Igor Pavlovich Ruban (June 12, 1912, Ruzayevka , Penza Province - 1996, Moscow ) - painter , graphic artist , Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR , Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR , Honored Polar Officer of the USSR , member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR .
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Biography
Born on June 12, 1912 at the Ruzayevka station in the Penza province . Descendant of the writer Vasily Ruban . Father, Pavel Semenovich Ruban, participated in the construction of the Kazan Railway [1] .
In the 1920s, the artist's family moved to Moscow to Solyanka . In 1927-1929 he studied at the studio of Xavier Pavlovich Chemko (Studio on Tverskaya), where he taught Dmitry Nikolayevich Kardovsky [1] . About five years Ruban wrote in the workshop of Igor Grabar .
In 1934 he began his creative career. In the years 1934-1935, Igor Ruban visited the workshop of K. K. Zefirov . In 1935, he made a creative trip to the oil fields of Kazakhstan , and then to the Caspian Sea [2] .
At the beginning of World War II he served as the foreman of a company in the militia in the Leningrad district of Moscow [3] .
In 1942 he graduated from the Moscow Art Institute [3] .
In 1944, as an ordinary member of the expedition, he entered the Arctic, where he began working on a polar theme. Member of Arctic expeditions, ice-breaking routes, expeditions to the islands of the Kara and Barents Seas, drift of the SP-4 station . The report on the trip to SP-4 was a personal exhibition of the works of IP Ruban in Moscow in 1954, which aroused great interest. In 1955, the USSR Ministry of Communications suggested that the artist make postage stamps with drawings of a drifting station [4] . In total, 4 stamps with the artist's drawings were issued (CFA No. 1851-1853, 1893). The Soviet artist publishing house issued postcards with his drawings.
He was part of the wintering team at the drifting stations "SP-13" , "SP-14" , "SP-15" , "SP-17" [5] . According to the recollections of the head of the SP-17 expedition, Yu. B. Konstantinov , Ruban wrote sketches from morning till night, made sketches to work at night — he tied a light bulb to a pencil [6] . The polar explorers proudly called IP Ruban “our artist” [7] . The result of the work of Ruban in the Arctic expeditions was his numerous paintings, as well as literary works.
In 1956-1957 he participated in the second continental Antarctic expedition . The sketches made during the trip at Mirny , Pionerskaya , Vostok stations and the Kooperatsiya motor ship were later included as illustrations in Igor Ruban's book Without Sunglasses [8] . Based on the sketches collected during the voyages and trips, I. Ruban wrote seventeen paintings for classrooms and classrooms of the Faculty of Geography for the main building of Moscow State University [9] . In the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, many of the themes of the exhibition are solved with the help of his paintings, specially written for the museum [9] .
The artist devoted more than forty years to the polar theme, creating an artistic chronicle of the development by the Russian people of the lands of the Arctic and Antarctica [10] . Ruban devoted a number of his works to well-known researchers of the past - Semyon Chelyuskin , Georgy Sedov , Vladimir Voronin and others. His personal exhibitions have been held since 1935 in Moscow, Leningrad, Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk and other cities [5] .
Legacy
The artworks are presented in the collections of the following museums and galleries in Russia [11] :
- State Historical Museum .
- State Tretyakov Gallery [9] .
- State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan .
- Ivanovo Regional Art Museum .
- Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko .
- Magnitogorsk Picture Gallery.
- Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia [12] .
- Museum of the Navy [10] .
- Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts [13] [14] .
- Novokuznetsk Art Museum [15] .
- Novosibirsk State Art Museum .
- Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic [16] .
- Saratov State Art Museum named after A.N. Radishchev .
- Tchaikovsky Art Gallery [5] .
- Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local Lore .
- National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
General view of the drifting station "North Pole". The Mi-4 helicopter. CFA No. 1851. Hood. I. Ruban. 1955
Station "North Pole". Scientific observations. CFA No. 1853. Hood. I. Ruban. 1955
General view of the drifting station "North Pole". CFA No. 1893. Hood. I. Ruban. 1956
Awards and titles
- Honorary polar explorer of the USSR (1955) [17] .
- Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1966) [5] .
- Honorary Citizen of the Arctic Village of Tiksi (1979) [5] .
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1988) [18] .
Proceedings
- Ruban I.P. Without sunglasses: Notes by the artist. - M .: Art , 1959. - 105 p.
- Ruban I.P. North of Chukotka. - M .: Soviet artist , 1964. - 71 p.
- Ruban I.P. Far from the mainland. [About the Arctic. Traveling notes of the artist] (Russian language) // Artist : magazine. - 1964. - No. 7 . - S. 58-60 .
- Ruban I.P. Flag over ice: dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the development of the Soviet Arctic. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1967 .-- 143 p.
- Ruban I.P. In the footsteps of the “Russian Colombian” (Russian). // Ural Pathfinder : Journal. - 1970. - No. 6 . - S. 14-21 .
- Ruban I.P. Exotics and what it is from itself (Russian language) // Art : journal. - 1982. - No. 3 . - S. 54-60 .
- Ruban I.P. The ice. People. Meetings - L .: Gidrometeoizdat , 1985 .-- 192 p.
- Ruban I.P. At the two poles. Notes of the artist (Russian language) // Polar Star (journal, Yakutsk) : journal. - 1989. - No. 2 . - S. 117-120 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Ageeva M.V. “He sees color as few in Russia”: Igor Ruban - a student of Grabar (Russian). // Russian Art: Journal. - 2010. - No. 3 (27). - S. 115.
- ↑ Ageeva M.V. “He sees color as few in Russia”: Igor Ruban - a student of Grabar (Russian) // Russian Art: Journal. - 2010. - No. 3 (27). - S. 119.
- ↑ 1 2 Ageeva M.V. “He sees color as few in Russia”: Igor Ruban - a student of Grabar (Russian). // Russian Art: Journal. - 2010. - No. 3 (27). - S. 120.
- ↑ Sashenkov E.P. “Polar mail”. Stations. M .: Communication, 1975. Chapter 9.9.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Tchaikovsky Art Gallery
- ↑ Konstantinov Yu. B. Us carries to the island of Jeannette [Text] / [Lit. edited by N. Plotnikov]. - Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1968 .-- S. 56.
- ↑ Dolgopolov N. Antarctica today (Russian). // Knowledge is power: magazine. - 1957. - No. 6. - S. 8
- ↑ Ruban I.P. Without dark glasses: Notes of the artist. - M.: Art, 1959.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Vvedensky O. V., Solonko N. A., Kalugina E. B. Educational opportunities of museums in St. Petersburg for conducting integrated lessons in geography and fine art // Science and Education in the XXI Century: Theory, Practice, Innovations : Collection of scientific papers on the materials of the International scientific-practical conference June 2, 2014. In 4 parts. Part III. M .: "AR-Consult", 2014. C. 151.
- ↑ 1 2 Museum of the Navy .
- ↑ Painting by I.P. Ruban in the State Catalog of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation
- ↑ Site of the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia
- ↑ Shatokhina, O. Vremya Novostei [Video] / O. Shatokhina, A. Smirnov, M. Yunosov // Telekon. 2017.4 July.
- ↑ Shatokhina, O. Painting in the conditions of eternal winter [Text] // Telekon. 2017.4 July.
- ↑ State Catalog of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation
- ↑ Museum website
- ↑ Semushkin T. The story of the flight to the Arctic // Spark. 1955. No. 40.P. 13.
- ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of August 30, 1988.
Literature
- Catalog of the exhibition of works by the artist Igor Pavlovich Ruban "10 years of work in the Arctic" / Enters. Articles Corr. Acad. Arts of the USSR V. M. Lobanov and Ph.D. geo Sciences M. Zotina. - M. , 1955. - 23 p.
- Dolgopolov N. Antarctica today (Russian). // Knowledge is power : magazine. - 1957. - No. 6 . - S. 8-9 .
- Olshevsky V.I. Igor Pavlovich Ruban. - Soviet artist . - M. , 1958. - 63 p.
- Halamnsky Yuri. Marine painters: romance of the sea. - M .: Soviet artist , 1967. - S. 116. - 122 p.
- Exhibition of works by the Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR, Honorary Polar Igor Pavlovich Ruban. Catalog. - M .: Soviet artist , 1974.- 24 p.
- Igor Pavlovich Ruban: Painting, Graphics: Catalog / compiled by V. G. Slugin; Auth. Art. I.A. Vakar. - M .: Soviet artist , 1988. - 40 p. - ISBN 5-269-00199-3 .