Jacobus Belsen
Jacobus Belsen (Russian Яков Яковлевич Бельзен, Jakow Jakowlewitsch Belsen, Lat. Jēkabs Belzēns) (born September 18, 1870 in the village of Patkino, Alexandrowski ujesd, Province of Vladimir ; † September 29, 1937 in New York City ) was a Russian-Latvian painter , Draftsman, eraser, caricaturist and illustrator.
He attended the St. Petersburg High School of the Reformed Church. In the years 1888–1890 he studied at the Law Faculty of the Imperial University of Saint Petersburg .
In 1890 he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts ; received two small (1892) and two large (1893) silver medals. In 1894 he completed his studies with the title of 3rd degree class artist for the painting "Ghosts".
From 1895 he worked as a drawing teacher at various educational institutions in St. Petersburg. From 1905 to 1917 he worked as a drawing and painting teacher at the Central School for Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz in St. Petersburg.
In 1897 he made 95 drawings for the novel " Eugene Onegin " by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin . He painted genre scenes, landscapes and portraits. He dealt with watercolors, book and magazine graphics, delivered caricatures for the magazine "Шут" (The Fool).
He took part in exhibitions organized by associations of Russian and Latvian artists (Riga, 1910; Petersburg, 1915; Moscow, 1916). In 1919 he emigrated to Germany and settled in Berlin. In 1921 he published a collection of caricatures “Герои смутного времени” (Heroes of Sad Times) in the Berlin exile publishing house “Голос России” (Russia's voice). He worked for A. Devrient's book publisher and was a caricaturist in left-liberal magazines.
After 1933 he emigrated to the United States , where he died in 1937.
literature
- Jēkabs Belzēns // Latvijas Enciklopēdija. - Rīga: SIA «Valērija Belokoņa izdevniecība», 2007. - ISBN 9984-9482-0-X .
- Искусство и архитектура русского зарубежья - Russian art and architecture abroad
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belsen, Jacobus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бельзен, Яков Яковлевич; Belzēns, Jēkabs |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Latvian painter, draftsman, eraser, caricaturist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Patkino, Vladimir Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1937 |
| Place of death | New York City |