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Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov Born May 8, 1918
Astrakhan, Soviet RussiaDied October 14, 1993
Saint Petersburg, RussiaNationality Russian Field Painting Training Repin Institute of Arts Movement Realism Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Бакка́ков; May 8, 1918, Astrakhan city, Soviet Russia - October 14, 1993, Saint Petersburg, Russia) - Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),[1] regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[2] most famous for his genre and portrait painting.
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Biography
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov was born May 8, 1918 in Astrakhan city on the Volga River.
In 1933–1939 years Nikolai Baskakov studied of the famous Russian art educator Pavel Alekseevich Vlasov in Astrakhan Art School. From 1939 to 1945 he served in the Red Army in the Soviet Far East.
In 1945 Nikolai Baskakov comes to Leningrad and entered at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of Leonid Ovsannikov, Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Alexander Zaytsev.
In 1951 Nikolai Baskakov graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Boris Ioganson workshop together with Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maya Kopitseva, Anatoli Levitin, Avenir Parkhomenko, Arseny Semionov, Mikhail Trufanov, Boris Ugarov, and other young artists. His graduation work was historical painting "Lenin and Stalin in Smolny"[3]
Since 1951 Nikolai Baskakov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted battle and historical paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, sketchs from the life. Nikolai Baskakov worked in the technique of oil painting and drawing.
Nikolai Baskakov was a Member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1951[4]
For the art of Nikolai Baskakov typical appeal to the themes of large public sound, and to the image of a contemporary, disclosed in a picture-portrait. He was most famous for the impressive portraits of contamporaries painted in realistic style.
Among the most famous works by Nikolai Baskakov are paintings "Music" (1957), "On the Russian Land" (1968), "Milkwomen" (1962), "Victory" (1974), "Portrait of Vasily Shukshin" (1983).
The West discovered the art of Nicholas Baskakov in 1989, when his portraits and genre paintings were first shown in Paris at the auctions of the Leningrad school artists. Subsequently many of his works were acquired by American private collections.[5]
In 1991 Saint Petersburg publishing house "Khudozhnik RSFSR" issued a monograph by V. Kirillov, devoted to creation of Nikolai Baskakov.[6]
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov died on October 14, 1993, in Saint Petersburg at the seventy-six year of life. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in the Russia,[7] Japan, in the U.S.,[8] Germane, England, France,[9] and throughout the world[citation needed].
See also
- Leningrad School of Painting
- List of Russian artists
- List of 20th century Russian painters
- List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
- List of the Russian Landscape painters
- Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
References
- ^ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p. 98.
- ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.9, 20, 24, 357, 388-401, 403-406, 439.
- ^ Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 64.
- ^ Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. - p.11.
- ^ Vern G. Swanson. Soviet Impressionism. - Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. - pp. 186-188.
- ^ Vianor A. Kirillov. Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1991. - 104 p.
- ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. - c.6-7.
- ^ Vern G. Swanson. Soviet Impressionism. - Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. - pp.186–188. ISBN 1-85149-280-1, ISBN 978-1-85149-280-0.
- ^ L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. - p.74-77.
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Bibliography
- Artists of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Volume 1. - Moscow: Iskusstvo Edition, 1970. - pp. 298–299.
- Vianor A. Kirillov. Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1991. - 104 p.
- Charmes Russes. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 15 Mai 1991. - p. 48-51.
- L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. - p. 144-145.
- L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. - p. 74-77.
- Peinture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 18 Fevrier, 1991. - p. 7,68-71.
- Peinture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 26 Avril, 1991. - p. 7,47-50.
- Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
- Vern G. Swanson. Soviet Impressionism. - Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. - pp. 186–188. ISBN 1-85149-280-1, ISBN 978-1-85149-280-0.
- Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 20, 24, 357, 388-401, 403-406, 439. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
- Artists of Peter's Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Saint Petersburg: Ladoga Edition, 2008. - pp. 22–23.
External links
- Nikolai Baskakov on the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
- Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
- Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.
Painters of the Leningrad Union of Artists of 1932-1991 Piotr Alberti · Nathan Altman · Evgenia Antipova · Taisia Afonina · Vsevolod Bazhenov · Irina Baldina · Nikolai Baskakov · Yuri Belov · Piotr Belousov · Zlata Bizova · Olga Bogaevskaya · Veniamin Borisov · Isaak Brodsky · Piotr Buchkin · Vladimir Chekalov · Evgeny Chuprun · Irina Dobrekova · Alexei Eriomin · Pavel Filonov · Rudolf Frentz · Sergei Frolov · Nikolai Galakhov · Irina Getmanskaya · Vasily Golubev · Vladimir Gorb · Tatiana Gorb · Elena Gorokhova · Abram Grushko · Mikhail Kaneev · Yuri Khukhrov · Tatiana Kopnina · Maya Kopitseva · Boris Korneev · Alexander Koroviakov · Elena Kostenko · Gevork Kotiantz · Vladimir Krantz · Yaroslav Krestovsky · Mikhail Kozell · Engels Kozlov · Marina Kozlovskaya · Aleksandr Laktionov · Valeria Larina · Boris Lavrenko · Ivan Lavsky · Oleg Lomakin · Dmitry Maevsky · Kazimir Malevich · Gavriil Malish · Evsey Moiseenko · Valentina Monakhova · Alexei Mozhaev · Nikolai Mukho · Mikhail Natarevich · Alexander Naumov · Piotr Nazarov · Vera Nazina · Anatoli Nenartovich · Samuil Nevelshtein · Yuri Neprintsev · Dmitry Oboznenko · Lev Orekhov · Sergei Osipov · Victor Otiev · Vladimir Ovchinnikov · Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin · Nikolai Pozdneev · Evgeny Pozdnekov · Alexander Pushnin · Maria Rudnitskaya · Galina Rumiantseva · Kapitolina Rumiantseva · Lev Russov · Arcady Rylov · Ivan Savenko · Alexander Savinov · Gleb Savinov · Vladimir Sakson · Alexander Samokhvalov · Vladimir Seleznev · Arseny Semionov · Alexander Semionov · Yuri Shablikin · Boris Shamanov · Alexander Shmidt · Nadezhda Shteinmiller · Elena Skuin · Galina Smirnova · Alexander Sokolov · Alexander Stolbov · Alexander Tatarenko · German Tatarinov · Victor Teterin · Nikolai Timkov · Leonid Tkachenko · Mikhail Tkachev · Mikhail Trufanov · Vitaly Tulenev · Yuri Tulin · Boris Ugarov · Ivan Varichev · Anatoli Vasiliev · Piotr Vasiliev · Valery Vatenin · Nina Veselova · Igor Veselkin · Rostislav Vovkushevsky · Lazar Yazgur · Vecheslav Zagonek · Ruben Zakharian · Sergei Zakharov · Maria Zubreeva
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