Alexander Alexejewitsch Borissow

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Winter's Tale, 1913

Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov ( Russian Александр Алексеевич Борисов ; born 2 November . Jul / 14. November  1866 greg. In Gluboki Rutschei, near Krasnoborsk in the government of Vologda; † 17th August 1934 in Krasnoborsk in the Arkhangelsk Oblast ) was a Russian painter. He is considered a painter of the Russian Arctic North and has dedicated part of his work to the indigenous peoples of the Russian East.

Education

Borissow began his artistic career in 1884-86 in the icon workshop of the Solovetsky Monastery , from 1886 to 1888 he studied at the drawing school of the Society for the Promotion of the Arts in Saint Petersburg, then from 1888 to 1897 at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. There he met Archip Ivanovich Kuindschi and in 1895 acquired the title of "3rd class artist", then in 1897 the title of "Artist". From 1894 onwards Borissow made several trips to the far north. 1897–99 and 1900–01 he was the initiator of expeditions to Novaya Zemlya .

Works

Borisov found his subject mainly in the landscapes of the Far North. He wanted to portray the "boundless beauty of the tundra and the majestic Arctic Ocean". In the years 1898–1900, in addition to partly large-format landscapes, he also painted genre pieces that primarily showed the life of the Samoyed peoples. So z. B. the "Samoyed in the tundra in spring" from 1898 or the "Samoyed during fishing" from 1900 to 1901. Many of his works, which are also of interest to anthropologists and ethnologists, are now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Arkhangelsk .

His most famous picture is "Winter's Tale" from 1913. In 1899 Pavel Tretyakov acquired 65 paintings by Borissov, which are now in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow .

Other museums that exhibit paintings by Borisov include a. the local history museum in Kazan , the local history museum in Krasnodar , the art museum in Moscow . There is a collection of works in the Nizhny Novgorod Museum .

Exhibitions

  • 1903/14/19 in St.Petersburg
  • 1905 in Vienna and Prague
  • 1906 in Berlin
  • 1907 in Paris
  • 1908 in New York
  • 1930/34 in Moscow
  • At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was represented in a group exhibition.

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personal data
SURNAME Borissow, Alexander Alexejewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Gluboki Rutschei, Krasnoborsk , Vologda Governorate
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1934
Place of death Krasnoborsk , Arkhangelsk Oblast