Gera Grudev / Ilya Ehrenburg: portrait with addiction

For the first time in our lecture, a brilliant speaker, an expert in his field, an enthusiastic researcher and our great friend Gera Grudev with his lecture, "Ilya Ehrenburg: Portrait with Addiction."              Poet, writer, publicist, journalist, translator, public figure, photographer - this is how encyclopedias define Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg (01/26/1891 - 08/31/1967), the author of "The Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Pupils," a novel that became a turning point for Soviet literature, the most popular Soviet publicist during the Second World War, the author of the novel "The Thaw", which gave the name to the era, the memoirist, whose "People, Years, Life" became the handbook of several generations of intelligent Soviet readers.              But at the meeting we learn about another Erenburg - about the collector Erenburg and his collection (and at the same time we will talk about why he categorically refused the title of "collector"); about the Erenburg cultural treger, which returned to the Soviet audience the right to see Picasso's work in museums; about Erenburg the artist-lover, about Erenburg a friend of all these artists and about Erenburg the defender of real art.              Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Fernand Leger, Marevna and many, many others will be the subject of our close attention.               Date and time: February 12 at 19:00.       ⏰ Duration: 2 hours        Location: st. Gogol, 10. Office "Tuda-Suda".        Lecturer: Gera Grudev        Registration by phone + 380676540205        Cost - 150 UAH.Friends, pre-registration for this tour is required!        Phone for registration +380676540205.              We are waiting for you! To fall in love with Odessa together again! 