Vasily Ivanovich Surikov

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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 )

On the morning of the execution of the Strelizi by Tsar Peter I.
The boyarin Morozova
The bronze rider
Menshikov in Beryosov
Taking a snow fortress
The Suvorov crossing of the Alps
Male body

literature

Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 8 . Gmünd, Paris 1955.

Web links

Commons : Wassili Iwanowitsch Surikow - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

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

personal data
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

[1] 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. "

[2] Film data for Василий Суриков (1959) on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on July 25, 2020