Antonov Sergey

13 (25) August 1884 (Riga) - June 11, 1956 (Riga)

architect, stage designer, painter, graphic artist, teacher.

Drawing fascinated since childhood. First, he studied under the landscape painter Professor Yu Yu clover. In 1909 he graduated from Riga Polytechnic Institute, where he received an engineer-architect. In the same year he moved to St. Petersburg, where he remained until 1914 when IAH. May 28 (10 June) 1914 was awarded the title of artist-architect for the design of the building of the State Council.

for success in school has been awarded a two-year pensionerstva in Europe. He visited Italy, France, Germany, carried out there's plenty of urban landscapes.

In 1915 he was invited to teach composition and pattern in art and industrial schools them. NF Van der Fleet in Pskov. Adopting the proposal, he lived and worked in Pskov to 1920.

In 1920, Antonov returned to Latvia. He taught at the University of Latvia, which in 1921 was an assistant professor E. Laube in the architectural studio.

He was a member of the Latvian Society of Architects, worked on reconstruction projects of old Riga. In scientific work dealt with the problem of the forms of public housing in modern construction.

Many prominent public buildings erected in Riga project Antonova: cinemas, hotels, printing and others. In 1926 he built the house of the newspaper "Today" in Riga, in 1930 - the restaurant "Lido" in Dzintari, cinema Gaysma "on Tallinas, 1935 - Latvian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Brussels, for which he was awarded two gold medals and the Order of Leopold II.

From 1926 to 1931 was primarily a decorator Russian Drama Theater in Riga. He has designed many productions and also in the Latvian theater.

In the painting the artist attracted mainly the urban landscape: he wrote the Old Riga, adding forms and construct the plot kind of decoration, masterfully mastered the specifics of the architectural drawing. Often wrote Jurmala.

Style Antonova - a characteristic, very recognizable and memorable. Often, the artist did not sign their work.

last architectural work of Antonova was in 1954, hotel "Riga". The entire writing team was awarded, but the Antonov - head of the project be abandoned, because contrary to his plan to put the hotel cornucopia than, in his opinion, disfigured project. Disturbances associated with construction of the hotel "Riga", led to the fact that Antonov seriously ill, suffered a stroke and died soon afterwards.

Antonov posthumous exhibition in 1956 in Riga, which included more than 600 works, was organized AF Eglit, director of the Riga Museum of Art, a former pupil of Pskov Antonov Art and Industry School .

to the 90 th anniversary of Antonov State Art Museum of Latvia held another of his great exhibition.

In 1998 Riga antique shop Volmar exhibited work Antonov among four other Russian artists of the early twentieth century . then works Antonov appeared in the office of the firm "Teykas us».

of paintings and drawings by the artist are kept in the Russian Museum, many museums in Riga, in particular at the Art Museum, the Architecture Museum, the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, in museums in Tallinn, Moscow, Jurmala, in Pskov museum - Reserve, as well as in many private collections in Latvia and America.