KONSTANTIN AKINSHA
Konstantin Akinsha studied at the Shevchenko Art School in Kyiv, Ukraine, and in 1986 completed a Masters in Art History at the Moscow State University in Russia. He obtained his Candidate of Art History at the Research Insititute of Art History in Moscow in 1990, and is currently studying for a Ph.D at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, which he began in 2005.
During his life he has been curator at the Kyiv Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kyiv, Ukraine, Moscow correspondent for ARTnews, contributing editor for ARTnews magazine, New York, as well as a Research Fellow at both the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany and Bremen Kunstverein, East European Institute of Bremen University, Bremen, Germany. From 1999-2000 he was also Deputy Research Director Art and Cultural Property, Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, Washington, DC. In 2006 he became the European Correspondent for ARTnews magazine in Budapest, and in 2007 he also became a Eugene and Davmel Shklar Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University.
He has written a number of books, including The Funeral of the Revolution. (Boston: MIT press - expected - Autumn 2008), and The Holy Place. (New Heaven: Yale University Press. Fall 2007.) (co-authored with Gregorii Kozlov, with Sylvia Hochfield).
GRIGORIJ KOZLOV
Grigorij Kozlov was born in 1961 in Volgograd, Russia. In 1978 he graduated from Gymnasium no.84 in Volgograd. He went on to study in the Department of Art History at Moscow State University, graduating from there in 1984. Since then he has worked for world class art galleries and corporations, including the Museum of Private collections affiliated to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. He became the Moscow correspondent of ARTnews magazine in New York in 1991 and in April the same year wrote his first article, together with Konstantin Akinsha, uncovering the so-called "special depositories" of the Soviet museums. He later became a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), as well as editor for the Russian service of German Broadcasting Corporation "Deutsche Welle" in Cologne. Since 2000 he has remained a freelance art historian and researcher in Cologne, as well as contributing editor for ARTnews Magazine in New York.
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KONSTANTIN AKINSHA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS.
The Funeral of the Revolution. (Boston: MIT press - expected - Autumn 2008)
The Holy Place. (New Heaven: Yale University Press. Fall 2007.) (co-authored with Gregorii Kozlov, with Sylvia Hochfield).
AAM Guide for Provenance Research. (Washington DC: American Association of Museums, 2001) (co-authored with Nancy Yeide and Amy Walsh).
Beautiful Loot: Soviet Plunder of European Art Treasures. (New York: Random House. 1995) (co-authored with Gregorii Kozlov, with Sylvia Hochfield).
Operation Beutekunst. (Nurnberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 1995). (co-authored with Grigorii Kozlov).
ARTICLES (IN ENGLISH)
"The Mysterious Journey of an Erotic Masterpiece." ARTnews, February, 2008.
http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2442
"The Funeral of the Revolution." in Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth. (London: The Pindar Press, 2007.)
"Bilbao in the Urals?" ARTnews, October 2007.
"Hungary: Convoluted Legal Battles." ARTnews, January 2007."Playing with Modernity." in Küba. Journey Against the Current. (Vienna: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2006)"Goodbye, Balkans!" Read Relations, No 5, September 2006, (Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin.)
"The Sárospatak Case: Rare Books Return to Hungary from Nizhnii Novgorod
A New Precedent for Russian Cultural Restitution?" (co-authored with Patricia Kennedy Grimsted.) Art, Antiquity and Law, Vol. XI, Issue 3, September, 2006.
"The Scandal Sweeping Russia's Art Market." ARTnews, January 2006.
"On the Way Back: the Schneerson Collection and the Return of the 'Smolensk Archive.'" in "The Return of the "Smolensk Archive." (Moscow: Rosspen, 2005.)
"Italy and Slovenia: Competing Claims." ARTnews, December 2005.
"Provocateurs, Ghosts, Accomplices and Starz." ARTnews, April 2005.
"Painting versus Photography. A Battle of Mediums in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture." in Beyond Mrmory. (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2004.)
"Lost in Translation." IFAR Journal, vol. 7, No 1, 2004.
"Riders of the Lost Art." Washington Post Book World, December 26, 2004.
"The Long Odyssey of the World's the Most Expensive Eggs." ARTnews, June 2004.
"Orthodox Bulldozer." ARTnews, May 2004.
"Who Owns the Lubomirski Durers? " ARTnews, October 2001.
"Master Swindler of Yugoslavaia," ARTnews, September 2001.
"Alexander Roytburd," La Biennale di Venezia. 49 Esposizione Internazionale. Plateau of Humankind. (Venice: Electa, 2001.)
"Russian Deposits: No Return?" ARTnews, April 1998.
"The Strange Illegal Journey of the Larionov-Goncharova Archive," ARTnews, March 1997.
"The Scholar Who Came In from the Cold," ARTnews, September 1996.
"The Russian Avant Garde Betrayed," ARTnews, February 1996.
"To Return or Not to Return," ARTnews, October 1994.
"Bremen Art Works Twisted Tale," The Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 1993.
"Russia: Whose Art Is?" ARTnews, May 1992.
"The Secret Depositories Slowly Open," ARTnews, April 1992.'
"The Turmoil Over Soviet Art Treasures. A Growing Controversy," ARTnews, December 1991.
"The Sovietís Art Treasures. A Growing Controversy," ARTnews, September 1991.
"A Soviet-German Exchange of War Treasures?" ARTnews, May 1991.
"Spoils of War. The Soviet Union's Hidden Art Treasures," ARTnews, May 1991.
GRIGORIJ KOZLOV
Pokushenie na Iskusstvo. (Assault on Art). Slovo, Moscow, 2007.
Together with Konstantine Akinsha
Stolen Treasures: the Hunt for the Worlds Lost Masterpieces. Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, London, 1995. Selected for the list of the noticed Book of the Year of the New York Times (1995) and for Beste Liste der Süddeutsche Zeitung (1995)
American, European and Japanese editions of this book
-Beautiful Loot: the Soviet Plunder of Europian Art Treasures. Random house. New York, 1995
-Beutekunst : Auf Schatzsuche in Russischen Geheimdepots . DTV, Muenchen,1995
-Operatie Kunstroof. Uitgeverij Jan Mets, Amsterdam, 1995.
-Stolen treasure. Shinchosha Company, Tokyo, 1997.
Operation Beutekunst. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurnberg, 1995
The Holy Place: Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 2007.
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