Filipp Malyavin

Filipp Andreevich Maljawin (Russian Филипп Андреевич Малявин, scientific transliteration Filipp Andreevič Maljavin; * 10.jul / October 22 1869greg in the settlement Kasanka, Samara province, .. † December 23, 1940 in Nice ) was a Russian painter.

Life

Filipp Maljawin was born in 1869 into a large peasant family. In 1885 he went to the Orthodox Monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Mount Athos in Greece and lived there until 1891 as a monk. He trained and worked in the monastery's icon painting workshop. The sculptor Vladimir A. Beklemishev, who visited the monastery, Maljawins saw work and invited him to come to Saint Petersburg.

From 1892 onwards Maljawin visited as a guest student, the painting department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. 1894, when the painter Ilya Repin opened a studio at the Academy, Maljawin studied with artists such as Igor Grabar, Konstantin Somov and Anna Ostroumova. In 1900 Maljawin travels to France, where his laughing image ( Смех ) is shown at the World Exhibition in Paris and won a gold medal. The painting was later exhibited in Italy and acquired by the Italian government for the Venetian Academy.

After his return to Russia Maljawin mainly lives on a farm near the village Axinjino in Ryazan. In the first decade of the 20th century, he participated in exhibitions of the cooperative of migrant exhibitors ( Товарищество передвижников ). In 1906, he shows at an exhibition of the association world of art ( Мир искусства ) his picture Cyclone ( Вихрь ). Later he became a member of the Union of Russian Artists ( Союз русских художников ).

After the October Revolution Maljawin attracts 1920 to Moscow. In 1922, he traveled back to France to host a show there. He settled there and does not return to the Soviet Union. In 1924, he shows very successfully his works at the Paris gallery Charpentier. Many of his works that arise abroad, continue to have a thematic connection to Maljawins Russian homeland. In the 1930s, provides Maljawin his pictures in various European countries. He moves from Paris to Nice.

March at the beginning of World War II, at the moment when the Nazi German troops in Belgium, located Maljawin holds on in Brussels. He was arrested by the German occupying forces and accused of espionage, but soon released. On foot it is reflected in the turmoil of war to Nice by what badly strained his health. On December 23, 1940 dies Filipp Andreyevich Maljawin in Nice.