for internships, and exchange scientific information with Russian and foreign colleagues during numerous conferences and exhibitions.

Training of restoration personnel at VKhNRTS

VKhNRTS today is not only a restoration and research organization, but also a scientific and methodological base of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, including the training of qualified personnel for restoration centers, workshops, and restoration departments of Russian museums.

Before the Great Patriotic War and immediately after its completion, the USSR did not yet practice the training of restorers in special educational institutions, although the need for them was enormous, especially in the post-war years. First of all, what was needed was not so much high-class restoration artists to restore what had been lost, but conservation restorers to provide “first aid” to damaged monuments - capable of monitoring the safety of museum funds, preventing the final loss of historical and artistic values, carry out urgent conservation and, to the extent possible, simple restoration work.

To solve this important task, the Central State Restoration Workshops, as the Grabar Center was then called, in 1955 organized two-year training courses for restorers of easel painting, graphics, sculpture and applied art objects. Course participants underwent the necessary training, not only practical, but also general cultural theoretical, and, having received qualification certificates indicating the list of works that they were allowed to perform, became a real salvation for thousands of exhibits in many museums Soviet Union. Best graduates were hired by the TSRM, many of them are to this day the pride of the Center.

Currently, the training of restoration personnel in Russia usually consists of two stages: in a number of artistic educational institutions restoration faculties and departments have been opened throughout the country, after which graduates undergo internships with experienced practitioners.

It is this kind of mentoring that is traditional for VKhNRTS - a qualified and experienced artist-restorer supervises for several years, teaching in practice, the work of students, bringing them to a high professional level.

In order to train and retrain restorers for the country's museums, the All-Russian Scientific and Research Center has developed a system of internships in various departments with mandatory reading of theoretical courses on technology, restoration methods and various types pre-restoration and restoration studies of monuments (physical, chemical, x-ray, biological, etc.). Internships are carried out on the basis of agreements between VHNRTS and interested organizations and individuals.

Fire 2010

At the beginning of 2011, an employee of the manuscript restoration department, Evgenia Osipova, for rescuing ancient manuscripts from a fire, incl. Spassky Gospel of the 13th century, was awarded the “Own Track” Prize named after V.S. Vysotsky for 2010.

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Kommersant reports that the Ministry of Culture may soon prohibit the All-Russian Art Scientific and Restoration Center named after Grabar (VKhNRTS) from carrying out a commercial examination...

At the moment, VKhNRTS remains the last state institution engaged in the commercial examination of works of art for private individuals and individuals. Russian museums lost the right to issue expert opinions back in 2006 - due to scandalous errors in the attribution of paintings by Russian artists. According to Svetlana Vigasina, deputy director for science of the All-Russian Scientific Research Center, the center’s employees are indeed waiting for a letter from the Ministry of Culture, but “most likely there will be no talk of a ban,” they will simply ask to sort out the documents.

In September, the "grabari" changed their director - instead of the dismissed Alexei Vladimirov, Evgenia Perova, his former deputy, took the leadership position. The reason for the changes could have been a fire on July 15, 2010, which resulted in the destruction of two works of art: a carpet from the Muranovo estate and a banner from the Peter the Great era from the Pereslavl-Zalessky Museum. Many works that were undergoing examination and restoration at the center were badly damaged, and Mr. Vladimirov criticized the activities of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, saying that “out of 58 damaged works, 8 were damaged by fire, 50 by firefighters.”

However, it is possible that other problems were the reason for the termination of the contract with Alexey Vladimirov. In July 2010, one of the collectors who submitted their works for examination to the Grabar center wrote a statement to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he reported “illegal actions of A. R. Kiseleva,” the head of the examination department. At the same time, it turned out that the center continued until June 2010 to issue examinations on invalid forms with the heading of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (to which the Grabar center actually belonged until 2008, when the agency was disbanded).

If the Grabar Center stops issuing expert opinions on the letterhead of the Ministry of Culture, this will mean that the state has finally withdrawn from the art market, leaving its participants to figure it out for themselves. This scheme operates in Europe, where state museums are engaged in science and exhibitions, and private experts (who can be both scientists and art dealers) are engaged in commercial expertise. On the one hand, this is a blessing - you can sue a private expert who issued an incorrect conclusion and demand compensation for damages (try sueing the state).

On the other hand, there may be problems. Other experts, besides well-known employees largest museums and VKHNRTS, there is nowhere to get it yet. It would be quite logical if, after the ban on conducting examinations at the place of work, VKhNRTS experts create some kind of independent institute that will provide private collectors and art dealers with the expert opinions they need.

The examination will be done by the same people on the same equipment and using the same museum comparative databases - as is happening now, for example, in the Scientific Research Independent Expertise named after P. M. Tretyakov (NINE), created by Tretyakov Gallery employees after They were forbidden to carry out examinations at the museum. No one has tried to sue NINE yet.

After the ban on conducting examinations, specialists from the Russian Museum provide private individuals with “consulting services of a scientific research nature.” St. Petersburg collector Konstantin Azadovsky, dissatisfied with these services, for example, discovered that the contract included a clause stating that the written result of the research, no matter what it turned out to be, was not subject to transfer to the judicial authorities.

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Corner of Radio and Baumanskaya streets. The former building of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise TsAGI. Now the building of the restoration center

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The Federal State Cultural Institution “All-Russian Art Scientific and Restoration Center named after Academician I. E. Grabar” (VKhNRTS) - the oldest state restoration organization in Russia - was founded on June 10, 1918 on the initiative of the artist and art researcher Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar, under the Department of Museum Affairs and the protection of monuments of art and antiquity of the People's Commissariat of Education (32nd Department of the People's Commissariat of Education) of the RSFSR in the form of the All-Russian Commission for the Preservation and Disclosure of Old Russian Painting. I. E. Grabar was appointed chairman of this commission. In 1924, the commission was transformed into the Central State Restoration Workshops (TSRM). Through the efforts of I. E. Grabar, the Central State Russian Museum collected the best of the national scientific restoration of that time: both outstanding art scientists and experienced practicing restorers.

In 1934 the Center was liquidated. Some of the leading employees of the Center were subjected to repression, up to the “highest measure of social protection.” The accusations, of course, are false, but in the conditions of that time they were almost “deserved”: “propaganda of religion” under the guise of preserving culture. Fortunately, I.E. Grabar was a figure of such magnitude that he was not touched. The return of restorers from disgrace is a “merit” of the war. As the occupied part of the USSR was liberated, the scale of damage caused by the war not only to the economy, but also to culture - historical monuments and artistic values - became clearer. On September 1, 1944, the Council of People's Commissars issues Order No. 17765-r signed by the deputy. Chairman V. M. Molotov on permission for the Committee for Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR to organize a Central Art Restoration Workshop. Naturally, the most experienced I.E. Grabar was brought in for the organization, who, having become the artistic director of the “new” workshop, actually recreated the old ones, attracting surviving restorers for this, even recalling them from the fronts. It is thanks to I.E. Grabar that the current Center is rightly considered the successor of those workshops that began in 1918. [ ]

Over the almost century-long history of the center, through the efforts of its employees, thousands of monuments of fine and decorative arts have been preserved for domestic and world culture. Among these monuments are frescoes of Novgorod and Vladimir churches, cathedrals of the Moscow Kremlin, ancient Russian icons, including such shrines as “Our Lady of Vladimir” “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev; painting from the collection of the Dresden Gallery, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin; panorama “Battle of Borodino” by F. Roubaud; medieval manuscripts and ancient ceramics.

Center today

Today, the Center is one of the few restoration organizations that have a time-tested system for training new employees. Back in 1947, the State Central Artistic Center adopted the “Regulations on Restoration Artists,” which obligated each master to “constantly improve: a) in the history and theory of art; b) according to the methodology of restoration processes; c) by general artistic level (performing creative work in accordance with one’s specialty - drawing, painting, modeling, copying, etc.).”

Training of restoration personnel at VKhNRTS

Before the Great Patriotic War and immediately after its end, the USSR had not yet practiced the training of restorers in special educational institutions, although the need for them was enormous, especially in the post-war years. First of all, what was needed was not so much high-class art restorers to restore what was lost, but rather conservator restorers to provide “first aid” to damaged monuments - capable of monitoring the safety of museum funds, preventing the final loss of historical and artistic values, carrying out urgent conservation and, as soon as possible, possibilities, simple restoration work.

To solve this important task, the Central State Restoration Workshops, as the Grabar Center was then called, in 1955 organized two-year training courses for restorers of easel painting, graphics, sculpture and applied art objects. Course participants underwent the necessary training, not only practical, but also general cultural theoretical, and, having received qualification certificates indicating the list of works that they were allowed to perform, they became a real salvation for thousands of exhibits in many museums of the Soviet Union. The best graduates were hired by the TSRM, many of them are the pride of the Center to this day.

Currently, the training of restoration personnel in Russia usually consists of two stages: restoration faculties and departments have been opened in a number of art educational institutions in the country, after which graduates are trained by experienced master practitioners.

In order to train and retrain restorers for the country's museums, the All-Russian Scientific Research Center has developed a system of internships in different departments with mandatory reading of theoretical courses on technology, restoration methods and various types of pre-restoration and restoration studies of monuments (physical, chemical, x-ray, biological, etc.). Internships are carried out on the basis of agreements between VHNRTS and interested organizations and individuals.