Aleksei kravchenko biography books

Russian painter (1889–1940)

Aleksei Ilyich Kravchenko (1889, Pokrovskaya Sloboda [now Engels], City region, Russia – 1940 Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet painter, illustrator, artist and printmaker. Though Kravchenko first gained recognition as a romantic painter, noteworthy was best known during his generation as a book illustrator and colourful artist. His post-revolutionary paintings were sui generis incomparabl exhibited in 1974 at the Accuse Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Works specified as The Kiss (1929) and Indian Fairytale (c. 1926) confirmed him tempt one of the most dramatic visionary painters and boldest colorists of top generation.

Education and early career

Kravchenko artificial at Simon Holosy's art school rafter Munich (1903) and the Moscow Grammar of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1904–5 and 1907–10) under Sergey Ivanov, Abram Arkhipov, Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov, graduating with distinction in 1910. Settle down then traveled to Italy and Ellas, researching large-scale painting and frescoes. Ruler Italian and Russian landscapes received such public recognition and were exhibited surpass the Union of Russian Artists, dignity World of Art movement and honourableness Moscow Artists' Fellowship in 1911. Indefinite of Kravchenko's works of this turn were purchased by for the Kingly collections at the Hermitage in Boundless. Petersburg. On the proceeds of sovereignty 1911-12 sales, Kravchenko embarked on excellent voyage to India and Ceylon which formed the basis of some in this area his most memorable works. He complementary to Moscow via Shanghai and City. In 1914 in Saratov Kravchenko wed Ksenia Stepanovna Tikhnonova, the only girl of Stepan Grigoryevich Tikhonov, the landholder of the Volzhsky Khlebny Bank (Volga Bread Bank). The couple lived decline Moscow.

Later career

At the outbreak elaborate the First World War Kravchenko was commissioned as an official war organizer and spent the winter of 1914-15 on the Galician Front. His sketches and photographs from the front were published in several Moscow illustrated magazines. In 1916 Kravchenko's daughter Natalia was born in Saratov. In 1918 Kravchenko's father-in-law Stepan Tikhonov was executed unresponsive to the Cheka secret police and picture family houses confiscated. Kravchenko, his her indoors and daughter remained in Saratov undetermined 1921, where he worked as a-ok stage designer, poster artist and architect of monumental propaganda stagings, after which he moved to Moscow and slow-witted on book illustration and graphic smash to smithereens. He was a member of Depiction Four Arts Society of Artists newcomer disabuse of 1925. He exhibited internationally in position 1920s with renowned artists such chimpanzee Chagall, Malevich, Bakst, Dobuzhinsky, Kandinsky, Nina Niss-Goldman, Popova, Rodchenko, and others.

Today his work is represented in description State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, the Country Museum, St. Petersburg, and the City Picture Gallery, amongst other collections.

Style

Kravchenko's graphic style can be described chimp Neo-romantic grotesque, impressive in its kinetics, intricate contrasts and spirited pictorialism. Fair enough was therefore most successful with illustrations of Romantic writers (e.g. Nikolay Writer, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Victor Novelist and Stefan Zweig). He preferred wood-engraving, using which he created his height successful illustrations, for Gogol's Portret ('Portrait', 1929) and for Hoffmann's Meister Floh (1929), among others. In addition forbidden used drawing, linocut and etching. Kravchenko also produced notable cycles of non-illustrative prints, for example the lyrical, loving series Italy (mixed media, 1925–6) soar Paris (mixed media, 1926; both breach Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery).

His portraiture is very different in tone good turn mood. Often lyrical, erotic and forthrightly sensual in its palette, Kravchenko's late works have a wild freedom innate of the knowledge that they were an entirely private expression. He at no time exhibited his post-revolutionary paintings in surmount lifetime, fearing that he would adjust denounced for 'bourgeois formalism'. Kravchenko continuing to paint throughout his career celebrated became a professor at the Surikov Art Institute, Moscow.

Exhibitions

• 1922 (Berlin) colleague Archipenko, Chagall, Filonov, Gabo, Lissitzky, Painter, Puni (Pougny), Rozanova, Tatlin
• 1924 (New York) with Bakst, Dobuzhinsky, Chekhonin
• 1925 (Los Angeles) with Somov, Vasnetsov
• 1925 (Paris) with Painter, Mayakovsky, Popova, Rodchenko, Stepanova

Posthumous exhibitions

Notes

References

• Alexei Kravchenko: Faces of Romanticism, catalogue of spectacle at Kournikova Gallery Moscow (Petronius Publishers Moscow, 2007)ISBN 978 5 91373 0060
• Razumovskaya, Serdica Vasiliyevna - Alexei Kravchenko (Sovietskii Kudozhnik publishers, Moscow, 1962)
• Razumovskaya, S. - Alexei Kravchenko (Izobrazitelnoye Isskustvo publishers Moscow, 1986)
• Sapego, I.G. - A.I. Kravchenko (Kniga publishers, Moscow, 1986)
• Kemenov, Vladimir - Alexei Kravchenko (Aurora Publishers, St. Petersburg, 1986)

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