Adolf Alexandrovich Shevchenko (born on June 17, 1930, Ivanovo , USSR - August 9, 2018 , Kaliningrad ) - Soviet and Russian artist , graphic artist , master of linocuts . A member of the Union of Artists of the USSR , a member of the Union of Artists of Russia . Honored Artist of Russia .
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Biography
Born on June 17, 1930 in the city of Ivanovo . In 1945 he entered the Ivanovo Art School . He studied with one of the founders of the Ivanovo art school, Ivan Nikandrovich Nefedov, Honored Teacher of the RSFSR Seraphim Nikolaevich Troitsky, People's Artist of Russia, State Prize Winner Mark Ivanovich Malyutin [1] . He graduated from college in 1950.
In 1951 he entered the State Art Institute in Vilnius of the Lithuanian SSR, the faculty of graphics, the workshop of the People’s Artist of the USSR Vytautas Yurkūnas . Juozas Kedainis , People’s Artist of the Lithuanian SSR, Jonas Kuzminskis , People’s Artist of the Lithuanian SSR, Augustinas Savickas, People’s Artist of the Lithuanian SSR, were also teachers. In 1957 he graduated from the institute and moved to Kaliningrad .
Since 1965 a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (since 1992 - the Union of Artists of Russia ).
At various times in the Kaliningrad organization of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, he was a member of the board, secretary of the party bureau, deputy chairman of the board, chairman of the organization’s audit commission. For 2 years he was elected chairman of the regional branch of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1980-82), delegate to the III, V, VI congresses of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (1972, 1981, 1987) and the VI congress of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1983).
He was a member of the board of the Soviet-Polish friendship society established in Kaliningrad. He was elected a deputy to the Oktyabrsky District Council of Workers' Deputies (1969-1971), a candidate member of the city committee of the CPSU (1980-1984).
Died 09/09/2018 in Kaliningrad, buried on 11.08.2018 at the city cemetery of the village. A. Kosmodemyansky
Creativity
A. A. Shevchenko works in different techniques: engraving, watercolor , oil , pastel and gouache . He achieved a special skill in linocut technique, which could not be better suited to his chosen topics. In his creative manner reflected the best features of the Russian and Lithuanian art schools. He learned from the Ivanovo masters not only to create realistic images, but also to saturate them with creative pathos, thereby glorifying the working man. Lithuanian masters, in turn, showed the future artist a special approach to form, which combines rigor, accuracy and expressiveness.
In his work at different stages he experienced the influence of the “ severe style ” of the Soviet poster and the traditions of Russian printed graphics of the beginning of the twentieth century. The works of A. A. Shevchenko are distinguished by a laconic language, strictness of forms, attention to detail, and excellent mastery of technology. He writes genre compositions and domestic scenes, portraits, landscapes. The focus of his work is on the following topics: the formation of the Kaliningrad region , the life and life of the workers of the sea, the nature of the Kaliningrad region. Author of a series of linocutures: “Kolkhoz Fishermen” (1), “Kolkhoz Fishermen” (2), “Port”, “Builders”, “Monuments of Koenigsberg”, “Cosmos”, “Fishermen's Territory”, “Kaliningrad Region Rises”, “Coast” Baltika "," Past and Present "and others. Created a series of works in other techniques: pastel (" At Svetlovsk Ship Repair Plant "), a simple pencil (" At TsBK-1 "and" Izmiran "), gouache (" At Kaliningrad fish-canning Combine ").
All linocuts A. A. Shevchenko were printed in small editions: usually no more than 10 prints.
The main heroes of A. A. Shevchenko's works were people of working professions - those with whose direct participation on the site of the ruins of the German city of Königsberg grew the Soviet city of Kaliningrad . The most western edge of Russia acquired a new look in front of the artist. The restoration of the city after the war required tremendous efforts and the hard work of thousands of people. Their daily feat is captured in the graphic series of A. A. Shevchenko. Today, these works are not only artistic, but also historical value, because many details of the life of those years are forever gone.
The marine theme is one of the favorite ones in the artist's work: the harsh everyday life of sailors, ships in the port and in repair, fisheries and coastal landscapes. The life of the "workers of the sea", hard, but interesting and intense, was embodied in the images of harsh people pulling the nets working in the port, going into the open sea in a storm and storm. The picturesque landscapes of the Baltic coast occupy an equally important place in the works of A. A. Shevchenko.
He worked in the Kaliningrad art-production workshops, performed a number of works for printing - mock-ups for labels, posters, advertising brochures. Together with the architect A. V. Maximov, he executed a number of draft designs for the architectural and artistic design of lighting advertising, including for the Mayak department store and the Russia cinema. He created several monumental compositions in Kaliningrad and the region, including a monumental composition in the technique of three-layer graffiti on the theme “Cosmos” on the facade of a building on Cosmonaut Leonov Street. In collaboration with V. Mikhailovsky, he carried out a project for the architectural and artistic decoration of the Baltika restaurant and other objects. Illustrated several books, including a collection of short stories "When the Sea is Restless" (1975).
Exhibitions
The participant of more than 100 exhibitions (12 of them are international, 25 republican and 12 personal). The works of A. A. Shevchenko are in collections of 20 museums, including the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of Fine Arts; Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art ; The Museum of the World Ocean ; Republican Art Museum of Buryatia; Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts ; Art Museum in Shadrinsk; Dagestan Museum; Yaroslav-Rostov Museum; Kursk Museum; Murmansk Museum of Local Lore ; Novgorod Art Museum; Arkhangelsk Museum ; Ryazan Art Museum; Karelian Museum of Fine Arts; Chechen-Ingush Museum; Rybinsk Art Museum; Local History Museum in Veliky Ustyug; Stavropol Museum of Fine Arts; Art Gallery in Orel; Picture Gallery in the village. Shushenskoe; Art Museum in Brussels and private collections.
Awards and prizes
- 1984 Medal " Veteran of Labor "
- 2001 Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree
- 2002 Listed in the Name book of the organizers of the formation and development of the Kaliningrad region
- 2005 Badge of Honor "60 years of the formation of the Kaliningrad region"
- 2010 Silver Medal of the Union of Artists of Russia
- 2013 Honored Artist of Russia
- 2014 Professional Award "Recognition" for achievements in the field of literature, theater, music and art
Literature
- Kaliningrad Union of Artists of Russia. On the 60th anniversary of the All-Russian Public Organization of the All-Russian Public Organization of Artists' Organization “Union of Artists of Russia” Art album / G. V. Zabolotskaya, L. V. Tambovtseva and others. Kaliningrad: Pictorics, 2013
- 100 names. Works of portrait genre from the collection of the Kaliningrad Art Gallery . Kaliningrad: Art Gallery, 2013
- Kaliningrad region in linocut Adolf Alexandrovich Shevchenko: album / Art Gallery; avt.-status. E. Timofeeva-Toropova. Kaliningrad: Kaliningrad book, 2016
- A. Shevchenko "The Edge of Real People." Booklet-catalog on the exhibition materials. Kaliningrad, FGBUK Museum of the World Ocean , series “The Artist and the Sea”, 2016
Work Gallery
- Series "Kaliningrad region is rising"
1969. Paper, linocut, 67x43 cm.
At the construction site. 1969. Paper, linocut, 47x63 cm
Portrait of painter Tanya Sivova. 1964. Paper, linocut. 68x44 cm
Portrait of a slinger Nina Balina. 1968. Paper, linocut
Today and tomorrow. 1969. Paper, linocut. 47x60 cm
Moscow avenue. 1986. Paper, linocut. 40x72 cm
Welders. 1969. Paper, linocut, 48x65 cm
Ivan Frolovich Radin - buster of the farm "Zorino". 1984. Paper, linocut, 55x69 cm
- Baltic Coast
Moonlight evening. 1983. Paper, linocut, 59x52 cm
Pines and dunes. 1966. Paper, linocut, 66x46 cm
Amber catchers. 1983. Paper, linocut, 50x65 cm
On the western frontier. Cape Taran. 1987. Paper, linocut, 63x58 cm
Dune of the Sea. 1983. Paper, linocut, 47x69 cm
White flowers. 1988. Paper, linocut, 50x70 cm
Coastal Dunes. 1983. Paper, linocut, 55x60 cm
Children from the village Rybachy. 1969. Paper, linocut, 45x73 cm
- Past and present
Turret above Pregolya. 1994. Paper, linocut, 54x39 cm
Kaliningrad motive. 1987. Paper, linocut, 69x47.5 cm
Amber Museum. 2000. Paper, linocut, 40x51 cm
Sport Complex "Youth". 1981. Paper, linocut, 42x49 cm
Trestle bridge. 1981. Paper, linocut, 42x49.5 cm
On the way to Sovetsk. 1964. Paper, linocut, 38x81 cm
- Fishing land
Veteran of the fleet. 1974. Paper, linocut, 67x48 cm
Fresh breeze. Cabin boy. 1959. Paper, linocut, 48x37 cm
There will be a storm. 1959. Linocut paper, 38x54 cm
Suspension networks. 1959. Paper, linocut, 35x48 cm
CPT at the pier. 1961. Paper, linocut, 37x56 cm
Letters came. 1963. Paper, linocut, 82x58 cm
Triptych "Network. Silence". Sheet II. 1984. Paper, linocut, 47x37 cm
Osip Mikhailovich. 1984. Paper, linocut, 49,5x61 cm
New boat. 1984. Paper, linocut, 50x65 cm
In the sea fishing port. 1986. Paper, linocut, 40x40 cm
The shift is coming. 1959. Linocut paper, 48.2x83.7 cm
A memorial sign to the sailors of ocean fishing. 1981. Paper, linocut, 42x30 cm
At the floating base. 1986. Paper, linocut, 40x40 cm
In the seaport. 1983. Paper, linocut, 47x64 cm
On the stocks. 1962. Paper, linocut, 46x58 cm
Links
Notes
- ↑ Kaliningrad Union of Artists of Russia. On the 60th anniversary of the Union of Artists of Russia, GOO Zabolotskaya, L. V. Tambovtseva. - Art album. - Kaliningrad: Pictorira, 2013. - ISBN 978-5-903782-22-2 .