Shcherbakov artist biography

Open in Appendix 1 Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov--Soviet, Russian-living artist; The author of paintings on historical, historical-revolutionary and modern topics, portraits of contemporaries. Born on March 25 on April 7 in Petrograd in the family of the famous Russian artist Valentin Semenovich Shcherbakov -, a student of I. Repin, a graduate of the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of the Franz Alekseevich Rubo, Boris Valentinovich, firmly decided to become, like his father, a painter.

The son inherited from his father not only talent for painting, but also fantastic hard work. In the year, Shcherbakov entered the picturesque faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The artist tried himself in various artistic genres. He wrote complex thematic paintings, portraits, still lifes, landscapes. In the collection of the Sochi Art Museum named after Dmitry Dmitrievich Zhilinsky, a number of landscape paintings by Shcherbakov, conveying the latitude of the expanses of Russian nature, are stored.

It is interesting that B. Shcherbakov dedicated more than twenty years of his life to work on landscapes associated with the memorable literary places of Russia, he was engaged in the unraveling of the Genius Loci concept of the genius of the place. And this is not by chance: the artist knows and loves classical literature, is fond of poetry, he writes poetry. In addition to paintings of Russian nature, each series presents portraits of writers: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy is depicted on the banks of the river Voronki in Yasnaya Polyana, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev-in Spassky-Lutovinov, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in Mikhailovsky; The artist in Lermontov places traveled with great interest; He worked in places where he lived and wrote about Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov.

In the post -war years, the work of Shcherbakov is characterized by the creation of a number of interesting thematic paintings and significant portraits. These include the Pushkin canvas, created by the artist during the period of stay in Leningrad, and now presented in the constant exposition “Russian Art of the XIX -XX centuries. Here is the historical portrait of the great writer.

Alexander Sergeyevich is depicted on a cloudy winter day on the banks of the Neva, on the arrow of the Vasilievsky Island. On a pavement, covered with loose snow, traces of the wheel of the carriage are visible, through the sky-covered with lead clouds the sky is barely breaking through sunlight. In the background, the golden spire of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, covered with snow, is visible.

In the left side of the canvas, at the foot of the rostral column, there is a magnificent sculpture, which was made by the master of F. Tibo and symbolizes the Neva. Interestingly, Boris Valentinovich twice wrote Alexander Sergeyevich twice in St. Petersburg, depicted on the Vasilyevskaya Strelka. The second option was made by the artist in the year and is now stored in the collection of the All-Russian Museum A.

Pushkin St. Petersburg. The appearance of Pushkin, presented on the portrait of our museum, is somewhat different from the version of the author’s repetition. But their main similarity is the character of Pushkin, which the artist felt and talentedly handed over to the viewer, plunging into the biography and work of the writer. The image of Alexander Sergeyevich on the canvas of Shcherbakov is covered with great charm and internal grandeur.

The character of the poet was a special reflection in clothes. On the head of Alexander Sergeyevich a high black cylinder, which allowed the poet to seem visually higher; Throw a fur collar on the shoulders, demonstrating the status and material well -being of its owner; Hands are covered with gloves. But the most important touch to the majestic portrait is a magnificent heavy fur coat, the floor of which literally swung open from the hero’s step, thereby showing the fur lining.

Alexander Sergeyevich holds a wooden cane with a knob in his right hand. The tan, the material and color of the cane have similarity with the real cane of A. Pushkin, in the knob of which the button with the monogram of Peter I was embedded. According to legend, this button from the uniform of Peter the Great was stored by A. Hannibal, the ancestor of the great poet.

Now the cane is stored in St. Petersburg at the memorial museum-apartment A. The cane entered the museum in the year, so B. Shcherbakov could see it during preparation for writing the picture and symbolically portray it in the portrait of Alexander Sergeyevich in St. Petersburg. On other portraits of Pushkin, Shcherbakov’s brush “Pushkin in Mikhailovsky”. State Museum-Reserve A.

Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye", Pushkin Mountains; "Pushkin in the evening by the lake." Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye", Pushkin Mountains We will also see this attribute. It is known that Alexander Sergeyevich went with a cane for walks, Pushkin collected them. In the writer’s collection, a variety of wooden canes with tanning stones, and iron bodies, occupied an important place. Apparently, for Boris Valentinovich this attribute was an integral part of Pushkin's image.

Boris Valentinovich always managed to emphasize the main psychological characteristics of a person and display his inner world, even if the portrait is a hero of another era.In our portrait, Pushkin's facial features are subtly transmitted. His gaze, directed into the distance, expresses deep thoughtfulness, perhaps even the spiritual sadness of the poet, who was severely experiencing the intrigue of St.

Petersburg. A reminder of the intrigues of secular Petersburg and the fame of the writer in the northern capital are the figures of a lady with a satellite, located at the fence of the Neva embankment at a layout with a lantern. Alexander Sergeyevich, turned his back to the river, does not see the girl's gaze, who turned into an interest in the poet. She is dressed in a bright blue rotunda - female outerwear in the form of a spacious cape, trimmed with white fur and harmonizing with a girl’s hat.

Perhaps she recognized the famous poet and therefore was distracted from the beautiful winter look from the embankment of the Vasilyevsky arrow. The cold gray-brown gamma prevailing in the picture, accompanied by the restless expression of the poet’s face, a cane transferred by the artist in dynamics-all this creates the general mood of the picture. Sochi Art Museum. Zhilinsky Shcherbakov B.

Pushkin in St. Petersburg. All -Russian Museum of A. Pushkin 4.