Potapova, Olga Ananievna

Olga Potapova
Olga Potapova
Date of Birth
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Genre	painter ; schedule
Study	Shanyavsky University , Pedagogical College of MosGORONO (Department of Fine Arts)
Style	expressionism , abstractionism

Olga Anan'evna Potapova ( February 16 (28), 1892 , Orlov , Vyatka Province - May 9, 1971 , Moscow ) - Moscow nonconformist artist of the middle to second half of the 20th century.

She was given the role of “keeper of the hearth” in the Lianozovo association of poets and artists- innovators formed around her family. ^[1] A peculiar circle of aesthetic resistance gradually formed here, in which a special world was created that was not subject to the impersonal rink of the Soviet officialdom .

More than half a century, Olga Ananyevna was a faithful friend and soul mate of her husband, artist and poet Yevgeny Kropyvnytsky . In the difficult conditions of military and post-war devastation she managed not only to support the creative interests of her husband, but also to raise her son and daughter by original artists who inherited humanistic culture and independence of spirit from their parents.

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Biography

Olga Potapova was born in the town of Orlov, Vyatka Province on February 28, 1892 . In Moscow, she first appeared in 1917, at the same time she entered the University of Shanyavsky . ^[2] Here, in 1920, Olga met her future husband, poet and artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky . This meeting, among other things, marked for her the transition from rare, amateur painting to more professional ones.

The first years of life together take place on long journeys: in 1920–1923, Kropyvnytskyi was appointed to lead art workshops in the cities of the North, the Urals and Siberia: Vologda , Glazov , Tyumen ; the firstborn of young spouses, Leo , was born in 1922 in faraway Tyumen.

After returning to Moscow, the family settled in the barrack at the Lianozovo railway station (at that time - the Moscow region). Olga Potapova raises children ( Valentina’s daughter was born in 1924) and finds time to perfect her painting; ^[3] attends the workshops of Ilya Mashkov and Vasily Rozhdestvensky . In the 1930s, he teaches in schools and participates in exhibitions of artists-teachers. In 1936–1938 he graduated from the department of retraining of personnel in the field of fine arts (Pedagogical College of Moscow City Public Information Services).

From 1941 to 1957, he earned his living by means of artistic and design work (the performance of announcements, posters, banners); all free time devoting to painting.

Olga Potapova died on May 9, 1971 in Moscow.

Creativity

Olga Potapova managed to really concentrate on her own creativity only in the later years of her life, after retirement, in the years of the Khrushchev thaw . Then (in 1956) a son returned from the GULAG , after 10 years of imprisonment and exile in a fabricated case, ^[4] and in the family of his daughter (married to Oscar Rabin ) wealth appeared.

In the 50s, Olga Potapova turned to the style of abstract painting. ^[5] ^[6]

Cardiac surgeon, collector and connoisseur of Russian pictorial non-conformism, Mikhail Alshibaya, calls Olga Potapova a subtle and precise artist, and her small, “quiet” paintings are “pearls of Russian art of the 60s”. ^[7]

Exhibitions

1959: Exhibition of works by women artists for March 8, Moscow.
1966: Research Institute of Occupational Health and Occupational Diseases, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.
1967: Friendship Club. Exhibition of works of twelve artists, ^[8] Moscow.
1967: Exhibition of paintings and drawings from the collection of A. Glezer , Tbilisi, Georgia. ^[9]
1974: Forest Park "Izmailovo". 2nd autumn viewing of pictures “in the open air”, Moscow.
1975: Preliminary apartment views for the All-Union Exhibition, Moscow.
1975: VDNH, Moscow, “House of Culture”. Exhibition of works of Moscow artists.
1977: Galerie Jaquester "Oscar Rabine ei la tribu des Kropivnitski" / "Oscar Rabin and the Kropiwnicki family", Paris, France.
1979–1980: Premiere Biennale des peintres russes, Vesinet Center des arts et loisses. Montgeron, France.
1987: The Hermitage Amateur Association. “Retrospective of Moscow artists. 1957-1987. Exhibition Hall "Belyaevo", Profsoyuznaya st., 100, Moscow. ^[five]
2002: "Manege. 40 years of non-conformist art ", Moscow State Exhibition Hall" New Manege ", Moscow.
2005: “Kropivnitskie - Potapova - Rabins. Moscow, Tyumen, Paris. September 2005, Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts. ^[ten]

Family

Kropivnitsky, Yevgeny Leonidovich - husband, artist , musician , poet
Kropivnitsky, Lev Evgenievich - son, artist , poet , art historian.
Kropivnitskaya, Valentina Evgenievna - daughter, artist .
Rabin, Oskar Yakovlevich - son-in-law, artist .
Rabin, Alexander Oskarovich - grandson, artist .

Notes

↑ Peers the same age Heinrich Sapgir and Oscar Rabin in their early years were engaged in studios under the guidance of Olga Potapova’s husband, Yevgeny Kropivnitsky ; Sapgir - in literary, Rabin - in art; then they began to come to visit them, in Lianozovo.
↑ In the same years Sergey Yesenin and Lev Vygotsky studied at the University of Shanyavsky .
↑ Oscar Rabin. Memories of Olga Ananievna Potapova on Ekho Moskvy radio station, April 5, 2009. AUDIO, from the 32nd minute.
She how to tell you? You know, the opinion is not mine, this is a general opinion. It was some kind of quiet angel. I have never met such people in my life. Everyone who knew her was exactly the same opinion. This prevented her art. She was very talented, she made magnificent portraits. You know, when a person is more like a portrait than in life. An amazing talent was. Well, and abstraction, with great taste, with some kind of tenderness and sincerity. But she lived more for others. His time and soul, all gave to others. Therefore, she had little time left to do.
↑ In 1946, Lev Kropivnitsky was arrested on charges of belonging to an “anti-Soviet terrorist organization” and sentenced to 10 years in camps. He served time in the Komi ASSR and Kazakhstan. Released in 1954 without the right to leave Balkhash, he worked as a director and artist at a local cultural center. After rehabilitation (1956) he lived in Moscow. / Encyclopedia Krugosvet
↑ ¹ ² "Other Art": Moscow 1956-1976. In two volumes. - M .: Art Gallery "Moscow Collection", JV "Interbuk"; 1991. Comp. L.P. Talochkin, I.G. Alpatova. T.2. P.143.
↑
In the late 50s, when he was already retired, Potapova painted her first abstract paintings. Her new paintings consist of elements resembling the surface of minerals or distant planets. Restrained, close tones give a special density to the textured surface of the paintings.
("Nonconformists. Second Russian avant-garde, 1955-1988. Collection of Bar-Hera". Cologne, 1996. P.193.)
Article in the magazine "Snob" on March 23, 2009
↑ Among the participants are Anatoly Zverev , Dmitry Plavinsky , Oscar Rabin , Edward Steinberg and others.
With Lydia Masterkova , Vyacheslav Kalinin , Vladimir Nemukhin and others.
↑ "Evening Tyumen"
The exhibition presents the early works of Olga Potapova, who linked her life with the artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky. Portraits of a husband, girls and women, a self-portrait of Olga Ananievna. Viewers with particular interest consider her two watercolors: "View from our window in Tyumen" and "Portrait of the son of Leo."
(The newspaper "Evening Tyumen" № 39, September 2005.)

Literature

"Other Art": Moscow 1956-1976. In two volumes. - M .: Art Gallery "Moscow Collection", JV "Interbuk"; 1991. Comp. L.P. Talochkin , I.G. Alpatova. T.1. P.16, 17, 29, 31, 3, 147, 149, 153, 173, 217, 234, 241, 262, 296.
"Other Art": Moscow 1956-1976. In two volumes. - M .: Art Gallery "Moscow Collection", JV "Interbuk"; 1991. Comp. L.P. Talochkin, I.G. Alpatova. T.2. C.111, 113, 143.
“Nonconformists. The second Russian avant-garde, 1955-1988. Bar-Hera Collection. Ed. Hans-Peter Rize. Publisher Wienand, Cologne, 1996. 320 pages. ISBN 3-87909-496-0 С.11, 29, 58, 192, 193, 303.
G. Sapgir . Yevgeny Kropyvnytskyy, Olga Potapova // Strelets, № 1 (81), 1998.

Links

Photo: Artists Olga Potapova and Evgeny Kropyvnytsky in the window of an apartment on Dolgoprudnaya street. Lianozovo, Moscow, 1968. Photographer Igor Palmin .
Biography of the artist on the site ArtInvestment
"Stones" 1965 oil on orgalit, 57.5 × 57.5 cm. From the personal collection of unofficial Russian art of the 1950-1970s collector Evgeny Vladimirovich Koreshkov (in 2007 the gallery "Elysium" released a collection catalog).
“Love” 1963 oil on oilboard, 44 × 55 cm.
"Composition" 1960
"Composition" 1963
High-quality reproduction of the late “Composition” by O. Potapova from the collection of Mikhail Alshibaya . The fabric of the textural surface of the work explains the pain of the “light breathing” effect for the artist.

[1] Peers the same age Heinrich Sapgir and Oscar Rabin in their early years were engaged in studios under the guidance of Olga Potapova’s husband, Yevgeny Kropivnitsky ; Sapgir - in literary, Rabin - in art; then they began to come to visit them, in Lianozovo.

[2] In the same years Sergey Yesenin and Lev Vygotsky studied at the University of Shanyavsky .

[3] Oscar Rabin. Memories of Olga Ananievna Potapova on Ekho Moskvy radio station, April 5, 2009. AUDIO, from the 32nd minute.
She how to tell you? You know, the opinion is not mine, this is a general opinion. It was some kind of quiet angel. I have never met such people in my life. Everyone who knew her was exactly the same opinion. This prevented her art. She was very talented, she made magnificent portraits. You know, when a person is more like a portrait than in life. An amazing talent was. Well, and abstraction, with great taste, with some kind of tenderness and sincerity. But she lived more for others. His time and soul, all gave to others. Therefore, she had little time left to do.

[4] In 1946, Lev Kropivnitsky was arrested on charges of belonging to an “anti-Soviet terrorist organization” and sentenced to 10 years in camps. He served time in the Komi ASSR and Kazakhstan. Released in 1954 without the right to leave Balkhash, he worked as a director and artist at a local cultural center. After rehabilitation (1956) he lived in Moscow. / Encyclopedia Krugosvet

[autogenerated1-5] ¹ ² "Other Art": Moscow 1956-1976. In two volumes. - M .: Art Gallery "Moscow Collection", JV "Interbuk"; 1991. Comp. L.P. Talochkin, I.G. Alpatova. T.2. P.143.

[6] 
In the late 50s, when he was already retired, Potapova painted her first abstract paintings. Her new paintings consist of elements resembling the surface of minerals or distant planets. Restrained, close tones give a special density to the textured surface of the paintings.
("Nonconformists. Second Russian avant-garde, 1955-1988. Collection of Bar-Hera". Cologne, 1996. P.193.)

[7] Article in the magazine "Snob" on March 23, 2009

[8] Among the participants are Anatoly Zverev , Dmitry Plavinsky , Oscar Rabin , Edward Steinberg and others.

[9] With Lydia Masterkova , Vyacheslav Kalinin , Vladimir Nemukhin and others.

[10] "Evening Tyumen"
The exhibition presents the early works of Olga Potapova, who linked her life with the artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky. Portraits of a husband, girls and women, a self-portrait of Olga Ananievna. Viewers with particular interest consider her two watercolors: "View from our window in Tyumen" and "Portrait of the son of Leo."
(The newspaper "Evening Tyumen" № 39, September 2005.)