Nicolas Barrera
Nicolas Barrera (born September 1, 1919 in Chernigov , Ukraine ; † June 11, 2006 in Weil am Rhein , actually Nikolai Drosd ) was a Russian painter .
life and work
Nicolas Barrera and his parents moved to Dnepropetrovsk in 1921 . There he graduated from high school in 1937 and began studying painting in Leningrad in the same year .
Germany and Spain
In 1941, at the beginning of the Second World War , he was drafted as an officer and was taken prisoner, including a year in the German concentration camp near Leipzig. In 1945 he managed to escape and saw the end of the war as a war correspondent for the Americans in Frankfurt (Oder) , then fled the Stalin regime and settled in Barcelona in Spain. There he took up painting again and set up a small studio . For the first time he signed his pictures with the Spanish pseudonym Barrera . He did not have any official papers at the time.
France
In 1946 he fled to France from the Franco regime and was sent to a Russian assembly camp for transport to Siberia . Barrera fled again and found refuge with an Orthodox priest. The first job placements and the placement of false French papers in the name of "Janot" took place . He began to paint again, and this is how the Marseilles port pictures and his classical dance and portrait pictures were created. He owned a small studio in the old port. In 1949 Barrera set up an additional studio in Paris because of many commissions ( advertising , illustrations ), which he kept until 1954. His Paris pictures are all signed "Janot" and most of them are lost.
In 1953 the name was clarified by a court. In Russia he was put on the want list, in France he was given unlimited residence permits and official papers. From this point on, he finally signed his work with the pseudonym "Barrera". He was included in various art encyclopedias and museums , received various awards and official commissions for French institutions. He moved to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue in 1965 . This was followed by exhibitions in Narbonne , Marseille , Paris , Avignon , Béziers , Saint Giniez (Quartier in Marseille), Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Marignane and Fontvieille .
Because on the Rhine
In 1976 he married the artist Inken, née Vogt from Dresden. He stayed every six months in Weil am Rhein and in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. From 1988–90 there was a large print edition of annual calendars in German-speaking countries. Exhibitions in Munich , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Augsburg and in the three-country corner of Basel took place. Nicolas Barrera died on June 11, 2006 in Weil am Rhein and was buried in the main municipal cemetery. In 2007 a memorial exhibition took place in the "Museum am Lindenplatz" in Weil am Rhein.
His paintings hang in the museums of Narbonne, Marseille and Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Nicolas Barrera was considered the Camargue painter in France and was also one of the most sought-after restorers for museums and private collections.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barrera, Nicolas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drozd, Nicolai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernikoff , Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 2006 |
| Place of death | Because on the Rhine |