The Indian Artist Magda Nachman-Acharya


Project participants:

Project Manager: Mikaberidze, Natalia Alexandrovna
Author of the texts and curator: Bernstein, Lina Grigorievna (USA)
State Museum of Oriental Cultures (Moscow)
State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan)
Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Moscow)
State Literary Museum (Moscow)

List of exhibitions in which Magda Nachman-Acharya is known to have participated

Russia
1. Exhibition of students of Bakst and Dobuzhinsky (Petersburg, 1910)
2. IV Art Exhibition of Paintings. The Northern Circle of Fine Arts Lovers. (Vologda, 1913)
3. Exhibitions of the association "World of Art" (Petersburg and Moscow, 1912.1913.1917)
4. Benefit Exhibition of paintings for the infirmary of artists. (Petrograd, 1914)
5. "Art 1915" (organizer K.V. Kandaurov) (Moscow, 1915)
6. Exhibition of paintings by the professional Union of Artists (Moscow, 1918)
7. IV State exhibition of paintings (Moscow, 1919)
8. II State Exhibition of Art and Science (Kazan, 1920)

Germany

1. Solo exhibition in the gallery J. Casper (Galerie J. Casper). (Berlin, 1928)
2. Group exhibition at the Amsler & Ruthardt Gallery. (Berlin, 1929)

India

1. Since 1937, i.e., almost since her arrival in India, Magda participated in every exhibition of the Bombay Art Society, whose exhibitions were held almost every year (with the exception of the war years).
2. Solo exhibition in Pune (1940s)
3. Annual solo exhibitions at the Salon of the Institute of Foreign Languages (Bombay, since 1946).
4. Solo exhibition in the Chetana exhibition hall. (Bombay, 1947)
5. The first posthumous exhibition at the Salon of the Institute of Foreign Languages (Bombay, 1951).
6. Second posthumous exhibition at the Salon of the Institute of Foreign Languages (Delhi, 1952)

Acknowledgments

The following institutions and private collectors have lent images of Magda Nachman's works:

Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Moscow)—RGALI
State Literary Museum (Moscow)—GLM
State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan)—GMII RT
House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva (Moscow)—DMC
Private Collection of Lina Bernstein (USA)—LB
Archive of Hilde Holger, private collection of Primavera Boman-Behram (copyright Primavera Boman-Behram)—PBB
John Burns Private Collection (UK)—JB
Private collection of Saryu Doshi (Bombay, India)—SD
Private collection Roshan Cooper (Pune, India)—RC
Private Collection Ayesha Malhotra—AM
Private collection Noam Mualem Yosef (Israel)—NMI
Private collection of Victoria Schweizer (USA)—VS
Sophie Seifalian Family Archive (London, UK)—SS
All photos from this collection are published for the first time
Private collection of Hira and Adrean Steven (Bombay, India)—HS
Private Collection Jacqueline Hale (USA)—JH
Private Collection of Darryl and Brian D'Monte (Bombay, India)—DBM
Private collection Shirin Sababaly (Bombay, India)—ShS

© Curator and author of the texts—Lina Bernstein (USA)

Additional materials and sources

1. J. L. Obolenskaya. "At the Zvantsova School under the Direction of L. Bakst and M. Dobuzhinsky." Read at the Academy of Art. 1927.

2. Lina Bernstein. "Indian Nationalists' Cooperation with Soviet Russia in Central Asia: The Case of M.P.T. Acharya," in Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theaters: Essays on the Great War (1914–18).

3. All known paintings by Magda Nachman appear on the website magdanachmanacharya.org.

4. Lina Bernstein, "The Great Little Lady of the Bombay Art World."

5. Lina Bernstein and Elena Nekludova, "Italic font of the Era: Postal Prose from the Archive of Yu.L. Obolenskaya."