Zinaida Serebriakova

Zinaida Evgenevna Serebrjakowa (Russian Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова, scientific transliteration Zinaida Evgen'evna Serebrjakova; * Novemberjul 30 / 12 December 1884greg in Neskutschnoje in Kharkiv, .. † September 19, 1967 in Paris) was a Russian painter and a representative of the Russian Impressionism, who lived in France since her emigration in 1924.

Life

Zinaida Evgenevna Lansere was born in a upper middle class family of artists, a grandfather, Nikolai Leontyevich Benois, was an architect, the brother of her mother, Alexander Nikolaevich Benois, was a painter co-founder of the artist group I Iskusstwa. Her father, Yevgeny Alexandrovich Lansere was a sculptor. The brother Nikolai Jewgenjewitsch Lansere was known as an architect, another, Evgeny Lansere, as Soviet monumental painter. A younger relative was the actor Peter Ustinov.

After high school she attended from 1900 private art schools and the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and had Repin and Ossip Bras as a teacher. She traveled to Italy and visited in 1906 in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere.

1905 she married the engineer Boris Serebrjakow ( 1882-1919 ), a cousin. They had four children, Yevgeny, Tatiana, Alexander and Ekaterina.

In 1910 she attracted with its mirror image on the dressing table a great sensation in an exhibition of the group "I Iskusstwa ". The image was immediately purchased by the Tretyakov Gallery. In the group of painters, it was recorded in 1911, was in her with her painting style but rather an outsider. Her husband died in 1919 of typhoid fever, and the dispossessed as a result of the October Revolution family had to struggle through. Zinaida Serebrjakowa had worked for the Archaeological Museum in Kharkiv and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and some pastels her daughter Tatjana painted while this ballet student at the Mariinsky Theatre was when she received a 1924 Malauftrag in Paris. She remained in exile and could retrieve her two younger children, Alexander (1907-1994) and Yekaterina (* 1913), while the older children remained in the Soviet Union.

During World War II she received French citizenship. After XX. Congress of the CPSU were Serebrjakowas work in 1960 again demonstrated in Moscow and 1966 in Leningrad and Kiev, and found great success, she was for a trip to the Soviet Union at that time already too sick.

She died in 1967 and is buried in the Russian cemetery in Sainte -Geneviève -des- Bois. A part of her estate went to the Soviet Union.

• Gallery

Pierrot (1911 )

Landscape of 1908 on a Russian stamp of 2009

Portrait of the wife of her brother Yevgeny, Olga Konstantinovna Lansere, born Arzybuschewa, from 1910 on a Soviet stamp of 1988