The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val is showing works by Konstantin Klavdianovicha Zefirov the 130th anniversary of the artist

TG on the Crimean Val, 20 July -16 October

Tretyakov Gallery continues to open wide audience work of little-known, but distinctive, with its own artistic hand, masters of the twentieth century, without which the painting art of the last century is incomplete.

CONSTANTINE ZEPHYR Self-portrait in a hat. 1922 Source: < a href = "http://tretyakovgallery.ru" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow"> tretyakovgallery.ru

Exhibition Klavdianovicha Zefirov (1879 -1960), painter, graphic arts, teacher, founding member of society, "Makovec," was conceived by the 130th anniversary of the artist's birth. In his youth he was active in student revolutionary movement, and later tried to escape from the pressures of political and social reality in the "interior" of emigration - in his work. He focused on the creation of chamber landscapes, portraits of home interiors, still lifes, that the criticism in this country called the "silent" art.

The Tretyakov Gallery has a large collection - 60 paintings and more than 100 drawings - KK Zefirov, which evolved from the 1920s. The exhibition works from the store supplemented Gallery exhibits from collections of the Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin, the artist's family and private collections - only about 80 exhibits. The display includes works 1910 - 1930 - the most interesting and bright period in the work of K. Zefirov, search time and the formation of individual plastic language, the imagery of his work .

Childhood KK Zefirov evolved dramatically. He was the son of a priest, but at the age of four, one year after the death of his father, was left to the care of relatives, and later - in Samara Theological Seminary. In high school, KK Zefirov had the opportunity to attend school artist K. Voronov, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, which has managed to instill in the youth self-confidence. Talking about his trips to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, on museums, on overseas life of Russian artists, he opened KK Zefirov new horizons, and awakened a love of art and knowledge of the world.

CONSTANTINE ZEPHYR Crow River Source: tretyakovgallery. ru

CONSTANTINE ZEPHYR Music by Mendelssohn Source: tretyakovgallery.ru

In the years of training at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute KK Zefirov became interested in the student movement. However, the desire to become an artist led him to a private school, EE Schrader (1902-1905), where he studied with with GS Verey and KI Istomin . In 1906, disappearing from political persecution, K. Zefirov was forced to leave Russia. He settled in Munich, where he was an atmosphere of general enthusiasm in art. People come from all over Europe, the artists have participated in international art exhibitions, expositions of Secession, enhance their well-known in private studios in Munich. apprenticeship in the studio Sh Holloshi where KK Zefirov worked with VA Favorsky , GS Verey. KN Istomin, join it to the German tradition of painting, which he has consistently developed and home, where at the beginning of last century was dominated by the French passion for art. Zefirov KK noted that the teacher is obliged to acquaintance with a linear pattern, the bulk form. School for KK Zefirov steel and visit the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where he studied the work of the old European masters, as well as exhibitions - retrospectives Van Gogh, Cezanne, Daumier, Manet, Monet, Constable, Turner.

Back in 1909, Russia, K. Zefirov visited the studio of K. Keesha in Moscow. At this time, he found a friend and kindred spirit - an artist AV Fonvizin , which met in Munich. in 1914-1915 they settled in the city of Yaroslavl province Mologa to delve into the work with nature: "We knew that ... we must look to the fields, the sun, it is necessary to see the living reality, to contemplate the great life of nature the beauty of the surrounding "(K. Zefirov). To this period belong the earliest of the exhibited paintings and graphic scenes. Simultaneously, the artists relied on the old masters. The exhibition is showing still life (" Copper mortar. "1910 Kh., m, "Pan" .1910-e. H. m. Both - TG) and portraits ("Portrait of AV Fonvizin", "Portrait of Alexander's brother." Both - 1910 Kh. , m. TG), lapidary, with an expressive three-dimensional modeling, written in a restrained color palette. Works by this time had become noted for constant K. Zefirov sincere perception of concentrated admiration object images, vibrant, conveying inner agitation stroke, the chamber sound. < /p>

During these years a kind of "Russian Barbizon" was for KK Zefirov Karandeevka village in the province of Tambov, where he returned annually for many years. The exhibition includes paintings created there from Meeting Gallery - "Red Roof" and "Crow River" (both - 1920) and numerous drawings etyudnogo character.

key stage in the artist became involved in the activity of "Makovec" (1922-1926) - the union of artists and poets, who sought the spiritual fullness of art. The basis of art they considered religious experiences. Zefirov KK with his serious, profound attitude to art was important that the circle of associates. Members of the public shared a close and K. K. Zefirov understanding of home as the foundation of life and culture. One of the most dramatic works of this time - included in the exhibition Still Life "icon and the skull" (1922. Canvas, oil Private Collection). In this period of spiritual searching, KK Zefirov paid much attention to self-portrait. The exhibition shows a series of paintings of self-portraits from the collection of galleries and private collections, where similar compositional variations in production with the help of plastic means transmit range of conditions. restrained expressionism, which is characteristic for the entire creative K. Zefirov, particularly manifested in the self-portrait and portrait, reflecting the tension of the model. Portraits of KK Zefirov acquaint viewers with his "inner circle" - family, friends, loved ones ("Boris". 1918. Canvas, oil, "Portrait of EN Bogomolova." 1920. Canvas, oil-both private collection, "Portrait of his wife and son." 1934. Canvas, oil TG). Focusing on the artist's "quiet life" of human subjects and is embodied in the genre of Interior ("Arkhangelsk . Interior. "1923. H., M. Pushkin," The Village interior with mats. "Kon.1910's - nach.1920's. Canvas, oil TG," The music of Mendelssohn. "1935. H, m . THG).

Like most colleagues, contemporaries, and KK performed Zefirov and official orders (for example, designed the streets and buildings in Tambov for the first anniversary of the revolution), he organized a school at the local Proletkult, served in the Department of Political Education Departments of the Red Army. After the collapse of the "Makovtsa" entered the Society of Moscow Artists, Association of Artists of the Revolution, was one of the founders of the Moscow Union of Artists. Over the years, KK Zefirov taught in art schools and studios in Moscow. But invariably central to his work remained in his studio, where his works, he affirmed the value of "quiet" private life.

The exhibition is an illustrated edition, which includes an autobiography of the artist, articles of his friends and the curator of the exhibition, archival photographs, a chronology of life and creativity.

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