Vasiliy Ivanovich Silvestrov ( March 4, 1888 , p. Zhikharevka, Orel province - December 16, 1937 , Vinnitsa ) - Ukrainian Soviet artist, painter and graphic artist .
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| Study | Kiev Art College , Imperial Academy of Arts |
Biography
Born in a large family, from the age of eleven earned a living on various works, was a student in the icon painting workshop.
In 1905-12, he studied at the Kiev Art College at the Kiev Art College A. A. Murashko and G. K. Dyadchenko (the first two years as a free-listener), A. M. Kozyk , A. M. Cherkassky became his fellow students and others , I.F. Hvorostetsky . After graduating from college with honors, he received the right to enter the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture , or the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg without exams. At first, he did not study for a long time in Moscow , mainly in graphic technology, then moved to Petersburg, where he studied painting; here he became friends with Fedor Krichevsky . St. Petersburg's climate did not suit Vasily; for health reasons, he was forced to interrupt his studies without completing a course at the Academy. In 1917, he returned to Kiev and transferred to the newly formed Ukrainian Academy of Arts . After graduating from the Academy with a degree in Painting , Vasily and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna (maiden Promisan) moved to Vinnitsa .
In Vinnitsa, Vasily taught drawing at the school and worked as an artist, joined AHCHU ( Association of Artists of the Red Ukraine , participated in national, all-Union and international exhibitions, and also wrote poetry in Ukrainian.
In 1937, he was accused of complicity with the Ukrainian nationalists and shot in the courtyard of the NKVD in Vinnitsa in December 1937. He was rehabilitated on July 8, 1998 by the Vinnitsa Regional Court (the case was dismissed due to lack of corpus delicti).
He had two sons, one of them is the artist Rostislav Silvestrov (1917-1976), the grandson is the artist Platon Silvestrov (1954-2018).
Creativity
Vasily worked in many genres - portraits , landscapes and still lifes , genre paintings . He skillfully used various techniques: both pictorial and graphic ( drawing , watercolor and pastel , wood engraving and linoleum).
In 1929-31, the artist created a series of paintings and graphic works dedicated to the Vinnitsa Yerusalimke - the poor Jewish quarter. At the same time, he worked on a series of engravings for the story of Ukrainian writer Mikhail Kotsyubinsky, "He is coming."
Selected Exhibitions
1928
- XI Years of October. Kiev branch of AHUCH (painting, drawing, graphics). Vinnitsa, Ukraine (was a member of the exhibition committee)
1934
- Graphic art from the Soviet Union. Kunsthalle. Helsinki, Finland (woodcuts - illustrations for M. Kotsyubinsky’s book “He is coming”)
1937
- Exhibition of studies of Ukraine and Moldova, Museum of Russian Art. Kiev, Ukraine
2015
- Special Fund, 1937-1939 , National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine
External links
Literature
- Grigory Ostrovsky. Vinnitsa Yerusalimka in the graphic suite of Vasily Silvestrov
- Irina Olikh. Special Fund of the National Art Museum of Ukraine
- Anna Tolstova. Find and declassify
- Victor Melnik. Rosstril without the right listuvannya
- Catalog "SPECIAL FUND 1937-1939 from the collection of NHMU". Compiled by Julia Litvinets. Kiev, 2016