Alexey Vasilievich Grishchenko ( April 2, 1883 , Krolevets , Chernihiv province - January 28, 1977 , Vance , France ) - Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, art critic, art critic and memoirist. One of the most famous Ukrainian avant-garde artists .
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| Ukrainian Oleksiy (Oleksa) Vasilovich Grishchenko | |
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| Birth name | Alexey Vasilievich Grishchenko |
| Date of Birth | April 2, 1883 |
| Place of Birth | Krolevets , Chernihiv province , Russia |
| Date of death | January 28, 1977 (93 years old) |
| A place of death | Vence , France |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
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Biography
The son of a bank employee. Early left an orphan. In 1905-1912 studied at the universities of St. Petersburg , Kiev , Moscow and received a biologist diploma.
In 1905 he was engaged in drawing and painting in the private studio of S. I. Svetoslavsky in Kiev. After two years of work in Kiev (1906-1908), he left for Moscow in search of a real “artistic life,” but he did not achieve much success in the capital.
In 1909-1910 borrowed experience in the Moscow art school-studio from K. F. Yuon and I. O. Dudin , in 1911-1912 - studied under I. I. Mashkov and P. P. Konchalovsky in Moscow.
In 1911 he visited Paris , in 1912 he traveled to the cities of Russia, studying ancient Russian painting. In the years 1913-1914. traveled to Italy. He painted impressionist landscapes , experimented in the spirit of cubism and Fauvism , used the techniques and images of the Russian icon , Ukrainian popular print , Italian fresco painting.
Member of the association " World of Art " since 1917.
In May 1917 he joined the Council of the Professional Union of Artists and Painters of Moscow (Sozhiv), in 1918 - the All-Russian Collegium for Museums and the Preservation of Antiquities. He organized the export of paintings by old masters from the collection of the princes Baryatinsky from the front line. In 1919 - taught at the State Agricultural Art School .
Exhibitor of contemporary art exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg: the New Society of Artists (1910), the Jack of Diamonds (1912) and the Union of Youth (1913, 1914), the Free Art exhibitions (1913/1914), and the Painting Exhibition 1915 city ”(1915), leftist movements in art (1915), Modern Russian painting (1916/1917), etc.
In the fall of 1919 he went to Kiev, then to Sevastopol , from where he moved to Constantinople , since 1921 he lived in France.
Since 1923, he held a number of personal exhibitions in Paris , Madrid (1934), Barcelona (1935), Stockholm , Gothenburg (1937), Limoges (1943, 1944), Strasbourg (1951, 1953, 1955), Cagnes sur Mer (1960, retrospective), Toronto (1960).
Member of the Autumn Salon (since 1923; member of the salon since 1931), the Tuileries Salon (1945, 1947) and the Independent Salon (1946-1949). He participated in the 1st Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin (1922), exhibitions of Russian art in Brussels (1928), Paris (1929, 1932) and Prague (1935), in the Russian section of the exhibition "Contemporary French Art" in Moscow (1928). In 1953, works were exhibited at the London Redfern Gallery at the exhibition "Russian Emigrant Artists in Paris."
An active figure in the Paris group of Ukrainian artists , maintained close ties with the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (ANUM) in Lviv .
An art critic, author of theoretical studies in the field of art (“On the Relations of Russian Painting with Byzantium and the West” (1913, “Russian Icon as the Art of Painting” (1917)), program manifestos of “left” avant-garde movements, and memoirs “Ukraine of My Blue Days” , “Two years in Constantinople”, “My meetings with French creators”, “Years of storm and onslaught”.
A significant part of the artistic heritage of Grishchenko in 2006, according to his will, was transferred to the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev. The artist's works are also presented at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris , the Royal Museum of Copenhagen , the Royal Museum of Brussels , the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid , the museums of Lviv , Strasbourg, Oslo , Stockholm, Montreal, Boston and Philadelphia , in the State Russian Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery .