Anatoly Timofejewitsch Sverv

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Anatoli Timofejewitsch Swerew ( Russian Анатолий Тимофеевич Зверев , scientific transliteration Anatolij Timofejewitsch Zverev ; born November 3, 1931 in Moscow ; † December 9, 1986 in Moscow) was a Russian painter and an important representative of the " Second Russian " avant-garde .

life and work

Zverev was born in Moscow on November 3, 1931 and began painting at an early age. At the age of five, he received a polling station award in the district for a picture entitled “Road Traffic”. From 1948 to 1950 Zverev attended a school of arts and crafts in Moscow. In 1954, after just a few months, he was dismissed from the Moscow art school "In Memory of 1905" ( Russian Памяти 1905 года ) because of his self-confident stubborn demeanor. From his acquaintance with the painters Oskar Rabin, Vladimir Nemuchin, Dmitrij Plawinskij and Wasilij Sitnikow the movement " Russian Nonconformists " arose .

According to Karl Eimermacher, his early drawings already show the absolute mastery of the pen, pencil or brush. On his visit to Moscow in 1956, Pablo Picasso described Zverev - on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Ilya Ehrenburg in the Moscow Pushkin Museum - as “one of the greatest Russian draftsmen”.

In 1957, at the World Youth Festival in Moscow, Zverev was awarded first prize by the jury chaired by David Alfaro Siqueiros for a spontaneously painted, monumental portrait .

From 1959 to 1962, Zverev's works in Russia could only be viewed in private rooms. From 1960 to 1965 the conductor Igor Markevich brought pictures by Swerev to the West and organized the first solo exhibitions with gouaches , oil paintings and watercolors in Paris and Geneva with the Motte gallery . According to Igor Markewitsch , Jean Cocteau fell into the delight of this Chinese Daumier in front of a series of horses in black ink .

In 1959, Swerev met the important collector George Costakis , who provided him with material support and acquired several of his works. According to Vladislav Shumskij, this has made a decisive contribution to the artist's popularity. After George Costakis, both Alfred Barr, the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art New York, and René d'Harnoncourt, his successor, paid tribute to the works of Sverv and referred to him as the group of painters of the post-Stalin era.

Sverv's grave

In 1975 Swerew joined the United Moscow Committee of Graphic Artists , which from that time supported him ideally and financially. In 1985 this committee held the only solo exhibition of his works in the USSR during his lifetime .

According to Galina Manevitch, a few months before his death he had written an autobiography in his own calligraphy with the dedication “Dir, Tibet”.

Swerew led a clochard life, was not averse to alcohol and not infrequently paid for accommodation with his works. He died on December 9, 1986 in his apartment in Moscow, where he left little work. His works were exhibited for several months in the House of Art in Moscow, most of which (estimates assume 30,000 works) are in circulation, with his initials in Russian А.З. and the year of origin.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 Anatolij Zverev - Peintures, gouaches, watercolors in the Motte gallery, Paris and Geneva
  • 1986 Anatoly Zverev , Kuros Gallery, New York (organized by George Costakis)
  • 1994 Anatolij Timofejewitsch Zverev Gallery Bayer, Bietigheim-Bissingen and Pushkin Museum, Moscow

A complete overview of the exhibitions of his work is available on a website.

Works (selection)

  • Self portrait
  • Napoleon in retreat
  • Rooster

literature

  • Anatolij Zverev - peintures, gouaches, watercolors. Exhibition catalog Galerie Motte, Paris - Geneva 1965
  • Unofficial art in the USSR. London 1977
  • Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1981, ISBN 978-0-8109-1556-5
  • Three Russian Expressionists. Exhibition catalog Galerie Miro & Spitzman, London 1986
  • Artist in Moscow. The new avant-garde. Eric A. Peschler in Edition Stemmle, Zurich 1988
  • Anatoly Zverev: Painting - Drawing. S. Kuskov, G. Manevich, I. Dudinski, PS, Moscow 1991
  • Anatoly Timofejewitsch Zverev. Exhibition catalog Galerie Bayer in Bietigheim-Bissingen March / April 1994, design: Rudolf Bayer

Web links

Commons : Anatoly Zverev  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eimermacher: Life as Art - Art as Life. Notes on Anatolij Zverev's work. in the Bayer gallery catalog, pp. 29–35
  2. ↑ cf. T. Zotova (Russian) in: Moskauer Nachrichten ( Russian Московские Новости , scientific transliteration Moskovskije Novosti ), No. 31, August 2, 1987, p. 11
  3. ^ Igor Markewitsch: Anatolij Zverev - The Holderlin of Painting as a catalog foreword, Galerie Motte, Paris 1965
  4. ↑ Vladislav Shumskij: My memories of Anatolij Zverev in the catalog of the Bayer Gallery, pp. 16–22
  5. ↑ George Costakis: How I experienced Zverev in the catalog of the Bayer Gallery, pp. 46–50
  6. ↑ Galina Manevitch: Anatolij Zverev - Myth and Reality in the Bayer Gallery's catalog, pp. 53–54
  7. ↑ Anatolyzverev.com
  8. ↑ http://anatolyzverev.com/gallery3/self-portrait/im3.jpg
  9. ↑ http://anatolyzverev.com/gallery2/art/Napoleon-in-retreat0052.jpg
  10. ↑ http://anatolyzverev.com/gallery/273rooster.jpg
personal data
SURNAME Swerev, Anatoly Timofejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zverev, Anatolij Timofejewitsch (full name); Зверев, Анатолий Тимофеевич (Russian); Zverev, Anatolij Timofejewitsch (scientific transliteration); Zverev, Anatoliy; Zverev, Anatoly; Zverev, Anatoli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter of expressionism and nonconformism
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1986
Place of death Moscow