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VITEBSK, 7 June (BelTA) – The Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk begins celebrating its 20th anniversary with the 21st Chagall readings. They will open at the Marc Chagall Art Center on 11 June, BelTA learned from the museum's director Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya. Scientific reports in Vitebsk will be presented by art critics, collectors from Russia and Belarus. Olga Thompson, Ph.D. in Arts, assistant professor of Russian art of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of the Russian Academy of Arts, will talk about the influence of Marc Chagall on contemporary Russian artists. Collector from St. Petersburg Alexei Rodionov will make a report on artist Robert Genin, widely known in Europe but little known to art lovers in his homeland in Russia. By tradition, the Chagall readings will feature the studies of archival materials about Chagall and his family. This time the audience will learn many interesting things about socialist Anna Rosenfeld, the older sister of the artist's wife. All the reports will be included into the museum’s annual bulletin. Over more than 20 years the museum has published nearly 200 reports of researchers and art critics from Belarus, the UK, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Russia, the USA, Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Estonia, the UAE. The Marc Chagall Museum consists of Chagall’s Art Center and the artist’s memorial house museum. The art center was opened in 1992. Nearly 300 artworks of Marc Chagall are kept there. Among them is lithographic printing, xylography, calligraphic etching, aquatints, a set of illustrations to Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls, a series of colorful lithography on the bible theme. The art center collection also embraces 200 items of mass-production graphics of European avant-garde painters. The museum library contains 5,000 books dedicated to Marc Chagall, European and Russian avant-garde artists. The Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk is annually visited by nearly 22,000 tourists.

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