Alexander Nikolayevich Samochvalov
Alexander Nikolajewitsch Samochwalow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов ; born August 21, 1894 in Beschezk , Tver Governorate , Russian Empire ; † August 20, 1971 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor. As the founder and respected member of the Leningrad School of Painting and the Leningrad Artists' Union , he was a representative of Socialist Realism . He painted portraits, historical paintings and genre paintings , monumental, but also small-format works.
Artistic career
From 1914 to 1918 he studied with the church painter Vasily Beljajew and the sculptor Hugo Salemann at the Imperial Art Academy (after 1917 Ilya Repin Institute) in Petrograd. From 1920 to 1923 he visited the state workshops of Wchutemas and accompanied Kuzma Sergejewitsch Petrow-Vodkin on a cultural and historical expedition to Samarkand in 1921 . Since the late 1920s he created pictures that show the young heroes of socialist work and athletes. From 1935 he painted pictures of leaders of the CPSU and created sculptures for the Leningrad Lomonosov porcelain factory . He designed sets and costumes for Alexander Ostrowski's play The Poor Bride in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater and for the play Hot Heart , which was staged in 1943 in the Pushkin Theater in Leningrad. From 1948 to 1954 he taught at the Leningrad School of Art and Industry . In 1971 he died in Leningrad and was buried in the Komarov Cemetery. His memoirs appeared in 1977.
Exhibitions and awards
Since 1914 Samokhvalov regularly participated in exhibitions. In 1925 he won a gold medal at the Paris art fair, in 1937 he was represented at the Paris World Exhibition and won the Grand Prix . He had important solo exhibitions in Leningrad in 1963 and in Saint Petersburg and Tver in 1994 . In 1967 he received the RSFSR's Distinguished Personality in the Arts award . Works by him are part of the collections of numerous museums. The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg owns works by Samokhvalov, as does the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery and numerous private collections around the world.
literature
- Ирина Баршова, Кира Сазонова: Александр Самохвалов , Leningrad, Художник РСФСР, 1963
- Александр Самохвалов: Моя Самаркандия . - Санкт-Петербург: Искусство России, 1993
- Matthew C. Bown: Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s , Izomar London, 1998, ISBN 0-9532061-0-6
- Иванов С. В. Неизвестный соцреализм. Ленинградская школа. - Санкт-Петербург: НП-Принт, 2007. ISBN 5-901724-21-6 , ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samochwalow, Alexander Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Самохвалов, Александр Николаевич (Russian); Samochvalov, Aleksandr Nikolaevič (scientific transliteration); Samokhvalov, Alexander Nikolayevich (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet painter, graphic artist, illustrator, sculptor and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beschezk , Tver Governorate, Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1971 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |