Sterligov Vl.V. (1904-1973), painter

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STERLIGOV Vladimir Vasilievich (1904-1973, Petrodvorets), painter. Sterligov studied the principles of cubism and suprematism in K.S. Malevich State Institute of Artistic Culture (1926). Together with V.M. Ermolaeva, K.K. Rozhdestvensky and L.A. Yudin, he entered the Group of Pictorial Plastic Realism. In the early 1930s he contributed to the children's journals Chizh and Ezh. Later, in 1934-38, he served a term in the camp near Karaganda on a fabricated charge. Sterligov practised landscapes, interiors, still life paintings and portraits. From 1960 onwards he developed a new plastic spatial principle in painting; this principle was based on the formation of spherical elements in painting, demonstrated in such works as Upon the Sublime (1968), Ambient Geometry (1973). Both paintings are reposited in the State Russian Museum. Sterligov taught numerous students and developed a wide following, A.B. Baturin, G.G. Zubkov and M.G. Tserush among the, although he was not officially recognised. The joint exhibition he held in 1966 together with his wife T.N. Glebova at the Leningrad Department of the Union of Painters was closed down by the authorities on its opening day. He lived at 2/49 Ozerkovaya Street, Petrodvorets from 1966, while his studio was located at 52 Lenina Street. He was buried at Babigonskoe Cemetery.

References: Дух дышит, где хочет: В. В. Стерлигов, 1904-1973: Выст. произведений: Каталог. Ст. Воспоминания. СПб., 1995; Пространство Стерлигова. СПб., 2001.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Baturin A.B.
Ermolaeva Vera Mikhailovna
Glebova Tatyana Nikolaevna
Malevich Kazimir Severinovich
Rozhdestvensky Konstantin Ivanovich
Sterligov Vladimir Vasilievich
Tserush M.G.
Yudin Lev Alexandrovich
Zubkov Gennady Gerasimovich
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 52
Ozerkovaya Street/Peterhoff, town, house 49, litera корп. 2
Пространство Стерлигова. СПб., 2001
Дух дышит, где хочет: В. В. Стерлигов, 1904-1973: Выст. произведений: Каталог. Статьи. Воспоминания. СПб., 1995 Institute of Artistic Culture
Chiz and Yezh (Siska and Hedgehog), journals
Russian Museum, State