Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov

Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
Born	August 21, 1894 Bezhetsk, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	August 20, 1971 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Field	Painting, Graphics, Art teaching
Training	Repin Institute of Arts
Movement	Realism
Awards	Order of Lenin

Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов; August 21, 1894, Bezhetsk, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire - August 20, 1971, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) - Soviet Russian painter, watercolorists, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the founder and brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.

Biography

Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov was born August 21, 1894 in town Bezhetsk, Tver Governorate of the Russian Empire.

In the sun. 1953

In 1914 Alexander Samokhvalov entered at the Higher Art School under the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, which is already finished only after World War I and Revolution in the new Russia. He studied of Vasily Beliaev, Gugo Zaleman, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Vasily Shukhayev.

In 1923 Alexander Samokhvalov graduated from Petrograd Vkhutein (since 1944 known as the Ilya Repin Institute) in Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin workshop.

Since 1914 Alexander Samokhvalov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, worked in monumental and easel painting, black-and-white art, sculpture, decorative and applied art, in Art illustration of fiction and poetry.

Cafe in Gurzuf. 1956

Alexander Samokhvalov was a member of 'Krug' (1926–1929) and 'October' (1930–1932) Artists Associations.

Since 1932 Alexander Samokhvalov was a member of Leningrad Union of Artists.

The leading theme of Alexander Samokhvalov creation was image of the Youth of Soviet. He was awarded of Gran-Prix and Gold Medals at the International Art Fair in Paris, France, in 1925 and in 1937 years. In 1967 Alexander Samokhvalov was awarded an honorary title of the Honored Art Worker of Russian Federation.

His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1963, 1968), Saint Petersburg (1994), Tver (1994).

Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov died in Leningrad on August 20, 1971. His paintings and graphics reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, France, in the U.S., Japan, Germane, England, and throughout the world.

See also

• Cafe Gurzuf (painting by Alexander Samokhvalov)
• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Gallery

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  Naked model. 1958

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  On the Beach. 1964

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  Cafe in Gurzuf. 1956

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  In the sun. 1953

Bibliography

• Irina Barshova, Kira Sazonova. Alexander Samokhvalov. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1963.
• Alexander Samokhvalov. My Samarkhand-land. - Saint Petersburg, Iskusstvo Rossii, 1993.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0953206106, ISBN 978-0953206100.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 3, 20, 24, 369, 380-396, 398, 399, 401-406, 439, 442, 443, 444, 446. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.

External links

• Alexander Samokhvalov 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.