Biography
In 2018, art communities were remembered by Alexander Gerasimov - at the end of July, 55 years old since the death of the outstanding Soviet artist, which was called the favorite of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin himself. His picturesque ("After the rain") and portrait works ("Portrait of Ballerina O. V. Lepheinskaya") and is now generously stored in the Tretyakov Gallery.Childhood and youth
August 12 (on a new style) of 1881 in the family of merchant Mikhail Gerasimov, who lived in a two-story house in the city of Kozlov, later renamed Michurinsk, was replenished - Sasha's son was born. Perhaps it was the favorite name of his parents, because adults called Alexander and the older daughter.
On the early biography of the famous artist of the arts of information. It is known that he at first visited the local church-parish school, then a county school and just open Sergey Krivatsky "artist", in parallel with the admiration of trafficking in the father.
At 22, the guy enrolled in the famous men, where Konstantin Korovina ("Winter", "in the boat"), Ambraama Arkhipova ("Bratka", "Drunka") and Valentina Serov ("Girl with Peaches", "Girl, Illuminated Sun ").
From 1915, Alexander participated in the First World War, after demobilization returned to his homeland. In 1925, Gerasimov finally moved to the capital, entered Ahr, engaged in teaching, and in the future he became the chairman of the Union of Artists of the USSR and the first president of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union.
Painting
At the beginning of the creative path of Gerasimov, it was very important to impressionism and only to 40 years I found myself in socialism, having glorified by the paintings dedicated to Soviet history, "Hymn October", "There is a subway!" and a series of portraits of Joseph Stalin and Clement Voroshilov.In addition, it is also known for his work filled with love for nature and the native land - "Banya", "Thunderstorm" and "After the Rain" ("Wet Terrace"). The process of creating the last detail told the sister of the artist:
"" Mitya, rather a palette! " - shouted Alexander to his assistant Dmitry Panin. The picture that brother called the "wet terrace", arose with lightning speed - it was written for three hours. Our modest garden gazebo with a corner of the garden received a poetic expression under the brush. "Alexander Gerasimov was very controversial in kind. With ease, he could sacrifice the colossal amount into the Defense Fund during the Great Patriotic War and also easily limeting the worst enemy since Robert Falka Study, without a waiting for his own anti-Semitic face.
However, in the future Gerasimov, he himself suffered from politics: Stalin's favorite at the board of Nikita Khrushchev had to be disadvantaged - he was freed from the posts occupied, and the canvas seized from the museum assembly.
Personal life
Among other picturesque works are available at Gerasimov and the "portrait of his wife", and the "family portrait", where the tea table is captured by the wife of Lydia Nikolaevna, the daughter of Galina and the beloved sister Sanya.
Lydia Nikolaevna was an interesting person: in Saratov studied with the daughters of Stolypin, he worked in a civil war at the headquarters of the South Front in Kozlov, where in the service met with Trotsky, possessed a subtle artistic taste: tablecloths, napkins, curtains and curtains in the house embroidered her hands.
Death
Alexander Mikhailovich died on July 23, 1963 at the age of 81, death has come for natural reasons. The Internet portal "Motherland" noted:"They say that in the last years of life to the question" How are you? " Gerasimov answered: "In oblivion, like Rembrandt." His death in 1963 was not seen by anyone: neither necrologists, nor the government commission on the organization of the funeral, nor the Creative Heritage Commission ... "For oblivion, however, still passed: in 2016, the first summer of the Soviet artist opened in the historical museum of Moscow in the historical museum of Moscow, such a large-scale monographic exhibition of Gerasimov pictures.
Paintings
- 1913 - "After the Spring Thunderstorm"
- 1929-1930 - "Lenin on the Tribune"
- 1934 - "Family Portrait"
- 1935 - "After the rain" ("Wet terrace")
- 1938 - "I. V. Stalin and K. E. Voroshilov in the Kremlin "
- 1939 - "Portrait of a ballerina O. V. Lepheinskaya"
- 1942 - "Anthem October"
- 1944 - "Portrait of the oldest Soviet artists"
- 1946 - "Rye"
- 1949 - "There is a subway!"
- 1950 - "noon. Summer day"
- 1951 - "Thunderstorm"
- 1951 - "Portrait of a daughter"
- 1953 - "Bombay dancer"
- 1957 - "Portrait of folk artist of the USSR A. A. Apple, E. D. Turchaninova, V. N. Ryzhova"