Charlemagne, Lidia Ivanovna

Charlemagne Lidia Ivanovna was born on April 5, 1915 in Petrograd on Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street . Her father, Charlemagne Ivan Adolfovich , was a representative of the fifth generation of Charlemagne artists in Russia, by descent of hereditary nobles, immigrants from France. Mother Charlemagne Alexandra Sergeevna, Russian. Having lost both parents in a civil war at the age of five, Lida with two sisters ended up in an orphanage in Vladikavkaz. In 1921, she was taken up by the Novosad family from Vladikavkaz. Foster father Novosad Ivan Timofeevich served as an accountant, his wife Elena Vasilievna was a housewife.

After graduating from a nine-year school in 1930, Lydia Charlemagne left foster parents and went to Novorossiysk, where she first worked at a cement plant, then two years on the collective farm to them. I. Stalin "ordinary collective farmer." In 1932 she entered the Novorossiysk Maritime College at the electromechanical department, after which she worked for a year as an electrician.

In 1934, his father’s brother was discovered - Joseph Adolfovich Charlemagne , who lived in Tbilisi, professor of the Academy of Arts of Georgia, Honored Art Worker of the Georgian SSR, son of Adolf Iosifovich Charlemagne, academician of battle painting, who died in 1919 ^[2] , grandson of academician of architecture Charleman Joseph Iosifovich (1824-1870) and great-grandson of the architect Charlemagne Joseph Ivanovich (1782-1861). Lydia Charlemagne moved to her uncle in Tbilisi, where she studied for two years at the graphic department of the Academy of Arts, showing extraordinary abilities, perseverance and character. However, as she wrote in her autobiography dated the early 1950s, “the pursuit of painting made me leave Tbilisi in search of a more prosperous school of painting.” In 1938, L. Charlemagne entered the Surikov Institute in Moscow at the Faculty of Painting, where she managed to finish 4 courses.

After the outbreak of the war, she was evacuated to the city of Borovskoye, Kustanai region, and a year later she made a call to Samarkand, where the institute was evacuated. In Samarkand, L. Charlemagne gave birth to a child from her first marriage, but she soon broke up with her first husband and remarried to the artist and teacher Debler Alexander Adolfovich from Leningrad. In 1944, due to changing family circumstances, she transferred to LIZSA in Leningrad, which she graduated in 1948 from the workshop of B. Johanson with the qualification of an artist. Thesis - the picture "Surgeon Pies before the operation" ^[3] .

Since 1948 she participated in exhibitions, exhibiting her works together with the works of leading masters of fine art of Leningrad. She worked mainly in the genre of thematic paintings and portraits, less often landscape and still life. In 1948 she was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists . Among the works created by Lydia Charlemagne, paintings "Girlfriends" ^[4] (1955), "Roses", "Taranka. Still Life ” ^[5] (both 1956),“ Portrait of a student ” ^[6] (1957),“ Young Locksmith ”,“ Schoolgirl from Pereslavl ” ^[7] ,“ Horses ” ^[6] ,“ Portrait of the Old Bolshevik P. E. Lebedev "," Apples. Still-life " ^[7] (all 1958)," A team of fitters-installers of the factory Krasny Vyborzhets "," V. I. Lenin and A. M. Gorky in Gorki ” ^[8] (both 1961) and others.

Charlemagne Lidia Ivanovna died in 1963 in Leningrad. Her works are in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.

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• Spring exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1955. Catalog . - L: LSSH, 1956. - p.20.
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• Autumn exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1958. Catalog. - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1959. - p.30.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Catalog . - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1963. - p.19.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Catalog . - L: Artist of the RSFSR, 1964. - p. 43.
• Matthew Cullerne Bown. A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian And Soviet Painters. 1900 - 1980s. - London: Izomar Limited, 1998.
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• Anniversary Directory of graduates of the St. Petersburg Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin of the Russian Academy of Arts. 1915-2005. - St. Petersburg: "Primrose", 2007. - p. 60.

• List of painters of the Leningrad Union of Artists