Today Gallery «Ark» opens exhibition of paintings and drawings by Leonid Alexandrovich Kazenin

This evening at the gallery «Ark» will open the exhibition from the cycle «unforgotten names», devoted to the creative legacy of artist Leonid Aleksandrovich Kazenin (1897-1965). Visitors can see paintings and graphic works created since the 1920's to 1960's.

Born in the city of Vyatka, Leonid Kazenin in 1905-1906 years was brought up in Vyatsko Primary School, and the next six years - in real Vyatsko Alexander School. His future career path of an artist began in 1912 within the walls of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers were , Alexei Alexei Stepanov , , Apollinary Vasnetsov .

In the 1914-m Kazenin was called into the army, on the fronts of World War I served as an ordinary-machine gunner, were seriously injured, which by January 1917, was released from military service. He resumed his studies, but due to illness in December of that year, was forced to go home, Vyatka.

In the years 1918-1919, Leonid Aleksandrovich worked as a teacher of painting and drawing in school, 2-nd stage and Vyatka popular studios in the next two years, taught painting and drawing in a beautiful office Vyatskiy Regional Arts and Industrial College in addition, he worked as a creative and engaged in urban exhibitions. Almost no early works Kazenin not survived; survived only unfinished canvas beginning of the 1920's «Roofs city», so water from the same motive. Full class fine arts Kazenin able to resume only in 1922-meters at the Department of monumental-fresco painting VHUTEMASa. His teachers were Vladimir Favorskiy , Nikolai Nikolai Chernyshev , Pavel Pavel Kuznetsov , Lev Bruni , Nikolai Dokuchaev. Also - acquaintance with him was on the test-preparatory department. The creative friendship of master and pupil has meant that over time Kazenin was not just a follower, having learned the lessons of PC, but also the keeper of his vast artistic legacy. After the death of Istomina Kazenin many years not only maintained, but also restored the work of its principal teacher. Systematizing istominskogo Heritage continued Marina L., daughter Kazenin. In 2008, the Gallery «Ark» The first exhibition from the cycle «Return Konstantin Istomin», based on the archive, which was retained in the house Kazenin.

Studying Leonid Kazenin ended in 1930, but even before he became a party to the first exhibition OMAHRR (Youth Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia). In the same 1930-m Kazenin became a member of the society «Four of art», and in 1932-m - a member of MOSSH. In 1930 Kazenin illustrated children's almanac for Detgiz, began to show works at exhibitions in Moscow. In 1935 the artist participated in the execution of the painting subway station «Komsomolskaia» by Vladimir Favorsky sketches. Before World War II, he also took part in the paintings, the Museum of the protection of maternity and infancy on Kropotkinskaya street models on Sretenka House, Central House of Pioneers and October, the House Narkomlesa Houses Moscow Arts Theater, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (for sketches Istomina he did sign in Pavilion «Volga»), the Kursk train station, the Central Theater of the Red Army, as well as several shops. His own monumental work - painted in the barracks of FE Dzerzhinsky, design house number 5 on the Big Kaluga street painting booths left and middle management at the gateway Yauze within the bounds of Moscow.

In October 1941, Kazenin and his family went to the evacuation of the Northern Urals, monumentalist and worked as a theater artist in Severouralsk, created the painting stations in Sverdlovsk, Kamyshlove, Nizhny Tagil, and at the Bogdanovich. After the war, returned to Moscow, took part in the restoration and paintings in the Pushkin Museum Pushkin, taught technology, materials and equipment painted monumental fresco-painting in the Stroganov School. Personal exhibition of works by Leonid Kazenin was held in Moscow in the late summer of 1958.

exhibition in gallery «Ark», you can visit until April 26, at: ul. Nemchinova, 12.

Source: kovcheg-art . ru