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Entries / Rudakov K.I., (1891-1949), Artist

Rudakov K.I., (1891-1949), Artist


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RUDAKOV Konstantin Ivanovich (1891 St. Petersburg - 1949) graphic artist, water colour painter. He was trained at the Academy of Arts from 1913 to 1922 under D. N. Kardovsky; taught there from 1930. In the 1920s, he contributed to the journals Begemot, Smekhach and Krokodil. He executed colour lithographs and water-colours for literary works: My Dear Friend by Guy de Maupassant (1935-37), Nana by E. Zola (1937), Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1937), The Inspector General by N. V. Gogol (1947), Manon Leskaut by A. F. Prevost (1948), Anna Karenina (1942-45) and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1941-48), Evgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1940s). He executed a series of easel works: the New Economic Policy (1932), West (1932-34), and Naked Sitters (the 1930s); he painted women’s and children's portraits, created sketches for clothes for performances of Leningrad theatres (1940-43). He connected the traditions of Petersburg graphic school with impressionistic sight in his creative works. In 1924-33, he lived at 20 Lenina Street, from 1934 - at 50 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street. He was buried in Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Константин Иванович Рудаков: Воспоминания о художнике. Л., 1979; Бродский И. А. Константин Рудаков. М., 1985.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin.

Persons
Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus
Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich
Maupassant Guy de
Prevost d'Exiles, Antoine-Francois
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Rudakov Konstantin Ivanovich
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Zola Emile

Addresses
Bolshaya Pushkarskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 50
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20

Bibliographies
Константин Иванович Рудаков: Воспоминания о художнике. Л., 1979
Бродский И. А. Константин Рудаков. М., 1985

The subject Index
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis