Nikolai Baskakov

Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov
Born	May 8, 1918 Astrakhan, Soviet Russia
Died	October 14, 1993 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Field	Painting
Training	Repin Institute of Arts
Movement	Realism

Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Бакка́ков; May 8, 1918, Astrakhan city, Soviet Russia - October 14, 1993, Saint Petersburg, Russia) - Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.

Biography

Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov was born May 8, 1918 in Astrakhan city on the Volga River.

In 1933–1939 years Nikolai Baskakov studied of the famous Russian art educator Pavel Alekseevich Vlasov in Astrakhan Art School. From 1939 to 1945 he served in the Red Army in the Soviet Far East.

Lenin in Kremlin. 1960

In 1945 Nikolai Baskakov comes to Leningrad and entered at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of Leonid Ovsannikov, Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Alexander Zaytsev.

In 1951 Nikolai Baskakov graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Boris Ioganson workshop together with Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maya Kopitseva, Anatoli Levitin, Avenir Parkhomenko, Arseny Semionov, Mikhail Trufanov, Boris Ugarov, and other young artists. His graduation work was historical painting "Lenin and Stalin in Smolny"

Since 1951 Nikolai Baskakov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted battle and historical paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, sketchs from the life. Nikolai Baskakov worked in the technique of oil painting and drawing.

Nikolai Baskakov was a Member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1951

For the art of Nikolai Baskakov typical appeal to the themes of large public sound, and to the image of a contemporary, disclosed in a picture-portrait. He was most famous for the impressive portraits of contamporaries painted in realistic style.

Among the most famous works by Nikolai Baskakov are paintings "Music" (1957), "On the Russian Land" (1968), "Milkwomen" (1962), "Victory" (1974), "Portrait of Vasily Shukshin" (1983).

The West discovered the art of Nicholas Baskakov in 1989, when his portraits and genre paintings were first shown in Paris at the auctions of the Leningrad school artists. Subsequently many of his works were acquired by American private collections.

In 1991 Saint Petersburg publishing house "Khudozhnik RSFSR" issued a monograph by V. Kirillov, devoted to creation of Nikolai Baskakov.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov died on October 14, 1993, in Saint Petersburg at the seventy-six year of life. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in the Russia, Japan, in the U.S., Germane, England, France, and throughout the world^{[citation needed]}.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of Russian artists
• List of 20th century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• List of the Russian Landscape painters
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Gallery

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  Lenin in Kremlin. 1960

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  Cool Summer. 1978

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  Istanbul. 1968

Bibliography

• Artists of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Volume 1. - Moscow: Iskusstvo Edition, 1970. - pp. 298–299.
• Vianor A. Kirillov. Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1991. - 104 p.
• Charmes Russes. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 15 Mai 1991. - p. 48-51.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. - p. 144-145.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. - p. 74-77.
• Peinture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 18 Fevrier, 1991. - p. 7,68-71.
• Peinture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 26 Avril, 1991. - p. 7,47-50.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Vern G. Swanson. Soviet Impressionism. - Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. - pp. 186–188. ISBN 1-85149-280-1, ISBN 978-1-85149-280-0.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 20, 24, 357, 388-401, 403-406, 439. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Artists of Peter's Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Saint Petersburg: Ladoga Edition, 2008. - pp. 22–23.

External links

• Nikolai Baskakov on the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
• Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.