Jelena Petrovna Skuin

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Elena Skuin ( Russian Елена Петровна Скуинь , * 2. April 1908 in Yekaterinodar , Russian Empire ; † 12. February 1986 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) married, Elena Skuin-Solujanowa , was a Soviet- Latvian painter , graphic artist and art teacher. She was a representative of socialist realism , a member of the Saint Petersburg Artists Association and is counted to the Leningrad School of Painting . She was best known for her still lifes .

Life

Jelena Skuin was born in 1908 into a family of teachers who originally came from Riga and settled in the Kuban area . After general school, she attended the teachers' school in Kuban from 1926 to 1930. From 1930 to 1931 she taught drawing in Krasnodar.

In 1931 Skuin went to Leningrad, where she worked as an artist and began studying at the Institute for Higher Education for Artists. In 1936 she studied in the third course for painting at the Russian Art Academy with Semion Abugov , Genrikh Pavlovsky , Dmitry Mitrokhin and Rudolf Frentz . Skuin graduated from the Russian Art Academy in Alexander Osmerkin's private studio in 1939 . Her thesis in the field of genre painting was entitled "The lesson of the circle, a study of marine science".

In October 1939, Skuin was admitted as a member of the Saint Petersburg Artists' Association and received the membership card with the number 285. From 1940 to 1941 she worked as an assistant in the studio of her former professor Frentz at the art academy.

After the beginning of the German-Soviet War , Skuin and her daughter were evacuated to Kazakhstan, where Skuin worked at a theater and organized exhibitions by artists from the Kuznetsk Basin region .

In 1944 she returned to Leningrad. She began to work as a teacher, first in the painting department at the Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture , named after Ilya Repin , then in the painting department at the Vera Ignatievna Mukhina Institute. At the same time, she increasingly worked creatively and took part in most exhibitions of Leningrad artists. Her work includes works from the field of genre painting , portraits, still lifes and landscapes. She created oil paintings, watercolors and charcoal drawings.

In 1951 Skuin stopped teaching and began painting under contract for LenIzo (a commercial artists' association in Leningrad). During this time, the still lifes became her leading motif, which is also evidenced by her works in the spring exhibitions of the Leningrad artists in 1954 and 1955 and the autumn exhibitions in 1956 and 1958.

In 1960 Skuin undertook journeys in search of inspiration for her art, during which she also returned to her home region of Kuban . This resulted in numerous sketches, but also finished works of art, including "Tobacco von Kuban", "Im Gartenbau" (both 1962), "Tobacco", "Garden Still Life" (both 1964) and others. After her travels, one notices spots of color in her works as a leitmotif, which underline the character of the compositions. Her style includes bright, saturated colors, selected color relationships, broad brushstrokes and a decorative and optimistic look.

In the 1970s, Skuin often worked with water colors. She acquired a variety of different techniques for dealing with them and thereby created lively and memorable images, close to the objective world, past its aesthetic value and giving warmth to things that make up the everyday environment. Solo exhibitions took place in Leningrad (1978) and St. Petersburg (2005).

Jelena Petrovna Skuin died in Leningrad in 1986. Her pictures are exhibited in the Russian Museum and in art museums, as well as in private collections in Russia, the USA, Japan, Germany, England, France and all over the world.

Web links

Commons : Elena Skuin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2. - Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p. 356.
  • Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s . - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6 , ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0 .
  • Elena Petrovna Skuin. - Saint petersburg: RusArt, 2005.
  • Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915-2005 . - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 51. ISBN 978-5-903677-01-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915-2005 . - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 51
  2. ^ The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition . - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1964. - p. 50.
  3. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. - p. 6-7.
  4. ↑ Charmes Russes. Auction catalog . - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, May 15, 1991. - p. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Skuin, Jelena Petrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skuin-Solujanowa, Jelena Petrovna (full name); Скуи́нь, Еле́на Петро́вна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Latvian painter, graphic artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekaterinodar , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1986
Place of death Leningrad , Soviet Union