Nikolai Galakhov

Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov
Born	May 29, 1928 Kazan, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Field	Painting
Training	Repin Institute of Arts
Movement	Realism
Awards	Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Гала́хов; May 29, 1928, Kazan, USSR) - Soviet, Russian painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, living and working in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,^[1] most famous for his landscape paintings.

Biography

Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov was born May 29, 1928, in Kazan city, Tatar Republic, USSR, on the Volga River.

In 1942 Nikolai Galakhov entered in Kazan Art School, which graduated in 1947. In the same year he comes to Leningrad and joined the first course of painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. He studied of Leonid Ovsannikov, Josef Serebrany, Piotr Belousov, Juri Neprintsev.^[2]

In 1953 Nikolai Galakhov graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Rudolf Frentz workshop. His graduation work was a genre painting named "Nikolai Nekrasov on the Volga River", dedicated to prominent Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher in the 19 Сentury Nikolai Nekrasov.^[3]

On the Volga River. 1993

Since 1949 Nikolai Galakhov has participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted landscapes, genre compositions, worked in oils, tempera, pastel, watercolors, and pencil drawing. Solo Exhibitions by Nikolai Galakhov were in Leningrad (1988) and Saint Petersburg (2010).

In 1950s years in painting of Nikolai Galakhov been dominated by the Volga River landscape, later images of northern Karelia. Northern landscapes of Nikolai Galakhov combined mood of peace and quiet, yet preserved in these places. The artist admits that he is alien to nature, in which there is violence against her by civilization.^[4]

In his works Nikolai Galakhov has consistently advocated the principles of picture-landscape, with well-developed plot basis and elements of the genre. Methods of realize of pictorial ideas near to works of known Russian landscape painter Arcady Rylov.

In 1984 Nikolai Galakhov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation.

Nikolai Galakhov is a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1955.

Paintings by Nikolai Galakhov reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in the lot of Art museums and private collections in Russia, China, England, in the U.S., Japan, 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

1. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.9, 19, 20, 24, 359, 372, 389-407, 445.
2. ^ Nikolai Galakhov. This is my Motherland. - Saint Petersburg: Art-Centre, 2009. - pp. 7, 11.
3. ^ 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.69.
4. ^ Exhibition of works by Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov. Catalogue.- Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. - p.8

Gallery

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  July on the Volga River. 1983

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  Soompasal village in Karelia. 1983

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  In mouth of Volkhov River. 1975

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  Wharf on the Volga River. 1962

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  Spring in Karelia. 1975

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  Sunny day in Kem town. 1985

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  On the Volga River. 1980

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  Karelian birches. 1985

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  A Midday on the Volga River. 1975

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  On the Volga River. 1975

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  Summer at Vetluga River. 1972

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  A Fall sun. 1982

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  Spring in Karelia. 1995

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  A Midday. 1980

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  First snow in Kem town. 1974

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  Wildflowers. 1998

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  Week-end in Karelia. 1992

Bibliography

• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0953206106, ISBN 978-0953206100.
• Vern G. Swanson. Soviet Impressionism. - Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. - pp. 21, 122.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 19, 20, 24, 359, 372, 389-407, 445. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Nikolai Galakhov. This is my Motherland. - Saint Petersburg: Art-Centre, 2009. - pp. 7, 11. ISBN 978-5-91421-005-9.

External links

• Nikolai Galakhov 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.

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Name	Galakhov, Nikolai
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Date of birth	May 29, 1928
Place of birth	Kazan, USSR
Date of death	1988
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