Иван Чечот Ivan Chechot

Born in 1954 in Leningrad. Ph.D. in Art History. From 1976 to 1997 an Associate Professor of the Art History Department of Faculty of History of St.Petersburg State University. Since 1994, the head of history and theory of fine arts department of Russian Institute of Art History of RAS. Professor of Faculty of Philology and Arts of SPbSU. Founder of “Navicula Artis” gallery in St.Petersburg and Summer Humanities School in Chernyakhovsk. Member of the Max Beckmann Society.

From Beckmann to Breker. Articles and sketches.
SPb: Workshop “Session”, 2016. Selected articles

Selected essays by art historian Ivan Dmitrievich Chechot (from the book “From Beckmann to Breker. Articles and sketches”) is devoted to various subjects of the Russian history and Western European art, as well as local events of the current artistic life. The characters of the book are Kate Kolvitz, Boris Zernov and Timur Novikov, Kaliningrad-Konigsberg and Leningrad-Petersburg. The author pays special attention to the characters of the contemporary art scene: artists Anna and Alexei Gan, Yuri Vasiliev, Sergei Sonin and Elena Samorodova.