WEBER Yakov

1870 (s Naked Karamysh Saratov province) - after 1941 (some sources - 1958)

Painter, graphic artist

from a large family. In 1897 he moved to Saratov in order to get arts education, joined a copyist in the Saratov Art Museum. Radishshev. Advice of V. Konovalov, and VE Borisov-Musatov. In late 1890 - early 1900's worked in the studio Korovin in Moscow, for a short time he lived in Paris. He continued his education in the Penza Art College from KA Savitsky, in 1903-1909 worked at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at IAH in the workshops AA Kiseleva, then - I. Repin. In 1909, for the painting "Twilight on the Volga" was awarded an artist.

lived in St. Petersburg - Petrograd, since 1915 - in the village Scherbakovka (Mühlberg) Saratov province. He painted landscapes, many worked in watercolor technique, still in his art traditions of Russian landscape school. While still a student IAH systematically went to sketches on the Volga. The artist's paintings reproduced in the St. Petersburg magazine "Niva", "Lukomorye" and others. From 1903 - participant of exhibitions, exhibited their work at academic fairs, exhibitions Society of Russian watercolors.

In the 1920 - 1930 taught art in elementary school, in Engel's house folk, led the Republican (ASSR Volga Germans), art studio. Among students - R. Berg, R. Ehrlich, B. Milovidov, EA Zhuravlev, and others. For his artistic and pedagogical work was awarded the title of Honored Artist ASSR NP (1933). In Soviet times, along with landscapes executed a number of paintings on the living and historical-revolutionary plots, corresponding to the method of socialist realism.

in 1937 was arrested and deported to Kazakhstan, in 1956 and rehabilitated.
  Retrospective exhibitions of the artist's place in Saratov (1995, timed to 100 anniversary of the birth of J. Weber) and Engels (2002).

Creative painter represented in several museum collections, particularly in Engel's regional museum.