Vladimirov Ivan Alekseevich.

Artist of the realistic school of battle painters, author of a series of documentary sketches of the revolutionary events of 1917 and the everyday life of War Communism in 1918-1922.

The artist′s mother is the famous English watercolorist Elizabeth Wackhorn. The father is a priest. Thanks to his parents, he traveled a lot in England and Polesie as a child. Received art education at the Vilna drawing school of Ivan Trutnev. In 1891-1893 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he practiced with Bogdan Villevalde, Alexei Kivshenko and Franz Roubaud. Every year he spent the summer in the Caucasus in the mountain villages, bringing from there material for paintings that were awarded large and small silver medals: "The capture of the Turkish redoubt", "Dressing station during the Caucasian war." For the painting "Dressing Station during the Caucasian War" in 1893 he received the title of class artist of the second degree, which gave him the opportunity to start independent work. In 1897 he was awarded the title of class artist of the first degree for the painting "The Battle of the Adyghe on the Malka River". He was an art correspondent during the Russian-Japanese (1904-1905), Balkan (1912-1913) and First World Wars. Author of series of paintings dedicated to the Russian-Japanese war: "The weapon is in danger", "Artillery battle", "Returned from the war", "In Manchuria", "Reconnaissance in a downpour", "Interrogation of a prisoner", "Enhanced reconnaissance", revolutionary events 1905: "At the Winter Palace", "Battle in Presnya", "On the Barricades in 1905". During the First World War, he was engaged in sketches of military operations for the magazine "Niva". His drawings were published by the London Graphic - the world′s first art illustrated magazine, he collaborates with French Illustration and a number of American magazines. Vladimirov owns copies and sketches of the remains of the 10th-11th century murals of the Sentin Temple in the Teberda Gorge of Karachay-Cherkessia. Being an opponent of modernism in art, he offered his paintings for the exhibition of artists of the World of Art, but was rejected as an outdated realist. Then he painted several paintings on Finnish subjects in the manner of the world of art, and under a Finnish pseudonym he gave these paintings to the exhibition. Was accepted, was honored with flattering words from Alexander Benois, the paintings were sold. And only at the end of the exhibition, Vladimirov, in a letter to the newspaper, exposed the whole intrigue. The artist received a lot of sympathetic letters, even a postcard from Ilya Repin, who congratulated Vladimirov on the successful drawing of the modernists: “Dear Ivan Alekseevich! I hasten to greet you for your splendid joke on the cheeky daubs and pitiful pygmies who imagined themselves to be innovators of our native art. Your joke dealt a fatal blow to all decadents and other smears - enemies of realism in painting. " In the 1910s he lived with his wife and two daughters at his dacha on Morskaya Street. Now the territory of the former dacha of Vladimirov is part of the governor′s dacha of the village of Komarovo. He made a large cycle of documentary sketches of the events of 1917-1918 ("The Arrest of Tsarist Generals" (1918), "Petrograd. Spring 1918" (1918), etc. He was a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Since 1932, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. He painted pictures on historical-revolutionary and battle topics ("V. I. Lenin at a meeting" (1923), "The capture of Melitopol by the Budenovites" (1925), "The flight of the bourgeoisie from Novorossiysk" (1926), "Liquidation of the Wrangelsk front" (1932), " Barricades in Spain "(1936)," V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin in Spill in 1917 "(1937)," Foreigners in Leningrad "(1937)," Entry of Soviet troops into Vyborg "(1939), "The Surrender of the Finns" (1940)). Participated in the exhibitions "The Red Army in Soviet Art" (1930), "15 Years of the Red Army" (1933), at the World Exhibition in Paris (1937). During the Great Patriotic War, he was under siege. Leningrad, prepared posters, made sketches and sketches, painted pictures ("Fight for Tikhvin", 1943; "Fight on the streets of Berlin", 1946), kept a diary of the block dy. He died on December 14, 1947 in Leningrad at the age of 78.

Ivan Vladimirov′s works are kept in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, in museums and private collections.

Автопрортрет 1915года.

И.Владимиров.У сельсовета

И.Владимиров.Атака татарского полка

И.Владимиров.У колодца.

И.Владимиров.Разведка в ливень или Ночной дозор.1906г.

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