Nikolai Timkov

Nikolai Efimovich Timkow (Russian Николай Ефимович Тимков, scientific transliteration Nikolai Jefimovič Timkov; born August 12, 1912 in Rostov-on- Don, † December 25, 1993 in Leningrad, USSR ) was a Soviet- Russian painter and member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. and is considered one of the most important representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Career

Timkow 1927-1931 studied at the Art School in Rostov-on- Don, 1933-1939 at the Department of Painting of the Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad. He studied with renowned artists and teachers of the Academy like Isaac Brodsky, Arkadi Rylow, Mikhail Bernstein, Vladimir Serov and Alexander Lyubimov. In 1939 he completed his studies at Brodsky with a dissertation entitled " A day in the city" ( Выходной день за городом ).

After studying Timkow was drafted for military service in the Baltic Fleet, and remained until 1946 Marine soldier. During the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad Timkow was one of the city's defenders. 1943 Timkow was admitted as a member of the Soviet Artists' Union in Leningrad. In 1947 he exhibited at the premises of the Union of Artists from the first time. Paintings of Timkow were then shown in Moscow, Leningrad, Rostov-on- Don and other cities of the USSR in 1957, 1964, 1975, 1982, 1993. In 1987 he received the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Since the early 1960s Timkow spent every summer in the village Walentinowka at Wyschni Wolotschok in Kalinin Oblast. There he created most of his many paintings and sketches. In winter he put the other work in his Leningrad workshop. Timkow was henceforth counted among the great masters of Russian landscape painting. Of his work hanging in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and other major museums in Russia, as well as in many private collections in Russia and abroad. Even after his death, his work recognition and attracted great interest from abroad. Two published in the United States books deal with it .. exhibitions of his paintings were in the cities of San Francisco ( 1998, 2000, 2001), Aspen (1999), New York (1999, 2001), Scottsdale (2000), Palm Beach (2000), Vail (2001), Washington (2001) and carried out in other cities. These were increasing his fame as " Russian Impressionism " and made him one of the most famous Soviet artists.

Works (selection)

The village Wyra. 1956

Leningrad motif. 1959

August at Akademitschka. 1960

Morning. 1963

It's time to make hay. 1963

Field. 1965

Summer day. 1965

Spring. 1967

The field. The first snow. 1967

The city of Torzhok. 1968

Russian Winter. Hoarfrost. 1969

The river MSTA. 1970

Fireweed. 1970

Dacha in Akademitschka. 1972

Field. 1975

First Snow. 1980

The city Hosta. 1985

The Bear Mountain in Gurzuff. 1986

Crimea. 1988

Literature (selection )

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Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1954 года. Каталог. Л. , Изогиз, 1954. С.19.
Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1955 года. Каталог. Л. , ЛССХ, 1956. С.18.
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Вторая республиканская художественная выставка " Советская Россия ». Каталог. М. , Советский художник, 1965. С.38.
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Наш современник. Каталог выставки произведений ленинградских художников 1971 года. Л. , Художник РСФСР, 1972. С.21.
По родной стране. Выставка произведений художников Ленинграда. 50 Летию образования СССР посвящается. Каталог. Л. , Художник РСФСР, 1974. С.25.
Наш современник. Вторая выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1972 года. Каталог. Л. , Художник РСФСР, 1973. С.11.
Наш современник. Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1975 года. Каталог. Л. , Художник РСФСР, 1980. С.26.
Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Каталог выставки. Л. , Художник РСФСР, 1976. С.32.
Выставка произведений ленинградских художников, посвящённая 60 - летию Великого Октября. Л. , Художник РСФСР, 1982. С.22.
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Saint- Petersbourg - Pont -Audemer. Designs, Gravures, Sculptures et Tableaux du XX siecle du fonds de L' Union des Artistes de Saint- Petersbourg. Pont- Audemer, 1994. Р.96, 100, 105, 110
Лирика в произведениях художников военного поколения. Выставка произведений. Каталог. СПб. , 1995. С.6.
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