Pyotr Konchalovsky

Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (Russian Пётр Петрович Кончаловский; born February 21, 1876 in Slowjansk, Russian Empire; † February 2nd 1956 in Moscow) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and stage designer.

Life

Pyotr Konchalovsky grew up as the son of an art book publisher on in Ukraine and began his drawing training at the Maria- Rajewskaja - Ivanova - drawing school in Kharkov. The family moved to Moscow in 1889, and he attended during his high school years classes at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In Paris he studied from 1896 to 1898 with Jean -Paul Laurens and Jean- Joseph Benjamin -Constant at the Académie Julian. Then he studied intermittently from 1898 to 1907 at the Art Academy in Saint Petersburg. Among his teachers there were Sawinski, Hugo Salemann and Pawel Kowalewski. In 1902 he made ​​a trip to Italy, again in 1904 and was several times in France ( 1907-08, 1910, 1913), in France and Spain (1912 ) and together with Vasily Surikov, 1914 in Germany and Italy. After the First World War he was in 1924/25 once again travel to Italy and France.

Since 1908, he participated in various exhibitions and artists' groups: " Golden Fleece ", " brotherhood ", the art world (1911, 1912, 1915-22 ) and "New Society of Artists ". In France he exhibited in the Salon d' Automne (1908, 1910) and the Salon des Independants (1908, 1910-12 ) from. He was in 1911 one of the founders of the artists group Jack of Diamonds and was its president in 1911, but resigned in 1916 again. Dawid Burljok, co-founder of the Jack of Diamonds, counted Konchalovsky 1913 to the "savages" of Russia in his contribution to the almanac Der Blaue Reiter. He was in the "Moscow Artists" in the group " existence " ( 1926-27 ) and organized into the "Society of the Moscow Art " and in the "Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia" ( 1926).

Since 1918 he worked as an art teacher at liberal arts schools and was from 1926 to 1929 worked as a teacher at Vkhutemas and Vkhutein. As a stage designer, he had since 1905, orders from different stages: the Zimin Opera (1905, 1912), the Bolshoi Theatre ( 1920-21, 1932, 1944-45 ) and the Stanislavsky Nemirovich -Danchenko Theatre (1921, 1932).

In 1922 he had in the Tretyakov Gallery with 165 works from his first to 1951 fifteen solo exhibitions. In 1922 he participated in the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin. He was shown abroad in the Exhibition of Russian Art in New York ( 1924) and in the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris ( 1925). In the Soviet Union, he made long trips to the Crimea, to Novgorod and Pskov (1925, 1926, 1928), in the Caucasus (1927, 1935) and to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk (1936).

In later years he painted in the style of officially demanded Socialist Realism. Konchalovsky 1946 was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR, and he also received the Stalin Prize in 1942. In 1947 he became a member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

Konchalovsky the eldest daughter of the painter Vasily Surikov was since 1902 with Olga, married, they had the daughter Natalia (1903) and his son Mikhail ( 1906). Among their descendants are a number of artists, his son was the Soviet poet Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov. Konchalovsky is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.