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Nikolai Antonovich Mukho Born December 6, 1913
Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian EmpireDied August 6, 1986
Leningrad, USSRNationality Russian Field Painting Training Repin Institute of Arts Movement Realism Nikolai Antonovich Mukho (Russian: Никола́й Анто́нович Мухо́; December 6, 1913, Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire - August 6, 1986, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most famous for his portrait painting.
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Biography
Nikolai Antonovich Mukho was born December 6, 1913, in Kronstadt, a Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, 30 kilometers west of Saint Petersburg near the head of the Gulf of Finland.
From 1934–1940, Nikolai Mukho studied at Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad. After graduation in 1940 Nikolai Mukho entered in the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
In August 1941 Nikolai Mukho was drafted into the Red Army. He was a veteran of World War II, participated in the defense of Leningrad. After being wounded and demobilization in late 1943, Nikolai Mukho returned to the institute. He studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Semion Abugov, Alexander Zaytsev, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Gleb Savinov.
In 1950 Nikolai Mukho graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Boris Ioganson personal workshop. His graduation work was genre painting named "The Leningrad Metro", dedicated to the builders of subway in Leningrad (first stations were opened in 1950).[2]
Since 1951 Nikolai Mukho has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, seascapes, landscapes, sketches from the life. In 1957 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists[3]. His solo exhibition was in Leningrad in 1989.
Leading place in the works of Nikolai Mukho occupied the theme of the sea and life of coastal cities. The artist worked in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Murmansk, Sevastopol, Kronstadt, on the Northern Dvina. The recognition received as a master of sketches painted from the life. The works of Nicholas Mukho distinguished decorative, bright saturated colors, and vigorous touch, playing a constructive role. Master of the plain-air paintings.
Nikolai Antonovich Mukho died on August 6, 1986 in Leningrad. His paintings reside in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, USA, Japan, and other countries.
See also
- Leningrad School of Painting
- List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
- List of the Russian Landscape painters
- Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
References
- ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 18, 27, 29, 156, 308, 365, 387, 388, 390, 391, 393-396, 398, 400, 403, 413-417, 419-422, 445.
- ^ Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p.63.
- ^ Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p. 82.
Gallery
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Murmansk fish seaport. 1962
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Construction of bridge over Neva river. 1959
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Ligovsky Prospekt. 1966
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Construction of embankment. 1964
Bibliography
- Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p. 82.
- Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 18, 27, 29, 156, 308, 365, 387, 388, 390, 391, 393-396, 398, 400, 403, 413-417, 419-422, 445. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
- Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p.63.
External links
- Nikolai Mukho on the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
- Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
- Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.
Painters of the Leningrad Union of Artists of 1932-1991 Piotr Alberti · Nathan Altman · Evgenia Antipova · Taisia Afonina · Vsevolod Bazhenov · Irina Baldina · Nikolai Baskakov · Yuri Belov · Piotr Belousov · Zlata Bizova · Olga Bogaevskaya · Veniamin Borisov · Isaak Brodsky · Piotr Buchkin · Vladimir Chekalov · Evgeny Chuprun · Irina Dobrekova · Alexei Eriomin · Pavel Filonov · Rudolf Frentz · Sergei Frolov · Nikolai Galakhov · Irina Getmanskaya · Vasily Golubev · Vladimir Gorb · Tatiana Gorb · Elena Gorokhova · Abram Grushko · Mikhail Kaneev · Yuri Khukhrov · Tatiana Kopnina · Maya Kopitseva · Boris Korneev · Alexander Koroviakov · Elena Kostenko · Gevork Kotiantz · Vladimir Krantz · Yaroslav Krestovsky · Mikhail Kozell · Engels Kozlov · Marina Kozlovskaya · Aleksandr Laktionov · Valeria Larina · Boris Lavrenko · Ivan Lavsky · Oleg Lomakin · Dmitry Maevsky · Kazimir Malevich · Gavriil Malish · Evsey Moiseenko · Valentina Monakhova · Alexei Mozhaev · Nikolai Mukho · Mikhail Natarevich · Alexander Naumov · Piotr Nazarov · Vera Nazina · Anatoli Nenartovich · Samuil Nevelshtein · Yuri Neprintsev · Dmitry Oboznenko · Lev Orekhov · Sergei Osipov · Victor Otiev · Vladimir Ovchinnikov · Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin · Nikolai Pozdneev · Evgeny Pozdnekov · Alexander Pushnin · Maria Rudnitskaya · Galina Rumiantseva · Kapitolina Rumiantseva · Lev Russov · Arcady Rylov · Ivan Savenko · Alexander Savinov · Gleb Savinov · Vladimir Sakson · Alexander Samokhvalov · Vladimir Seleznev · Arseny Semionov · Alexander Semionov · Yuri Shablikin · Boris Shamanov · Alexander Shmidt · Nadezhda Shteinmiller · Elena Skuin · Galina Smirnova · Alexander Sokolov · Alexander Stolbov · Alexander Tatarenko · German Tatarinov · Victor Teterin · Nikolai Timkov · Leonid Tkachenko · Mikhail Tkachev · Mikhail Trufanov · Vitaly Tulenev · Yuri Tulin · Boris Ugarov · Ivan Varichev · Anatoli Vasiliev · Piotr Vasiliev · Valery Vatenin · Nina Veselova · Igor Veselkin · Rostislav Vovkushevsky · Lazar Yazgur · Vecheslav Zagonek · Ruben Zakharian · Sergei Zakharov · Maria Zubreeva
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