Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson

Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson's grave in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery

Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson ( Russian Борис Владимирович Иогансон * July 13 ^{. Jul} / 25. July  1893 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 25. February 1973 ) was a Russian painter and university professor .

Life

Ioganson's ancestors belonged to an immigrant Johanson family from Sweden . Ioganson began his artistic training in the studio school of the painter PI Kelin . 1912–1918 he studied at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under AJ Archipow , NA Kassatkin , SW Maljutin and KA Korowin . He was a member of the Society of Young Artists and campaigned for constructivism .

According to the artist Alexei Smirnow, who knew Ioganson, Ioganson was an officer in the army of Admiral Kolchak during the Russian Civil War and painted portraits of the government there.

1919–1922 Ioganson worked as a set designer at the theater in Krasnoyarsk and at the one in Alexandrija ( Cherson Governorate ). From 1922 to 1931 he was employed by the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AChRR) , which he helped found.

In the 1930s Ioganson was an important representative of Soviet panel painting in the tradition of Russian painting of the 19th century, succeeding IJ Repin and WI Surikov, albeit with new revolutionary content, with which he joined socialist realism . His pictures Interrogation of the Communists (1933) and At the old Ural factory (1937) became particularly well known .

1937–1961 Ioganson taught at the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (from 1939 as a professor) and belonged to the Leningrad School of Painting . Ioganson's students included JP Antipowa , NN Baskakow , SN Bysowa , WW Watenin , NL Wesselowa , IS Glasunow , AB Gruschko , AG Yerjomin , WF Sagonek , IN Klychev , MA Koslowskaja , MK Kopytzewa , WB Larina , OL Lomakin , AW Moschajew , WW Monachowa , NA Mucho , AA Nenartowitsch , GA Rumjanzewa , SA Rotnizki , JD Chuchrow , MP Trufanow , JN Tulin and WF Chekalov .

During the German-Soviet War Ioganson worked in the evacuation in Alma-Ata . In 1943 Ioganson became a member of the CPSU .

In 1953 Ioganson became Vice President and in 1958, succeeding AM Gerasimov, President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (until 1962), of which he had been a member since 1947. In 1956 he was a delegate at the XX. Party congress of the CPSU and also in 1959 at the XXI. Party congress. In 1962 he became editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia on the art of the countries and peoples of the world. From 1964 he taught at the Moscow Surikov Art Institute . 1965–1968 he was First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR . 1966-1970 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

Ioganson's son Andrei Borissowitsch Ioganson and his son Igor Andrejewitsch Ioganson also became artists.

Honors

• Stalin Prize 1st Class (1941) for the picture At the old Ural factory (1937)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1943)
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Stalin Prize I. Class (1951) for the picture of Lenin's appearance on the III. Komsomol Congress (1950, as co-author)
• Medal "On the 250th anniversary of Leningrad"
• Gold medal at the Brussels World Exhibition 1958 for the picture At the old Ural factory (1937)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1968)
• Order of Lenin (three times until 1968)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union

Web links

• Literature by and about Boris Wladimirowitsch Ioganson in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Landeshelden: Иогансон Борис Владимирович (accessed on May 1, 2017).
2. ↑ Boris Joganson: Boris Joganson . VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1961.
3. ↑ ArtOnline.ru: Иогансон Борис Владимирович (accessed on May 1, 2017).
4. ↑ МАСЛОВКА - история советского изобразительного искусства: ИОГАНСОН Б. В. - IOGANSON Boris (accessed May 1, 2017).
5. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov: The Leningrad School of Painting (accessed May 1, 2017).