Khvostenko, Vasily Veniaminovich

Vasily Veniaminovich Khvostenko, a graphic artist and muralist who revived the encaustic technique , was born on August 15 (27), 1896 in the Borisovka settlement of the Graivoron district of the Kursk province .

In 1910 he entered and in 1917 graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture ( MUZHVZ ), where his teachers were A. Arkhipov , V. Baksheev N. Kasatkin , K. Korovin , A. Korin , S. Malyutin , L. Pasternak and other famous artists.

Since 1918, Vasily Khvostenko has exhibited at many art exhibitions in the RSFSR and abroad, including the exhibitions “Free Creativity”, “The Union of Russian Artists ”, and the “Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia” . In 1919-1920 worked as a decorator in the 1st Army of Turkfronts .

In 1920, V. Khvostenko was sent to Glavpolitprosvet , where he worked in ROSTA Windows together with V. Mayakovsky , N. Denisovsky , M. Cheremnykh .

In the 1930s he performed a large series of graphic drawings dedicated to the construction of coal mines and factories in the Urals.

In 1941-1945 paints pictures on the theme " Great Patriotic War ".

In the 1950s, working on political posters.

Along with this, V. Khvostenko paid great attention to the study of the encaustic technique, which he widely used to implement his creative ideas.

The works of V. Khvostenko are on display at the State Tretyakov Gallery , the Museum of Baku , the Art Picture Gallery of Kemerovo , the State Historical Museum of Borisovka, the Russian State Library , etc.

Vasily Veniaminovich Khvostenko died in Moscow in 1960. He was buried in the village of Konev-Bor ^[1] .

• Sisters. 1919. Oil on canvas. 59x79
• More metal, more cars. 1920. Tempera on wood. 16x12.5
• Portrait of a boy. 1925. Oil on canvas. 63x52
• Self portrait. 1927. H.M. 54х65
• Lenin on the armored car. 1927
• Graphic works on the construction of coal mines and plants in the Urals. 1930-1935
• Panel in the hall "Culture" VDNH. 1938. Oil on canvas. 135x100
• Fertility. 1940. Stone, encaustic. 42x80
• "The Great Patriotic War". 1941-1945, a series of paintings
• "Our came"

• “Grand Prize” —Worldwide Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris , 1927

• 1918 - VII Exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the Society of Artists "Free Art", Moscow
• 1922 - Exhibition of etudes, sketches, drawings and graphics from the life and life of the Red Army (AHRR), Moscow
• 1923 - Exhibition of paintings by the Moscow School of Artists Society, Moscow ^[2]
• 1924 - VI exhibition of paintings and sculptures AHRR "Revolution, life and work", Moscow ^[3] .
• 1925 - International exhibition of decorative arts, exhibition abroad
• 1925 - VII Exhibition of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, “Revolution, life and work”, Moscow ^[4] .
• 1926 - VIII Exhibition AHRR "Life and Life of the Peoples of the USSR", Moscow, Leningrad ^[5] .
• 1929 - Exhibition of Artists AHRR - Department of Fine Arts at the Art and Industrial Exhibition, Exhibition Abroad
• 1929 - XI Exhibition AHRR "Art to the masses", Moscow
• 1931 - XXI Exhibition of paintings dedicated to the Heroes of Labor, the drummers of social construction and the third, decisive year of the five-year plan, Avt. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1933 - Defense exhibition OSOAVIAHIM dedicated to the XV anniversary of the Red Army (painting, drawing, sculpture), Moscow ^[6] .
• 1934 - Summary exhibition of works by artists seconded by SovNarCom of the RSFSR, NarKomPros, “All Artist” and the Moscow Union of Artists of the USSR in 1933 ”, Moscow
• 1935 - Spring exhibition of Moscow painters, Moscow
• 1935 - Art exhibition "15 years of the Red Army", Ukrainian SSR
• 1936 - Exhibition of paintings by Moscow artists, Ukrainian SSR
• 1938 - Art exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture of Moscow artists, Avt. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1938 - Exhibition of paintings, sculptures and graphics contracting artists 1937, Moscow ^[7]
• 1939 - VI exhibition of the Union of Moscow Artists, Moscow ^[8]
• 1940 - Traveling exhibition of works of Moscow and Leningrad artists in the cities of the Volga region
• 1941 - Exhibition of the best works of Soviet artists, Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery ^[9]
• 1942 - Works of Moscow artists in the days of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts A.S. Pushkin ^[10]
• 1943 - The Urals in the visual arts, Avt. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1944 - Art exhibition "Ural - The Forge of Weapons", Avt. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1945 - Exhibition of works of art for the conference of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the study of the productive forces of the Molotov region, Avt. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1946 - Art Exhibition, Exhibition Abroad
• 1946 - All-Union Art Exhibition, Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery ^[11]
• 1947 - Spring exhibition of works of Moscow painters and sculptors, Moscow
• 1948 - Exhibition of paintings and drawings of Soviet artists, Auth. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1948 - Art exhibition “30 years of the Soviet Armed Forces. 1918-1948 ”, Moscow, State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin ^[12]
• 1949 - Traveling exhibition of Soviet painting and graphics, Aut. Resp., Edges and areas of the RSFSR
• 1949 - All-Union Art Exhibition of 1949, Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery ^[13]
• 1950 - All-Union Art Exhibition of 1950, Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery ^[14]
• 1953 - Spring exhibition of paintings by Moscow artists, Moscow
• 1955 - Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Moscow
• 1957 - Exhibition of painting, sculpture, graphics for the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Artists, Moscow ^[15] .

• In 1949, the Soviet Artist Publishing House issued a postcard with a reproduction of Vasily Khvostenko's Our Came.

• Tatyana Khvostenko : “... I did not start from scratch. My father, Vasily Veniaminovich Khvostenko, is an artist and researcher who developed the technology and techniques of modern encaustic. Thanks to his works, encausticism from the former “troublesome kind of painting”, as Pliny wrote about it, turned into a convenient, accessible for every artist technique. The priority of V. V. Khvostenko in the development of encaustic is officially enshrined in copyright certificates, and most importantly - in his work. The hereditary Russian painter (his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were icon painters), who revived the ancient art of encaustics — wax painting — predetermined my range of interests and research. We have worked with him side by side for a long time ” ^[16] .

• Father - Veniamin Khvostenko, icon painter and musician
• Mother - Pelageya Ivanovna Khvostenko
• Wife - Alexandra Yakovlevna Voitinskaya-Khvostenko. She graduated from higher female courses in St. Petersburg ( Bestuzhev courses )
• Brother - Alexander ( 1895 - 1967 ) - Russian and Ukrainian Soviet artist - avant-gardist and designer. Winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949).
• Brother - Vladimir
  • Daughter - Tatiana (1928–2005) - an artist, restorer, member of the Union of Artists of Russia , author of a number of books (including the two-volume book “Evenings at Maslovka near Dynamo”). Participant of various international, all-Union and republican exhibitions. She was buried in the village of Konev-Bor ^[17] .
    • Granddaughter - Maria Mendeleeva (1962) - designer-architect ^[18] .

• Maslovka - artists town: Khvostenko, Vasily Venyaminovich
• Posters.ru Khvostenko Vasily Venyaminovich
• "Evenings on Maslovka near Dynamo." - M . : Olympia Press, 2003. - ISBN 5-94299-021-2 . - two-volume book with the memories of the artist and restorer Tatiana Vasilyevna Khvostenko.