LAZHECHNIKOV ALEXANDER IVANOVICH

THE VIEW OF THE ORTHODOX AND EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN TITEL TOWN FROM TISA RIVER (SERBIA)

LAZHECHNIKOV ALEXANDER IVANOVICH (1870-1944)

 

THE VIEW OF THE ORTHODOX AND EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN TITEL TOWN FROM TISA RIVER (SERBIA)

The painting was most likely created in 1927. See the painting Landscape (on the banks of the Danube river in Serbia), 1927. Both paintings were a part of the same collection.

Signed lower right in Cyrillic: А.Лажечников

Oil on canvas

60 x 76 cm

 

EXHIBITED:

  • „The Brilliance of Russian Painters“ from the collection of Vladimir Peshich, City Museum Vrsac, January 22 – March 13, 2022.
  • Exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Russian House in Belgrade, The Russian House in Belgrade, April 6 – May 31 2023.

 

LITERATURE:

  • Exhibition catalogue „The Brilliance of Russian Painters“ from the collection of Vladimir Peshich, City Museum Vrsac, January 22 – March 13, 2022. Publisher: Vladimir Peshich, Belgrade, 2022. Reproduced on page 32.
  • Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Russian House in Belgrade, The Russian House in Belgrade, April 6 – May 31 2023.

 

CONDITION REPORT:
The painting is in perfect condition.

 

Price on request.

 

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LAZHECHNIKOV ALEXANDER IVANOVICH
20 April/2 May 1870 (Moscow) – 18 October 1944 (Petrovgrad, now Zrenjanin)
Painter
He comes from a noble family. Great-nephew of the writer Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov (grandson of his brother Nikolai).
He graduated from Moscow Real School (ru. реальное училище, type of secondary school in Germany, Russian Empire, Serbia and other countries across Europe) K. K. Mazing.
From 1897 to 1901 he studied at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture which was a part of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He studied at the art studio of A. A. Kiselev. In 1901 he received the title of the artist for the paintings At the River Khmara and Silent Night. At the same time he attended Pedagogical Courses at the Imperial Academy of Arts as well as courses at the Archaeological Institute (1901).
He lived in Peterburg. He worked mainly as a landscape artist, but he also painted still life, portraits and types of interiors.
In 1905 he organised Art development classes in Peterburg with actor V. R. Gordin, where painting, sculpture, psychology and expressive speech were taught.
From 1900 to 1910 he published postcards with paintings of Russian artists, mainly the members of Peredvizhniki, with A. V. Makovsky.
The portrait of Lazhechnikov by A. V. Makovsky is kept in Taganrog gallery.
He exhibited his works at the Spring exhibitions of Imperial Academy of Arts, Peredvizhniki (1900-1903) and St. Petersburg Art Society. He was a member of the Art Society Myussarovskie Ponedelniki; he held a personal exhibition at the Society halls (Angliskaya naberezhnaya 6) (1915).
After visiting the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1908) the artist was strongly influenced by impressionism, which later shaped his painting style.
In 1920 he emigrated to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia), he settled in Veliki Bechkerek (from 1935 Petrovgrad). In 1921 he painted the picture the Brotherhood of Yugoslavia for the Serbian Cooperative Bank.
He held five personal exhibitions where he showed landscapes of the Adriatic, Macedonia, Slovenia, Banat, portraits, miniatures. Hs works first appeared in 1926 at the exhibition of Yugoslav Club of Journalists (120 paintings with motives of Banat and Adriatic coast).
He took part at exhibitions of Russian artists: sale-exhibition in Sombor (1921), in Belgrade at the University (1924), the Association of Russian Artists in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1928), the Great Exhibition of Russian Art (1930), Russian Art Society (1933).
His paintings are kept at Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the Estate of Lazhenchikov Merchants Museum in Kolomna, the Tagnarog Art Museum, the Penza Picture Gallery and others.

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