Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov (russian: Все́волод Андре́евич Баже́нов; February 18, 1909 – August 2, 1986) was a

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painter who lived and worked in

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. He was a member of the ''

Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...

'', and regarded as a known representative of the ''

Leningrad school of painting The Leningrad School of Painting (russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was uni ...

'', most known for his landscape paintings.

Biography

Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov was born on February 18, 1909 in the town

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, in the

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of the

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into an artistic family. His father was an artist and taught in a real school. He became the first teacher of Vsevolod. Later he studied in Serdobsk art studio of artists ''A. Gofert'' and ''N. Kuzmin''. Besides drawing and painting, Bazhenov was a music lover. His mother Evgenia Nikovaevna was a pianist. Bazhenov graduated high school in 1928 and moved to Leningrad. Between the years of 1928-1930 he studied at the

Tavricheskaya Art School Tavricheskaya Art School (russian: Таври́ческое худо́жественно-педагоги́ческое учи́лище) is a secondary art school in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). From 1919 to 1961, it was located in a building at ...

, where he was a student of

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, David Kiplyck, and Vladimir Fedorovich. In 1930 Bazhenov left the third-year college courses and arrived at the surveyors. According to some sources, the reason for his leaving was a difficult financial situation or the reorganization of the department of painting. After leaving the course, Bazhenov worked in exploration, first as a surveyor, then as a superintendent and chief of field parties. During expeditions, he painted many sketches of life in the Ural Region, Armenia, Khibiny, Karelia, the Caucasus and

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. From 1934 to 1941, Bazhenov worked at the Leningrad mapping factory. In 1940 he married Catherine Andreyevna Kuznetsova. His eldest son Alexander was born June 24, 1941, and later became a filmmaker. After the beginning of the

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, Bazhenov and his family were sent to Sverdlovsk city for specialty. In December 1942 he was drafted into the

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with the rank of lieutenant-technique as a senior cartographer. Bazhenov was discharged at the end of 1945, and awarded the

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. In late 1945 Bazhenov returned to Leningrad. From the autumn of 1946 he worked as painter for hire in LenIzo. In 1946, his middle son Vladimir was born, followed in 1952 by his youngest Andrew. Bazhenov is first referred to in art exhibitions dating from 1937. After 1951, he was constantly involved in Leningrad, Republican, and All-Union exhibitions of soviet artists, including the All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 in Moscow, devoted to the 40th Anniversary of the October Revolution. His plaintings included landscapes,

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, seascapes, still lifes, works in oil and tempera paintings. In the 1950s, Bazhenov made some long trips around the country to gather materials for paintings, including East and West Siberia, Altai Province and the Ural Region. As a result of these trips, Bazhenov was considered a leading master of nature studies in Leningrad. In 1951, Bazhenov was admitted to the

Leningrad Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...

. Among his works of the 1950s and early 1960s ''"Fishermen"'' (1949), ''"Arable land"'' (1950), ''"Mstinskoe reservoir"'', ''"Early Spring"'' (both 1951), ''"Spring Evening"'' (1953), ''"Altai-Chemal"'', ''"Winter Morning"'', ''"Before the Storm"'', ''"The Sun hid behind the mountain"'' (all 1956), ''"Blue Altai"'', ''"Industrial Lights"'', ''"Ploughing virgin land in the mountains"'' (both 1957), ''"On the bank of Selenga"'', ''"On the Barguzin River"'', ''"Baykal Lake. The Gull's Island"'' (all 1958), ''"Neva Industrial"'' (1959), ''"Near Leningrad"'', ''"Twilight"'', ''"The launching of the tanker Beijing"'' (1960), ''"Sunrise"'', ''"Lights of Angara River"'', "Siberian route" (all 1961), ''"Leningrad port"'', ''"Volkhov River"'', ''"Old Ladoga"'' (all 1964), ''"Winter Sketch"'', ''"Spring in the Forest"'' (both 1965), and others. In 1962 Bazhenov embarked on a working voyage aboard the ship ''"Eugene Nikishin"'', sailing from Leningrad to Vladivostok and around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of

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, Singapore and

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. During the course of the voyage, which took him through eleven seas and oceans, and lasted more than three months, Bazhenov created nearly two hundred sketches, paintings and drawings. His nature sketches and direct impressions of the voyage led to larger works, finished later in his Leningrad art studio. After his return in 1963, about 120 works from this series of sketches and paintings were first exhibited in Leningrad, and following that, in other cities. Among them are the works ''"Arabian Coast"'', ''"Boats at the Sea"'', ''"In the Singapore Strait"'', ''"Denmark on the horizon"'', ''"In the Ha Long Bay"'', ''"Dolphins play"'', ''"Suez Canal"'', and others. During the 1960s and 1970s, Bazhenov worked with a group of Leningrad artists, and painted pictures for the mess rooms of ocean-going ships and submarines. He create about 100 paintings for ships of various purposes, mostly landscapes of his country. Most of these works were installed on the warships of the Pacific and Northern fleets. He also took part in the creation of special technologies for protecting pictures from the high humidity of a long-time voyage. In 1976, the artist was awarded the commendation of the Navy of the USSR for this job. Since the mid-1960s for twenty years Bazhenov was the head of a creative group of artists in the House of creativity «Staraya Ladoga» in

Staraya Ladoga Staraya Ladoga (russian: Ста́рая Ла́дога, p=ˈstarəjə ˈladəɡə, lit=Old Ladoga), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near ...

. Here he painted many sketches and paintings, among them ''"Winter Sketch"'', ''"March in the House of Creativity"'', ''"Spring Sketch"'' (all 1967), ''"By the spring"'' (1969), ''"Spring is on the way"'' (1974), ''"The House of Artistic Creativity Staraya Ladoga"'', ''"Last Snow"'' (both 1977), ''"A March"'' (1980), ''"In spring at the Volkhov River"'' (1981), and others. Bazhenov visited Karelia for the first time in 1931. Of the artist's creative journeys, it has been said that Karelia was one of his most special locations. In 1981 he first visited Valaam island, at the invitation of the local museum. From then until death Valaam was one of the main themes of his work. In 1984 the Valaam museum held a solo exhibition of paintings by Vsevolod Bazhenov. In its archives are kept many paintings based on impressions from visiting the island. Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov died on August 2, 1986 in Leningrad aged seventy-eight. He is remembered mostly for his landscapes, seascapes, and small-format nature studies. His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1963, 1982), and Saint Petersburg (1994, 2009). His paintings reside in the Russian State Museum, in art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, France, England, in the U.S., China, and throughout the world''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.6–7.

References

Principal exhibitions

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...

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): ''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1950'' *

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

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): ''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951'' *

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

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): ''The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956'' *

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

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): ''1917 - 1957. Leningrad Artist's works of Art Exhibition'' *

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): '' All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution'' *

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

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): ''The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1958'' *

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

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): ''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960'' *

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): ''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960'' *

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

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): ''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961'' *

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

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): ''The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962'' *

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

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): ''The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition'' *

1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...

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): ''Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1965'' *

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

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): ''A Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1968'' *

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

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): ''Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975'' *

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

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): ''Art belongs to the people. Anniversary Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Great October Revolution of 1917'' *

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

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): ''The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1978'' *

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

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): ''Regional Art exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1980'' * 1994 (

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

): ''Paintings of 1950-1980s by the Leningrad School artists'' * 1994 (

): ''Etude in creativity of the Leningrad School's artists'' * 1995 (

): ''Lyrical motifs in postwar Leningrad painting'' * 2013 (

): ''Paintings of 1940-1980 by the Artists of the Leningrad School'', in ''ARKA Gallery''

Sources

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