RAUBE-GORCHILINA Maria V.

1900 (Moscow) - 1979 (Moscow)

Painter.

born in the family of the scientist-forester, Lithuanian nobleman who served in the royal inheritance in Simbirsk and Vladimir provinces. Her mother was a Pole, from the kind Svyantorzhetskih who settled in Orel estate. The childhood she spent in the central Russian villages Tarkhany and Nikologory.

In eight years, Mary was sent to boarding Countess Ledohovskoy in Finland. Up to fifteen years in Russia, she came just for the holidays for parents. In 1915 she was transferred to Moscow's French board of St. Peter and St. Paul. From 1917 to 1923 Raube studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZhViZ later VHUTEMAS). Her teachers were SV Malyutin, V. Yakovlev, B. D. Falileev.

student she met with the sculptor Gorchilinym subsequently Gostehnikuma director of cinematography, and in 1920 married him. To a large extent by switching to family life, Raube exhibited very little, but the painting never left.

until 1928 he painted the house, and with this year's draw of the exhibition and textiles. In 1930, painted cloth in the shop "Vsekohudozhnik. In 1935, created the scenery and costumes for the film studio "Detfilm" (for example, in motion pictures "The loss of sensation" and "Aladdin's Lamp"). At the same time, designed the theater (the play "nonsense" and "completely happy" in the theater AUCCTU). In 1939 Raube invited to work on VDNH expert on folklore ornaments. In May 1941 the artist settled in the service in the City Committee illustrators.

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Raube engaged camouflage military facilities, for which he received the Medal "For defense of Moscow". After the war, continued to draw on VDNH stained glass windows, and from 1947 worked as a costume designer for the film studio Mosfilm ».

In 1950 worked with an experienced glass factory at Institute of Glass, designed the facility. The sketch glass doors store GUM (of carved glass) ceiling of the banquet hall of restaurant "Prague" and carved interior glass in mansions on the Sparrow Hills.

Since 1955 the artist became involved in watercolors later - monotype, techniques picturesque impressions on paper. She held a kind of flat interior for posleottepelnyh avant-garde.

From the late years of creativity Raube left dozens of drawings marker.

features artistic manner Raube-Gorchilinoy back to the art of Z. Serebryakova. She wrote mainly in the genres of still life and landscape. The mood of the picture and send her emotional system achieved exactly the color that the artist must do something for a juicy and fresh, something light and airy. Her work has featured vigorous brushstroke, relaxed texture and abstract vision.

In recent years Raube often drew portraits. Making cursory sketches on the way home, in the train, she then processes them in monotype technique, trying to make each individual image, psychological traits.

Early works Raube-Gorchilinoy in Russia almost did not survive. Curious of her paintings for the 1930's moved abroad, to France and America, because the family feared that the Soviet regime, they can be classified as "formalism».

Only in 2002 in Russia was promulgated artistic heritage Raube-Gorchilinoy.

now works the artist are in the State Russian Museum, State Library of Russia, the Pushkin Museum of Pushkin State Museum of the city of Nukus, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Museum of Modern Jerusalem ", as well as abroad, in private collections.