KUCHUMOV, Vasili Nikitovich

1888-1959

Historical painter, landscape painter, theater artist

he Studied at the Higher art school at St. Petersburg Academy of arts (1910-1916). In 1911 was awarded the second prize of the Academy of arts for the academic sketch "Salome bringing the head of John the Baptist."

Participant of annual exhibitions "the society of the independent" (1911-1914) in Petrograd, the exhibition art-психологической group "Triangle" (1908, St. Petersburg), exhibition of Petrograd artists (1917, Moscow), first exhibition of paintings "Community of artists" (1917, Leningrad), exhibitions of the Society of. А. И. Куинджи (1918-1929), 47-й traveling exhibition of paintings (1922, Moscow), exhibition of pictures of Petrograd artists of all directions. 1919—1923 (1923, Leningrad), AHRR VI exhibition "Revolution, life and work" (1924, Moscow), the VIII exhibition of AHRR "the Life of the peoples of the USSR" (1926, Moscow), jubilee exhibition of fine arts (1927, Leningrad), art exhibition "15 YEARS the red army" (1933, Moscow), the exhibition "Leningrad in the images of contemporary artists" (1934, Leningrad), the exhibition of works by Leningrad artists on the theme of the great Patriotic war (1942, Leningrad), all-Union art exhibition "Heroic front and rear" (1943, Moscow), all-Union art exhibition of 1947 (1947, Moscow), autumn exhibition of works by Leningrad artists (1956, Leningrad) and other Federal and Republican exhibitions.

Consisted in society "the Shop".

Famous painting "Peter the great visits the statue of Venus in the Summer Palace" (thesis, 1916, HMM Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). Influenced by the masters "World of art" and stuck to their concept of history.

the Works are kept in State Russian Museum and other collections.