Nikolai Efimowitsch Timkov

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Nikolai Jefimovič Timkow ( Russian: Николай Ефимович Тимков , scientific transliteration Nikolai Jefimovič Timkov ; born August 12, 1912 in Rostov-on-Don ; †  December 25, 1993 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a Soviet - Russian painter and member of the Leningrad Association of Artists . and is considered one of the most important representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.

Career

Timkow studied 1927-1931 at the Art Academy in Rostov-on-Don, 1933-1939 at the Department of Painting of the Russian Art Academy in Leningrad. He studied with well-known artists and teachers at the academy such as Isaak Brodski , Arkadi Rylow , Michail Bernstein , Vladimir Serow and Alexander Lyubimow . In 1939 he completed his studies with Brodski with a thesis "A day off in the city" ( Выходной день за городом ).

After graduating, Timkov was drafted into military service in the Baltic Fleet and remained a marine until 1946. During the Great Patriotic War and the Siege of Leningrad , Timkov was one of the city's defenders. In 1943 Timkov was accepted as a member of the Soviet Union of Artists in Leningrad. In 1947 he exhibited for the first time on the premises of the artists' association. Paintings by Timkov were then shown in 1957, 1964, 1975, 1982, 1993, in Moscow, Leningrad, Rostov-on-Don and other cities of the USSR. In 1987 he received the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation .

Since the early 1960s, Timkov spent every summer in the village of Walentinowka near Vyshny Volochok in Kalinin Oblast . There he created most of his many paintings and sketches. In winter he continued work in his Leningrad workshop. From then on, Timkov was counted among the great masters of Russian landscape painting. His works hang in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg and other large museums in Russia, as well as in many private collections in Russia and abroad. Even after his death, his work was recognized and met with great interest abroad. Two books published in the United States deal with him. Exhibitions of his pictures were held in the cities of San Francisco (1998, 2000, 2001), Aspen (1999), New York (1999, 2001), Scottsdale (2000), Palm Beach (2000), Vail (2001), Washington (2001) and carried out in other cities. This increased his fame as a "Russian Impressionist" and made him one of the most famous Soviet artists.

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Timkov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Directory of the members of the Union of Artists. Volume 2. - Moscow: Soviet Artists, 1979. P.426.
  2. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. PP.9, 21, 24, 44, 56, 89, 97, 153, 175, 199, 206, 209, 281, 329, 369, 389–400, 404, 405, 414-422. ISBN 5-901724-21-6 , ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7 .
  3. ↑ The Seasons of Timkov. Master Russian Impressionist . The Pushkin Collection, 1998.
  4. ↑ Akademichka. The Academic Dacha through the eyes of Nikolai Timkov . The Pushkin Group and the Timkov Collection, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Timkov, Nikolai Efimowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тимков, Николай Ефимович; Timkov, Nikolai Jefimovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1993
Place of death St. Petersburg