Maximov Vasiliy Maksimovich

January 17, 1844 (d Lopina St. Petersburg Province) - November 18, 1911 (St. Petersburg)

Painter, graphic artist

son of state farmers. He was educated in a monastery in the Old Ladoga. Initial artistic skills acquired in the iconography workshops VM Poshehonova and KA Yarygina in St. Petersburg (1855-1862), also attended the drawing school at the Technological Institute. He studied at the IAH (1863-1866) in the class of historical painting by FA Bruni, TA Neff, A. Markov, P. M. ; Shamshina. He was awarded a small silver medals for the sketch from nature (1864) and drawing (1864), a large silver medal (1866), a small gold medal Vigee-Lebrun "for the expression" in the movie "The sick child (Village Stage)" (1864). Refusing to participate in the competition for a gold medal, went out of IAH class artist with a rank of 3rd degree. In the same year he settled in the village Shubino Tver province in the estate Golenishcheva-Kutuzova on the Rights of the home teacher. In 1870, for painting "fairy tale", "The dream of the future", "fees for a walk" and the sketch "old woman" was the title of class artist 1-st degree. In 1878, for painting "Arrival of the sorcerer of the peasant wedding", "Family Section" was awarded the title of academician.

lived in St. Petersburg, villages Chernavin Lyubshe and St. Petersburg province. Repeatedly traveled to Russia, visited the Urals (1871, together with Vasnetsov), Volga (1866, 1881-1896). While a student was a member of the artistic artel PA Krestonostseva in St. Petersburg (1864-1865). He worked as a genre painter, landscape painter, portraitist. He was engaged in wood-carving, etching, DA Rovinsky in the Details dictionary Russian engravers XVI - XIX centuries. (St. Petersburg, 1896) described nine genre etchings Maximov. In 1890 wrote a series of landscapes surrounding Michael's associated with the life of Alexander Pushkin.

From 1868 - participant of exhibitions (Society for the Promotion of artists). The exhibit at academic announcements (1870-1881, with interruptions), the World Exhibitions in Paris (1878, 1900), the All-Russia agricultural and industrial exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896). Member (since 1872) and exponential TPHV (1872-1911).

Maximov - one of the largest master-genre painter of the second half of XIX century. His works are distinguished narrative plot, the desire to poetizatsii characters, well thought-out compositional decisions, "acute" observation in the transmission of characters and thoroughness in the image of domestic parts (interior items, costumes and so on).

Maksimova works are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, art galleries and art museums, Vologda, Novgorod, Irkutsk, Voronezh, Barnaul, Kirov, Omsk, Perm, Ryazan , Taganrog, Sebastopol, Chelyabinsk, Odessa, Nikolaev, Lviv, Lugansk, Poltava, Minsk and others.