Viktor Kholodkov Papers, 1940-2015

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
BA#0562
Bib ID:
14012592 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Kholodkov, Viktor, 1948-2015
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
8.5 Linear Feet (20 manuscript boxes)
Language(s):
English , Yiddish , Russian .
Access:
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Description

Content Description

Personal and professional correspondence, art exhibition catalogs, photographs, printed materials, bio-biographical materials on Russian artists including emigre artists based in the U.S. and Europe collected by Viktor Kholodkov (1948-2015), renowned art dealer and collector. This collection complements Bakhmeteff Archive's holdings on Russian emigre artists.

Arrangement

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Viktor Kholodkov Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Revision Description

09/22/2020 authorities and notes updated by ksd

11/11/2020 Bio note written by Tanya Chebotarev added. ksd

Biographical / Historical

Viktor Kholodkov (1948-2015), Russian-American Art Dealer and Collector, was born in Kharkiv but in the early 1970s he moved to Moscow where he became an art dealer specializing in early Soviet avant-garde. He was a close associate of Nikolai Khardzhiev, one of the most influential art collectors in the former Soviet Union. Kholodkov main interest was in the art of VKhUTEMAS, the acronym for the Russian State and Technical School founded in 1920 in Moscow. VKhUTEMAS is often been reductively referred to as the "Soviet Bauhaus". Its faculty comprised some of the most pioneering Soviet artists of the time unckuding Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, and Gustav Klutsis.

In 1989, Viktor Kholodkov had immigrated to the United States and managed to bring there his extensive collection of prints and paintings related to the VKhUTEMAS art. In 1992, some of the paintings from his collection were exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York at the exhibition entitled "The Great Utopia: Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde". In 1995, he sold his collection to the Getty museum in Los Angeles. The same year, he sold his collection of early Soviet sheet music covers to the Library of Congress, however, this collection also contains similar covers.

Viktor Kholodkov died in San Diego, California in 2015.

Subject Headings

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Name
Bowlt, John E. CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Deĭneko, Olʹga, 1897-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Feinberg, Leon, 1897-1969 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fevralʹskiĭ, Aleksandr Vilʹi︠a︡movich CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Golubovskiĭ, E. M. CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Guerra, René CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hollerbach, Serge, 1923-2021 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Korolev, B. D. (Boris Danilovich), 1885-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kotarbiński, Wilhelm, 1848-1921 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kovalenko, G. (Georgiĭ) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lushchik, Sergeĭ CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Serebri︠a︡kova, Zinaida Evgenʹevna, 1884-1967 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
VKhUTEMAS (Art school) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vasilʹev, Boris CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Art -- Soviet Union CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Russian American artists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID