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LAZHECHNIKOV ALEXANDER IVANOVICH<\/strong>
\n20 April\/2 May 1870 (Moscow) \u2013 18 October 1944 (Petrovgrad, now Zrenjanin)
\nPainter
\nHe comes from a noble family. Great-nephew of the writer Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov (grandson of his brother Nikolai).
\nHe graduated from Moscow Real School (ru. \u0440\u0435\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0443\u0447\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0449\u0435, type of secondary school in Germany, Russian Empire, Serbia and other countries across Europe) K. K. Mazing.
\nFrom 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).
\nHe lived in Peterburg. He worked mainly as a landscape artist, but he also painted still life, portraits and types of interiors.
\nIn 1905 he organised Art development classes in Peterburg with actor V. R. Gordin, where painting, sculpture, psychology and expressive speech were taught.
\nFrom 1900 to 1910 he published postcards with paintings of Russian artists, mainly the members of Peredvizhniki, with A. V. Makovsky.
\nThe portrait of Lazhechnikov by A. V. Makovsky is kept in Taganrog gallery.
\nHe 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).
\nAfter visiting the\u00a0Exposition Universelle<\/i>\u00a0in Paris (1908) the artist was strongly influenced by impressionism, which later shaped his painting style.
\nIn 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.
\nHe 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).
\nHe 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).
\nHis 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAZHECHNIKOV ALEXANDER IVANOVICH (1870-1944)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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STILL LIFE<\/strong>
\nSigned lower right: \u0410.\u041b\u0430\u0436\u0435\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432
\nOil on canvas
\n60 x 50 cm<\/p>\n

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