Viktor Dmitrievich Samirailo

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Віктор Дмитрович Замирайло
Transl. : Viktor Dmytrovyč Zamyrajlo
Transcr. : Viktor Dmytrovytsch Samyrajlo
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Виктор Дмитриевич Замирайло
Transl .: Viktor Dmitrievič Zamirajlo
Transcr .: Viktor Dmitrievich Samirailo

Viktor Dmitrievich Samirailo (born November 24 . Jul / 6. December  1868 . Greg in Cherkasy , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 2. October 1939 in Peterhof , RSFSR , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian - Russian -sowjetischer painter , book illustrator and stage designer .

Life

Samirailo was born in Cherkassy in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Cherkassy . He studied between 1881 and 1886 at the Kiev drawing school of Mykola Muraschko . In Kiev, he worked with Mikhail Vrubel on the restoration of frescoes in the church of St. Cyril and 1885-1890 with Viktor Vasnetsov of inscriptions and decorations of murals in the St. Volodymyr . With this he then went to Moscow for further cooperation . From 1904 to 1907 he lived in Saint Petersburg , where he worked closely with artists close to her in the spirit of the Mir Iskusstwa artistic association (in German: World of Art ). In 1907 he moved to Moscow again.

From the beginning, his artistic development, recognizable by his mature style, was under the strong influence of his role models Michail A. Wrubel and Gustave Doré . Samirailo staged performances, dealt with monumental decorative painting and since the late 1900s he has worked on an extensive series of drawings Capricci .

In the later years of his life he occupied himself with educational activity, but in the last phase of his life was prevented from teaching and creative work due to serious illness. A man forgotten by everyone, blind and helpless, he ended his life at the age of 70 in a care home for the elderly.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Entry on Wiktor Samyrajlo in the Kiev encyclopedia ; accessed on June 24, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. Entry on Wiktor Samyrajlo in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on June 24, 2018 (Ukrainian)