Exhibition "Ivan Evstigneev. Painting. Graphics" Automatic translate

Exhibition “Ivan Evstigneev. Painting. Graphics ”is exhibited in the halls of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts on bright May days, when our whole country celebrates a truly holy and great holiday - Victory Day. The works of the master, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, presented to the public, are included in a series of festive events with a sonorous chord, allowing the language of fine art to vividly and simultaneously penetrate the dynamics of military battles, the characters and strength of spirit of Soviet soldiers, the stress of military everyday life and the sadness of the post-war period.

Ivan Vasilyevich Evstigneev (1899-1967) - Soviet artist, battle painter, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1963), director of the restoration of the Battle of Borodino panorama.

Ivan Vasilyevich Evstigneev was born in 1899 in the village of Nizhnye Maslovo, Zaraisk district, Moscow region, into a poor peasant family. In 1911, the family of the future artist moved to the Lyubotin station, where Ivan Vasilyevich’s father got a job as a weigher on the railway. In the same year, I. Evstigneev went to study at the railway school. When the First World War began, the artist’s father was mobilized and Ivan Vasilyevich remains the only breadwinner in the family. First, he worked as a weighman in place of his father, and then in 1917 he transferred to the paint shop of railway workshops.

At the end of 1919, I. Evstigneev volunteered for the Red Army. He is credited with a trumpeter at the headquarters of the 52nd cavalry regiment of the 9th Crimean cavalry division. After the end of the civil war in 1923, the future artist went to Moscow with the intention of studying painting. G.I. Kotovsky signs Ivan Vasilyevich’s description and recommendations, but he managed to get into the rabfak arts at VKhUTEIN only in 1925.

In the early days of the Second World War, Ivan Vasilievich volunteered for the militia of Moscow. spent three years at the front as an ordinary. In between battles he did sketches, studies and sketches, portraits. in 44, he was recalled from the front and enrolled in the studio to them. M.B. Grekova, uniting artists who worked on a military theme.

At the exhibition, you can see the works of I. Evstigneev of various genres starting from battle scenes and field sketches of soldiers, as well as soulful lyrical landscapes after the war, portraits of your loved ones, still lifes and sketches of rural life.

The exhibition runs from May 6 to May 31, at the address: st. Lenin, 103.0+