Ilya Mashkov

Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (Russian Илья Иванович Машков; born July 29, 1881 in Michailowskaja on-Don, Russian Empire, † March 20, 1944 in Abramtsevo in Moscow) was a Russian painter.

Life

Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov was born into a peasant family in a Cossack village and was awarded the first painting lessons at the boys' grammar school in Borisoglebsk. From 1900 to 1909 studied intermittently at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Abram Arkhipov, Konstantin Korovin, Leonid Pasternak, and Valentin Serov Apollinari Vasnetsov. In 1904 he had his own studio, where he also taught in Moscow. He undertook in 1908 a trip to Germany, France, Spain and Italy and 1913/14, a. Into Turkey, Greece, Italy and Switzerland

In 1910 he was among the founders of the artists group Jack of Diamonds and exhibited there until 1914. Dawid Burljok, co-founder of the Jack of Diamonds, counted in 1913 in his contribution to the almanac Der Blaue Reiter Mashkov to the "savages" of Russia. In 1916 he became a member of the group art world, in their exhibitions he participated since 1911 and its chairman in 1917, he exhibited there until 1929.

In 1917 he was appointed classical artists. In the time of the Russian Revolution, he was 1918/19, involved in the establishment of the Department of Fine Arts at the People's Commissariat for Education ( Narkompros ). He then worked in the schools for master artists and Vkhutemas Vkhutein as a teacher. Since 1924 he was intermittently a member of the "Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia" and headed from 1926 to 1929 there the central studio. In 1922 he participated in the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin. In 1925 he became "Moscow painter". From 1932 he was a board member of the Soviet Union of Artists. He traveled to the Caucasus and to the Crimea and returned repeatedly to his birthplace Mikhailovskaya, where he held a solo exhibition in 1935. Shown at international exhibitions, his works were, inter alia, in London ( 1911), Venice (1924, 1932), New York ( 1924), Toronto and Los Angeles (1925 ), Japan ( 1927), Scandinavia ( 1927-28 ), Cologne (1929 ), Vienna ( 1930), Paris (1937 ) and Prague ( 1938).

Mashkov in 1928 awarded the Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He died in 1944 at his dacha in the artists' colony Abramtsevo.