Samokhvalov A.N., (1894-1971), artist

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SAMOKHVALOV Alexander Nikolaevich (1894-1971, Leningrad), painter, graphic artist, theatre artist, sculptor. Studied at the Architecture Department of the Academy of Arts (1914-18) under V.A. Belyaev and G.R. Zaleman, and at the Painting Faculty of the Academy of Arts (1919-23) under K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, D.N. Kardovsky, and A.A. Rylov. In the 1920-30s he produced paintings with the themes of labour and sport, creating a romantic image of contemporary times: Girl in a T-shirt (1932, the State Russian Museum), a series of watercolours titled Metrostroy Women (1934, the State Russian Museum), and the panel Soviet Physical Education for the USSR's pavilion at the International exhibition in Paris (1937, Grand Prix). He participated in the restoration of St. George's Cathedral in the Old Ladoga (1926), contributed illustrations for the book A Story of a Town by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin (1935), and worked as a set-designer for The Dowerless Bride by A.N. Ostrovsky for the Bolshoy Drama Theatre (1935). He was a member of The Artists' Cycle Society, and wrote a memoir called My Creative Development (1977). He lived at 8 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island, and was buried at Komarovskoe cemetery.

References: Баршева И. Н., Сазонова К. К. Александр Николаевич Самохвалов. Л., 1963; Зингер Л. С. Александр Самохвалов. М., 1982.

A. V. Krusanov. Belyaev V.A.
Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich
Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolaevich
Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich
Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Samokhvalov Alexander Nikolaevich
Zaleman Gugo Romanovich
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Баршева И. Н., Сазонова К. К. Александр Николаевич Самохвалов. Л., 1963
Зингер Л. С. Александр Самохвалов. М., 1982 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Circle of Artists, Creative Association
Komorovskoe Cemetery
Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theatre