Danila Ivanovich Vasilyev (December 16 (28), 1897, stanitsa Kagalnitskaya near Rostov-on-Don - March 22, 1958, Melbourne , Australia) - Australian artist and sculptor of Russian origin.
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Biography
Occurred from the kind of Don Cossacks. After graduating from a vocational school in Novocherkassk and an artillery school in St. Petersburg , in 1917, during the First World War , he was called up to the Western Front.
In 1918 he joined the White movement, participated in the battles. After the defeat of whites in the European part of Russia, he fled to Baku , where he was arrested in 1920, but almost immediately managed to escape to Iran.
In 1923 he managed through China , having lived for some time in Shanghai , and Hong Kong to get to Australia . In Australia, he worked as a mechanic on the railway, managed to buy a sugar plantation.
In 1929, having received Australian citizenship before that, he went to France to study painting, then moved to Brazil for a while, to Rio de Janeiro , where he took drawing lessons from the émigré artist D. V. Izmailovich [1] .
In the early 1930s he traveled, stopping in Great Britain, Spain, Portugal and especially British Guiana (now Guyana ), whose nature and life was especially inspired and where he wrote many landscapes.
In 1935 he returned to Australia, first to Sydney , and in 1937 he moved to Melbourne , where he lived until the end of his life.
From 1939 to 1946 he taught drawing at the experimental school for children.
Since the late 1940s, he worked not only as an artist, but also as a sculptor.
In 1954-1957 he taught drawing in provincial schools, but was dismissed for too "free" teaching methods.
In the last year of his life he was left without a means of livelihood and was forced to sell his paintings.
Creativity Vasiliev, is believed to have been influenced by Van Gogh , de Flamanca and Soutine , and in terms of sculpture - Henry Moore . Among the themes of his works are urban scenes, landscapes in the style of expressionism, fantastic compositions, portraits; in most paintings, special attention is paid to color.
In 1947, he wrote a series of watercolors on the ballet "Peter and the Wolf."
From 1947 to 1953, he was mainly engaged in sculpture, creating his works from local stone. The most famous are his small semi-abstract sculptures “The Mechanical Man” and the sculpture “Stenka Razin” created in 1953, exhibited at the National Gallery in Canberra .
Literature
- F. Moore. Vassilieff and his art. Melbourne, 1982.
- An article in the Great Russian Encyclopedia.
Notes
- ↑ Kolupaev V.E. Russian features in Brazil in the second half of the 20th century // Yearbook of historical and anthropological research for 2011/2012 / RUDN, Interuniversity Research Center for Comparative Historical and Anthropological Research. M: EKON-INFORM, 2012. c. 48 - 60. ISBN 978-5-9506-0928-2