Andrei EGOROV Afanasievich

June 20 (2 June) 1878 (the village Arugula (Aratula) near Reval) — on 30 January 1954 (Tallinn)

Painter, graphic artist

a Descendant of Tver the peasants, moved by Peter I in the vicinity of Reval. Initial artistic skills has received in St.-Петербурге in school of the deaf (1887-1896). He studied at the Drawing school society for the encouragement of the arts (1896-1897, 1899-1901) Я. Ф. Ционглинского in the Higher art school of painting, sculpture and architecture under the Imperial Academy of arts (1901-1909) as a volunteer at В. А. Савинского, Г. Р. Залемана, И. М. Творожникова with 1903 — in the Studio И. Е. Репина and Д. Н. Кардовского. In 1909 за painting "In the village" received the title of artist.

Lived in St. Petersburg. Traveled to Russia, travelled to Sweden and Finland. Was engaged in painting churches in Taganrog and Saratov. During the Civil war as a volunteer joined the army; worked as an artist of the political Department of the First Cavalry army (1919-1920).

From 1921 в Tallinn. Member of Union of Russian artists in Estonia (the beginning of 1920-х). In 1940, he received Soviet citizenship. During the great Patriotic war he was in evacuation in the Urals.

he Worked primarily as a landscape painter: "Summer" (1909), "Cold sun" (1912), "Winter" (1913, tempera), "Yard" (1914), "Over the river" (1914), "the Old revel" (1915), "Evening in the village" (1916), "Night" (1917), "the Eclipse of the sun" (1918), "Manor courtyard (farm-yard)" (1921), "city Hall in Kuresaare" (1925), "The alley" (1931), "purple cabbage" (1933), "Street in Narva" (1934), "Old Narva" (1934) and "Boat" (1941), "Street in the village of Uvelka" (1944), "a fishing harbour in Tallinn" (1945), "Lunar landscapes (moonlit night)" (1945), "Landscape in Vosu (Sheep)" (1948), "Spring" (1950), "Birch trees" (1952), "Winter landscape" (1952). The author of a number of portraits ("portrait of a man", 1907; "Houska girl", 1914; "Portrait of wife", 1915) and thematic pictures ("the Sad letter from the war", 1915; "Punishment", 1943; "Liberation of Tallinn by Soviet troops in 1944 году", 1945; "Loading", 1948; "the capture of the fascist", 1940-е; "people rally 21 июля 1940 года in Tallinn", 1950).

From 1903 — participant of exhibitions (exhibitions reporting higher art school at the Imperial Academy of arts, St-Петербург). Member (since 1911) and the Exhibitor (1917, 1918) of the society of artists. А. И. Куинджи; the Central society of Estonian artists (from 1922), the Union of Estonian artists ("Ars", from 1923), the management of the trust Fund of the fine arts (since 1928), the Estonian academic Association of artists (from 1935). Exhibited St.-Петербургского (Petrograd) society of artists (1910-1912, 1914), Association of artists (1911-1916), the society of Russian watercolors (1915, 1916, 1918), society of travelling art exhibitions (1916, 1918), Community of artists (1917-1918). Participated in exhibitions: in Spring in the halls of the Imperial Academy of arts (1908-1918), 1-й state free exhibition of works of art (1919) in St. Petersburg (Petrograd); traveling exhibitions of Russian artists in the Narva and Pechora (1933), Riga and Kaunas (1937); contemporary Estonian art (1935), all-Union art exhibitions (1946, 1947, 1950), works of artists of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian SSR (1954) in Moscow; art exhibitions (1938, 1940, 1951, 1952), "7 лет Soviet Estonia" (1947) in Tallinn. Participant of exhibitions of Russian artists in London (1913), Estonian artists in Riga (1926), Helsinki, Paris, Lubeck, Kiel (1930), Cologne, Copenhagen (1931), the Hague (1937). Held a personal exhibition in Tallinn (1948). The honored worker of arts of Estssr (1948).

a Memorial exhibition was held in Tallinn (1978, timed to 100-летию birthday).

the Work presented in the State Tretyakov gallery, the Estonian art Museum in Tallinn, the Tartu art Museum.

Sources:

1. the State Tretyakov gallery. The collection catalogue. Painting of the first half of the twentieth century. M., 2009, vol. 6, kN. 1. P. 131.
2. Lacking О. Л., Makhrov К. В., Severyukhin Д. Я. Художники the Russian Diaspora. 1917-1939. Biographical dictionary. St. Petersburg, 1999. S. 273.
3. Artists of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1976, vol. 3. P. 530-531.