GUZHAVIN Mikhail Markelovich

November 29, 1888 (Guzhavino, Vitebsk province) — January 12, 1931 (Leningrad)

Painter, graphic artist

There is very little information about biography of the artist. Guzhavin studied at the Higher Art Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the Imperial Academy of Arts (IAKh, 1911–1917) in the landscape painting class, under the guidance of N. N. Dubovsky. In 1917 he graduated from the Institute with the title of an artist for the painting Silent night and the right for pensioner’s trip abroad (he did not avail himself of this opportunity). Guzhavin was awarded S. I. and I. I. Endogurovs Premium as worthy landscape painter, and A. I. Kuindzhi Premium.

Mikhail Guzhavin lived in St. Petersburg (Petrograd — Leningrad). He worked as a landscape painter, continued lyric landscape traditions in his work. He was influenced by I. I. Levitan. Since 1911 Guzhavin took part in exhibitions. His works were exposed in the Spring exhibitions in halls of the Imperial Academy of Arts (IAKh; since 1911, with intervals), the exhibitions of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (TPKhV), the society Obshchina Khudozhnikov (“Artist Community”; 1917, 1925) and the exhibitions of the A. I. Kuindzhi Society of Artists (1918, 1926–1930).

Works by Mikhail Guzhavin are in many museum collections, including the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, a lot of regional museums, and in private collections.