Abram Arkhipov
Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (Russian Абрам Ефимович Архипов; * 15 Augustjul / August 27 1862greg in the government of Ryazan, .. † September 25, 1930 in Moscow) was a Russian- Soviet painter who primarily devoted himself to landscape painting.
Life
He grew up in the village in the province of Ryazan Jegorowo in a peasant family. In the period from 1877 to 1883 and from 1886 to 1888 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Here he studied under the direction of Vasily Perov, Vasily Polenov, Illarion Prjanischnikow, Alexei Sawrassow and Vladimir Makovsky. In addition, he studied during the interruption of this study in the years 1884-1886 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In the second phase of his studies in Moscow, he received a silver medal for the image hospital visit ( Посещение больной ).
In 1891, Arkhipov was a member of the Peredvizhniki. In the years 1886 and 1912 he visited other European countries, including France, Germany and Italy. Since 1912, he frequently traveled to the north of Russia. In 1904 he was one of the founders of the Union of Russian Artists.
Since 1894 Archipow headed the landscape painting class at the Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow. In 1898 he received the title of academician. After the October Revolution he took part in the restructuring of the university. His teaching he continued until 1924. The First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 showed his paintings market, farmer's wife, while reading the newspaper. Most recently, in the last war with Poland, his image was issued Burning Russian village. A. J. Arkhipov died in 1930 in Moscow.
His works are mostly exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery and sporadically in Belarusian Art Museum in Minsk.
Works (selection)
- The drinker ( Пьяница ) ( 1883)
- Icon painter in the village ( Деревенский иконописец ) ( 1889)
- Washerwomen ( Прачки ) (variants on this subject emerged in the 1890s and 1901 )
- The River Oka ( По реке Оке ) ( 1890)
- Reverse ( Обратный ) ( 1896)
- Village in the north ( Северная деревня ) ( 1902)
- Guests ( Гости ) ( 1914)
- Girl with jug ( Девушка с кувшином ) ( 1927)