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Since Russia invaded Ukraine<\/a> in 2022, it has repeatedly\u00a0bombed<\/a> the southern city of\u00a0Odesa<\/a>, reducing many of its historic buildings<\/a> to rubble. But now, thanks to the work of museum employees, some of the Black Sea port city\u2019s cultural artifacts that were evacuated to safety are now on display in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the invasion, the staff of the century-old Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art moved many of its most valuable artworks to a storage facility for safekeeping. The following year, workers sent 74 items to Germany, where they were cleaned and restored.<\/p>\n

Now, most of those pieces are on display at Gem\u00e4ldegalerie<\/a>, an art museum in Berlin. The exhibition, titled \u201cFrom Odesa to Berlin: European Painting From the 16th to the 19th Century<\/a>,\u201d opened late last month.<\/p>\n

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Restorers Anja Lindner-Michael and Thuja Seidel unpacked the artworks in Berlin in September 2023.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOdesa\u2019s beautiful old town, where the Museum of Western and Eastern Art is situated, has been attacked by missiles time and again,\u201d German President\u00a0Frank-Walter Steinmeier<\/a> said at the show\u2019s opening, per the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Catherine Hickley. \u201cIn countless Ukrainian towns and cities, listed buildings continue to be damaged, cultural institutions destroyed and works of art stolen. The attacks against museums, theaters, operas and libraries are intended to wipe out Ukraine\u2019s cultural memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition features works from the Odesa museum\u2019s European paintings collection, including pieces by the Italian artist\u00a0Bernardo Strozzi<\/a> and the Dutch artists\u00a0Frans Hals<\/a> and\u00a0Cornelis de Heem<\/a>. The paintings came to Germany from a storage facility in Lviv, Ukraine, where \u201cthousands of artworks were piled up in overcrowded depots,\u201d reports Deutsche Welle<\/a>\u2019s Stefan Dege.<\/p>\n

Igor Poronyk, director of the Odesa museum, tells Margarete Kreuzer of the German broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg<\/a>\u00a0(RBB) that the storage conditions were \u201cnot optimal,\u201d per a translation by Deutsche Welle. Officials feared the paintings would be destroyed by mold, so they asked the Berlin museum for help.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition showcases 60 major artworks from the Ukrainian museum.<\/p>\n

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In late 2023, a truck carried 74 paintings\u2014many of them without frames\u2014to Berlin, according to a statement from the Berlin State Museums. Two conservators cleaned the paintings and placed them in newly cut frames. \u201cFrom Odesa to Berlin\u201d includes 60 major artworks from the Ukrainian museum alongside 25 pieces from the Berlin museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

The collaborative exhibition is an \u201cimportant sign of solidarity,\u201d as Gem\u00e4ldegalerie director\u00a0Dagmar Hirschfelder<\/a> tells RBB. \u201cCultural assets, Ukrainian cultural assets, are being actively destroyed and annihilated. And making a contribution here is very important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition is divided into nine chapters highlighting different genres of European painting, which reflect the \u201cmultifaceted nature of the Ukrainian collection, which has hitherto been little known in Western Europe,\u201d per the statement.<\/p>\n

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Portrait of Olena Tolstoy<\/em>,\u00a0Domenico Morelli, 1875<\/p>\n

Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, inv. no. \u0417\u0416-111, Gem\u00e4ldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin \/ Eigentum des Museums f\u00fcr Westliche und \u00d6stliche Kunst Odesa \/ Christoph Schmidt<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI hope that this exhibition will be seen by many people from Germany, Europe and around the world,\u201d Steinmeier said at the opening. \u201cI hope that Ukrainians who have found refuge here in Germany will find a piece of home in the paintings.\u201d Most importantly, the president added, he hopes the paintings will be returned to the Odesa museum in a \u201cfree and independent Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gives us hope when people come to the museum and see that paper and canvas have lasted for so many years and experienced so much,\u201d Poronyk tells RBB. \u201cEvil is fleeting, but art lasts forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>From Odesa to Berlin: European Painting From the 16th to the 19th Century<\/em><\/a>\u201d <\/em>is on view at the Gem\u00e4ldegalerie in Berlin through June 22, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

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