VASILIEV Fyodor

February 10, 1850 (Gatchina, St. Petersburg Province) - September 24, 1873 (Yalta)

painter and graphic artist.

was born in the family of a petty official, at the age of fifteen years, was orphaned. For the sake of earning moonlighting at the post office. In 1863-1867 attended the evening classes Drawing School Society for the Promotion of Artists (OPKh), where he taught AI Korzukhin, AI Morozov, Kramskoy, A. G. Gorawski. From 1865 for some time was assistant restorer PK Sokolova at IAH. In 1867, under the leadership of Ivan Shishkin worked on the island of Valaam. Then he began to take part in exhibitions OPKh in 1868 for his film "Return of the herd" won first prize for landscape in the competition of the Society.

lived in St. Petersburg. Summer months of 1868 spent in a village near the Red Konstantinovka Selo near St. Petersburg. In the summer of 1869 went to the estate of Znamenskoye-Karja near Tambov, in the autumn of that year - in the estate of Count PS Stroganov wanting in the Kharkov province. The summer of 1870, along with Ilya Repin and EK Makarov traveled along the Volga, where he completed many sketches.

In early 1871 enrolled as a volunteer at IAH, but did not attend classes. In early spring, presented to the competition OPKh painting "Thaw", which again was awarded the first prize. At the same time the artist began to develop tuberculosis. In May 1871 amendments to the health went to the desire. In May 1872 received the title of class artist 1-th degree with the prerequisite exams in sciences. In the same year exhibited his work at the exhibition of Moscow Society of Art Lovers. In 1872, presented at the next contest OPKh now "wet meadow". Second Prize Award, she became the subject of the struggle collectors - the Grand Duke Nicholas and Pavel Tretyakov, who eventually became a buyer of the work.

in January 1873 in connection with the inability of illness to qualify for the final approval of the rank of the class artist, received from IAH honorary free associate of the Academy. Was in correspondence with INKramskoy. Last years of his life (1871-1873) spent in the Crimea.

In 1874, in St. Petersburg held a memorial exhibition Vasilieva, all of which were purchased before the opening to the public. A retrospective exhibition of paintings was held in 1975 in Leningrad (the State Russian Museum), Moscow (State Tretyakov Gallery) and Kiev.

Fyodor Vasiliev - an outstanding Russian artist, a brilliant master of lyrical landscape. Favorite motifs of his paintings became "frontier" state of nature: before the storm and after the rain, sunrises, sunsets. They are filled with a mood of anxiety, sadness or a mild contemplation. Such work "After the Storm", "Before the Storm" (both - 1868), "After the Rain," "Evening," "Early Morning" (all - 1869), "Before the Rain" (1870), "Sunset on the pond "," Volga Lagoon "," After the Rain. Country Road "(all - the beginning of 1870)," Wet Meadow "(1872). Less common types of city: "Dawn in St Petersburg", "Illumination in St. Petersburg" (both - 1869) and sunny, peaceful landscapes, imbued with a harmonious world-view and equilibrium: "Type in Pargolovo" (1868), "Summer is hot day", " Village "(both - 1869). The schedule Vasilyeva most expressive drawings sepia.

creative legacy Vasilieva, despite the extremely short artistic activity, is large enough: it is several tens of pictures, hundreds of sketches and drawings. The first works date from the year 1863.

His works are in many museum and private collections, among them the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, Research Museum of Russia Academy of Arts, Saratov State Art Museum. Radishshev and others.