Victor Dmitrievich Zamirailo (1868-1939) - Russian artist in the field of book graphics .
| Victor Dmitrievich Zamirailo | |
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 B. Zamirailo. Figure B. Kustodiev , 1922 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Cherkasy , Kiev province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Peterhof , Leningrad , USSR |
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| Genre | graphic illustrator |
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Biography
He studied at the Kiev drawing school N. I. Murashko [1] .
In 1884, in Kiev, he helped M. A. Vrubel . Vrubel painted a portrait of V. D. Zamirailo; his watercolor is also known - Olga Dmitrievna Zamirailo. During the restoration of the frescoes of the Cyril Church, he helped V. M. Vasnetsov , performing inscriptions and ornaments for his paintings in the Vladimir Cathedral. Since that time, Zamirailo has always remained an ardent admirer of Vrubel: A. A. Sidorov, noted that “... Zamirailo set off from Vrubel in his science fiction, but this one ... who was unlike anyone else, was even more fascinated by Gustave Dore ”; in addition, he was close to the work of the illustrator of the XIX century I. J. Granville [2] [3] .
Having moved to Moscow, he continued to work with Vasnetsov for some time. In 1900, he worked on the design of the book by A. S. Pushkin “A Song about the Things Oleg”: Victor Vasnetsov made graphic illustrations, and Zamirailo made the font design of the book [4] . Then he moved to St. Petersburg (1904), where he made friends with the artists of the World of Art association, and then returned to Moscow (1907).
Since the late 1900s, for a long time he worked on a large series of Capricci drawings.
In 1914, A.N. Benois attracted him to the paintings of the Kazan station in Moscow. In the same year, Zamirailo finally moved to St. Petersburg, where book graphics became his main occupation.
V. D. Zamirailo illustrated the publication of the works of Lermontov (1914-1916) [5] .
After 1917, V. D. Zamirailo collaborated with the State Publishing House, the private publishers Alkonost , Epoch; became a recognized book cover master. In addition, he was an excellent illustrator who worked especially successfully in a children's book, where he made drawings for the fairy tale “Jack is the Vanquisher of the Giants” (1921), “Riddles” by V.F. Khodasevich (1922), “As if nothing it happened " A.N. Tolstoy (1924)," Don Quixote "by M. Cervantes (1925)," Gulliver's Travels "by J. Swift (cer. 1920s)," The Little Ripper "by J. Greenwood (1929).
Since 1896, V. D. Zamirailo has been an active participant in exhibitions: a member and exhibitor of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers (1896–1898), the Moscow Association of Artists (1904–1911), the Union of Russian Artists (1908–1911), and the World of Art (1911 -1924). The exhibition of his works in the House of Arts opened a series of personal exhibitions of Petrograd artists. His works were exhibited abroad: at a traveling exhibition of Russian art in the USA and Canada (1924-1925; New York, Toronto, Los Angeles), at the international exhibition Book Art in Leipzig (1927).
In 1925-1929 he taught at the Leningrad VKhUTEIN .
He died in Peterhof , in a nursing home, in 1939. He was buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, in Old Peterhof . In the last years of the artist's life, Elena G. Nikolaeva (1903-1986) took care of him [6] . After the death of V.D. Zamirailo, she became the executor of the entire creative heritage of the artist. [7] .
Contemporaries of V. D. Zamirailo
A verbal portrait of Zamirailo was left by B. M. Kustodiev’s daughter [8] , Irina: “He was a strange and eccentric man and must be infinitely miserable and lonely” [9] .
After visiting the exhibition Zamirailo in the House of Arts K. Somov wrote: “There are a lot of wonderful things, he could be a wonderful artist, if he sometimes didn’t interfere ... slavish love for Dora” [10] .
The art critic V.V. Voinov noted the work of V. D. Zamirailo: “... dreams, almost subconscious dreams, the most incredible phantasmagoria swarming in the head, see how acute reality is and fixes them so precisely in its many drawings ... everything fantastic becomes really convincing " [11] [12] .
Notes
- ↑ Sources indicate years of study: 1881-1886 or graduation in 1884.
- ↑ Biographies: Victor D. Zamirailo on the blog
- ↑ E. L. Schwartz , talking about K. I. Chukovsky , mentions that in the 1920s “young artists disrespected him, said he was the epigone of Dore.”
- ↑ “The Song of the Thing Oleg” is a beautiful gift book, which in the late 1980s released a reprint edition of this masterpiece of graphic art.
- ↑ Kovalevskaya E.A. Zamiraylo Victor Dmitrievich // Lermontov Encyclopedia / USSR Academy of Sciences. Inst. Rus. lit. (Pushkinsk. House); scientific ed. Council of the Soviet Encyclopedia Publishing House; ch. ed. V. A. Manuylov ; editorial: I. L. Andronikov ... [and others. ]. - M .: Sov. encycl., 1981. - 746 p.
- ↑ Married. Mikhailova, poetess; in the 1920-1930s. - one of the most sought-after Leningrad models, posing, including, for B. Kustodiev’s painting “Russian Venus” and for V.V. Lebedev ’s painting “Girl with a Guitar”
- ↑ About the last days of life of V.D. Zamirailo - Kurds V.I. “Memorable days and years. Notes of the artist. " - St. Petersburg: "Arsis", 1994. - S. 56–67; see also: “Sixteen Fridays: The Second Wave of the Leningrad Vanguard.” At 2 o'clock // "Experiment / Experiment: Journal of Russian Culture." No. 16: LA (USA), 2010. Part 2. C. by decree.
- ↑ In August 1919, B. M. Kustodiev made a pencil portrait of V. D. Zamirailo. Also known is a portrait made in 1918 by G.S. Vereisky .
- ↑ Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. Letters. Articles, notes, interviews. Memories of the artist. - L., 1967 .-- S. 327.
- ↑ Somov K. A. Letters, diaries, judgments of contemporaries. - M., 1979. - S. 160, 162.
- ↑ Kudrya A.I. Kustodiev. - M .: Young Guard, 2006 .-- S. 215.
- ↑ Warriors V. Zamirailo // Matins. Prince 2. - Pg. , 1922. - S. 129, 130.
Literature
- Ernst S.R.V. D. Zamirailo. - PG., 1921.
- Gollerbach E.F. Drawings and prints by V. D. Zamiraylo. - Kazan, 1925.
- Ivanenko A. Storyteller Strange // Book Art. - M., 1975.
Recommended
- Victor Dmitrievich Zamirailo. 1868-1939. In 2 books. - St. Petersburg: K Gallery, 2018.