Alexander Nikolaevich Volkov

Alexander Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Волков; * 19 Augustjul / August 31 1886greg in Fergana, .. † December 17, 1957 in Tashkent) was a Russian artist, one of the pioneers of modern art in Central Asia.

Life and work

Volkov studied from 1908 to 1911 Natural Sciences at the University of Saint Petersburg, as well as art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Alexander Makovsky. Since 1910, he completed an art education at the private schools of Bernstein and Nicholas Roerich, and from 1912 to 1916 at the Art School of Kiev. He was of the painting of the Russian Symbolist Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) influenced.

1916 Volkov moved on to Tashkent, where he was a teacher at the local Art Institute is active initially and then in 1922 became the director of the cult of the proletariat theater. The First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 showed his watercolor road at night.

The Six female figures emerged in 1917-18, showing his very personal style, which accommodates the tradition of the Russian Orthodox icons, oriental art, painting, Vrubel and the medieval stained glass art and combines with elements of Cubism and Suprematism.

1924 Volkov took part in the first exhibition of the Association of active discussion revolutionary art in Moscow. In 1928 he became a member of AChRR (Russian Ассоциация художников революционной России, Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia ).

Volkov was awarded the Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR.

Works (selection)

Exhibitions

Collections

• Collection of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
• Collection of George Costakis