Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
Wassili Iwanowitsch Surikow ( Russian Василий Иванович Суриков , scientific transliteration Vasilij Ivanovič Surikov ; * January 12th July / January 24th 1848 greg. In Krasnoyarsk ; † March 6th July / March 19, 1916 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian painter and member of the Peredwischniki .
Live and act
Surikow comes from a long-established Siberian Cossack family . After completing an apprenticeship in his home country, he studied from 1869 to 1871 a. a. with Pavel Petrovich Tschistjakow at the Art Academy in Saint Petersburg . In 1877 he settled in Moscow , where he married Elisabeth Charais, a granddaughter of the Decembrist Pyotr Swistunov, a cornet of the tsarist army, the following year . In Moscow he worked on some frescoes in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior .
In 1881 he joined the Peredvizhniki movement. In 1893 he became a full member of the Petersburg Art Academy .
Surikov died in Moscow in 1916 and found his final resting place in the Vagankovo cemetery .
reception
Vasily Surikov is considered to be the most important painter of large-format historical subjects in Russia. His main works are among the most famous paintings by Russian painters. He also created paintings that reflect the life of ordinary people in what was then Russia.
Honors
- The Moscow Art School and a Moscow street bear his name.
- In addition, his hometown Krasnoyarsk has dedicated a monument to him. In 1948 a museum about the artist was opened in the house where he was born, where, among other things, some of his works can be seen. However, the most important of his works are exhibited in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum .
- The main inner belt asteroid (2965) Surikov is named after him.
- His life was the subject of the film Василий Суриков ( Vasily Surikow , 1959) by Anatoly Rybakow .
Works (selection)
- Утро стрелецкой казни ( On the morning of the execution of the Strelizos )
- Меншиков в Березове ( Menshikov in Berjosow )
- Боярыня Морозова ( The Boyarin Morozova )
- Покорение Сибири Ермаком ( Yermak's Conquest of Siberia )
- Переход Суворова через Альпы ( The Suvorov Crossing the Alps )
- Степан Разин ( Stepan Rasin )
The boyarin Morozova
literature
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 8 . Gmünd, Paris 1955.
Web links
- Works by Wassili Iwanowitsch Surikow at Zeno.org .
- Article Wassili Iwanowitsch Surikow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Biography of the artist and some of his works
- Information about the artist and his works (Russian)
- Vasily Surikov. Pictures and biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 27, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1975 BX. Discovered 1975 Jan. 18 by LI Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
- ↑ Film data for Василий Суриков (1959) on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on July 25, 2020
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SURNAME | Surikow, Wassili Iwanowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Суриков, Василий Иванович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter and member of the Peredwischniki |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1848 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnoyarsk |
DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1916 |
Place of death | Moscow |