Alexej von Assaulenko

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Alexej von Assaulenko , Russian Алексей Аcayлeнкo, (born August 25, 1913 in Lubny , Central Ukraine ; † August 22, 1989 in Plön , Holstein ) was a Russian-Ukrainian painter .

Alexej von Assaulenko

Life

Alexej von Assaulenko came from the Russian nobility . His father Nikolaus was a doctor and is said to have been the Tsar's personal doctor. The October Revolution forced the family to flee, depriving them of their property and noble status. In the turmoil that followed, the young Alexej was lost at the age of 6 and made his way through a gang of children. It was not until 1922 that he returned to his hometown Lubny and found his parents there. In the same year, his older and only brother Nikolai fell in the Russian Civil War .

After his school education, his parents registered him at the age of 13 at the Kiev Art Institute , where he studied painting during the day until he graduated in 1937 and, from 1931, at the same time as mechanical engineering in the evening at the Kiev Technical University . He then continued his training at the Petersburg Art Academy and then worked as a freelance artist.

In the last weeks of the Second World War he fled with his wife Katharina and his parents via Mecklenburg , where his grandmother was from, to Schleswig-Holstein . Plön remained the center of his life, even though he bought a second home in Rheine in 1957 and went on many study trips in Germany and abroad. On February 13, 1947, the city of Plön confirmed the use of the "von" as part of his name, as it would once have corresponded to a title of nobility .

After a serious illness, Alexej von Assaulenko died three days before he would turn 76.

In 1992 a foundation was established in Plön to preserve the artistic legacy of Alexej von Assaulenko and to make it accessible to the public and to organize exhibitions. The Rheine Museum Foundation manages the estate of the pictures that Katharina von Assaulenko gave to the city of Rheine.

Honors

  • Rome Prize of Schleswig-Holstein (1958)
  • Culture Prize of the City of Rheine (1984)
  • Entry with his wife in the Golden Book of the city of Plön (1985)

plant

Assaulenko always remained faithful to representational (open-air) painting and, although he mastered almost all painting techniques, devoted himself primarily to landscape and portrait painting . He systematically prepared his oil painting by studying charcoal drawings and watercolors . His work includes around 5,000 pictures. He has seen more than 40 exhibitions. After his death, the Schleswig City Museum (December 2006), the Museum of the Plön District (June 2008) and the Falkenhof Museum Rheine (September 2008) exhibited pictures of him. In May 2013 three exhibitions took place in the Plön district.

Landscapes

In 1965 and 1968 Assaulenko accompanied archaeological expeditions as an excavation painter under the direction of Friedrich Karl Dörner . The result was 80 pictures in which Assaulenko documented the landscape and people of the world between Syria and Turkey, which was little known to Europeans at the time. The numerous pictures of his second home, Holstein Switzerland, are testimony to how he was able to work out his own soul, which he attributed to every landscape.

Portraits

“Assaulenko's portraits are characterized by cautiousness and a tight collection of empathy with people. He tries to put the reflection of the inner life in the trains. "

- Christian Jenssen

In 1960 a remarkable cycle of pictures was created of miners in a colliery in Bochum. In the series Portraits of German Poets and Thinkers , he portrayed personalities from art, politics and business, for example Kai-Uwe von Hassel , Ferry Porsche , Hermann Claudius , Stefan Andres and Joseph Krautwald .

Studies and sketches

His sketches in charcoal, colored pencil or ink reveal the diversity of his skills and the diversity of his technical repertoire. In 1958 Assaulenko attended Oskar Kokoschka's School of Vision . Here he painted extraordinary watercolor sketches that were delightful in terms of color and shape, which Heike Carstensen made available to the public for the first time in 2008 in the exhibition "The Path of an Artist".

Permanent exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Hansen: fallen out of time. For the 100th birthday of the painter Alexej von Assaulenko from Plön . Kieler Nachrichten , May 3, 2013, No. 102, p. 17
  2. ^ Förde Sparkasse Plön

literature

  • Christian Jenssen : Alexej von Assaulenko. Attempt to appreciate his work . Der Anschnitt, 12th year (1960), pp. 21-27
  • Winfried Ashoff: The painter Alexej von Assaulenko . Rheine - yesterday, today, tomorrow. Magazine for the Rheine area. 14th edition 2/1985
  • Friedrich Karl Dörner : Kommagene - a rediscovered kingdom. With pictures from a painter's journey by Alexej von Assaulenko and contributions by Katharina von Assaulenko, Eleonore Dörner and Christian Jenssen . Codex-Verlag, Grundholzen, Böblingen, 1966–1971.
  • Franz-Josef Ferber: “Oh valleys, oh heights” - on the death of Alexej von Assaulenko . Daun Heimat-Jahrbuch, 1991, pp. 240–241
  • Franz-Josef Ferber: Fascinated by the beauty of our landscape - Alexej von Assaulenko painted in the Eifel . Eifel-Jahrbuch, 2007, pp. 122–127
  • Ursula Donder: The painter Alexej von Assaulenko . Master's thesis, Free University of Berlin 1992
  • Victor Raevsky: Alexej von Assaulenko . Plön 1994 (German / Russian text, blackboard section with 70 pages).
  • Heike Carstensen: About the exhibition in the Museum of the Plön district . Catalog of the exhibition "The Path of an Artist", 1st edition 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Assaulenko, Alexej von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubny , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1989
Place of death Plon , Holstein