Yevgeny Stepanovich Kobytew
Yevgeny Stepanowitsch Kobytew ( Russian Евгений Степанович Кобытев ; born December 25, 1910 in Utjanskoje in the Altai region ; † January 29, 1973 in Krasnoyarsk ) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, " monumentalist ", teacher at the state art institute in Krasnoyarsk his Siberian hometown.
After graduating from high school in 1929, he first went into a technically-oriented professional environment by studying the performing arts at the Omsk Technical Center for Industrial Art . During a visit to the Congress of Artists of the East Siberian Region in 1933, he got to know the academic art world. In 1936 he took part in a competition where the jury noticed him. From 1936 to 1941 he began his studies at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev , where he graduated with honors. During these academic years he also worked as a teacher at a primary school. The works of that time are characterized by joie de vivre and sunshine.
When the Germans marched into the Ukraine , he volunteered and joined the 3rd Division of the 821st Artillery Regiment. As early as September 20, 1939 - three weeks after the beginning of the war - he was taken prisoner by Germany and was brought to Khorol . There he worked in one of the many concentration camps, the Khorolsk mine in a brick factory. There, under inhumane conditions, the prisoners vegetated without protection in the huge clay pit. It was during this time that his portraits were sketched, quickly scribbled on a scrap of paper. He managed to escape from captivity after four years. He was able to save his now numerous notes. After years of privation and harassment, Kobytev endeavored to document the crimes committed by the occupiers while in captivity. He continued to fight in his troops and saw the end of the war in Dresden .
Krasnoyarsk became his hometown. The city offered him plenty of orders after the war because many buildings had to be rebuilt. He became a member of the city's artists' association and worked, for example, on the ceiling painting of Passazhirskiy train station. He also created a number of other, monumental paintings. He also provided the draft of the wall mosaic made of river pebbles on the Heimat Kino-Theater , built in 1960 , which is now a listed building and has survived, although the cinema has since been demolished and is being integrated into a new Volkshaus ( House of Friendship of the Peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Territory ).
The grief he had experienced from the Germans during World War II still persisted in 1960. He went to Khorol to meet people with whom he had to share the fate of that time, and also a farmer who helped them survive by giving them secret food. In the following years he worked on an exhibition, which he presented there four years later and which was visited by thousands of people. “There were no imaginary people in his work - the viewers recognized themselves and their tormentors. For Kobytew this was the artistic balance before the eyewitnesses of those terrible events and the fulfillment of the promise he had made to himself in the death camp - to survive and to tell in his works the truth about the great sufferings and great exploits of our people. ”In subsequently held Kobytew in Krasnoyarsk and other cities presentations and lectures on the Chorolsker pit . His work was shown in the documentary television film "Blätter der Srauer und des Zorns" (Leaves of Sorrow and Anger) and a special edition of the cinema chronicle "They said - there is no death!"
In 1965 his book Khorolskaja Grube with drawings and essays about life in the camp was published by the Krasnoyarsk book publisher .
Works (selection)
- Let us elect the best sons and daughters of our people as members of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR! , Poster, 1945 on akg-images.de
Web links
- Jekaterina Tschernobylowa: Until the last breath research a student to the artist at the Municipal educational institution general education secondary school No. 69 in cooperation with the Posdejew Museum, Krasnoyarsk 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ На реставрацию кинотеатра "Родина" выделят 200 млн рублей . In: sibnovski.ru, February 15, 2018
- ↑ Чиновники объявили о начале реставрации кинотеатра “Родина” on NGS24.ru, March 20, 2019
- ↑ Ekaterina Chernobylova: Up to the last breath research work
- ↑ "Культура военного Красноярья": художник Евгений Кобытев , Kultura24.ru, May 5, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kobytew, Yevgeny Stepanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кобытев, Евгений Степанович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter, graphic artist, teacher at the State Art Institute and a member of the city council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utjanskoje, Altai -region |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1973 |
| Place of death | Krasnoyarsk |