ARTIST KONSTANTIN VASILIEV A.

Artist Konstantin Vasiliev A. (1942-1976)

Konstantin Vasiliev was Born in Maikop (Adygei AO) during the German occupation of the city. From 1949, he lived in the village of Vasilevo near Kazan.

the Love of painting in the boy woke up early. His special talent was noticed, and his parents sent him to Moscow art school-интернат. Then he studied at the Kazan art school (1957—1961). Worked as a teacher of drawing and painting in high school, художником-оформителем.

the artistic heritage Vasilyeva, which includes more than 400 works extensively: paintings, drawings, sketches, illustrations, sketches, painting of the Church in Omsk.

the works of the early 1960-х he marked influence of surrealism and abstract expressionism ("Струна", 1963;" Абстрактные songs", 1963).
In the late 1960-х he abandoned the formalistic search, worked in a realistic manner.

Vasiliev turned to folk art: Russian songs, epics, tales, Scandinavian and Irish sagas, to" эддической poetry". Created works on mythological subjects, heroic themes of Slavic and Scandinavian epics of the great Patriotic war ("Маршал bugs"," Нашествие"," Парад forty-first"," Тоска Home", all — 1974).
he also Worked in the genre of landscape and portrait ("Лебеди", 1967;" Северный eagle", 1969;" У well", 1973;" Ожидание", 1976;" Человек with the owl", 1976).
the author of the graphic series of portraits of composers and musicians:" Шостакович" (1961)," Бетховен" (1962)," Скрябин" (1962)," Римский-Корсаков" (1962) and other; graphic cycle to the Opera Wagner" Кольцо of the Nibelungs" (1970-е gg.).

Participant of Republican exhibition" Художники-сатирики Kazan" (Moscow, 1963), shows in Zelenodolsk and Kazan (1968-76). In 1980-90-е he held a number of solo exhibitions Vasilyeva in many cities of Russia and also in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Spain.

Open a Memorial Museum in the village Vasilyevo (1996), Art gallery of Kazan (1996) and the Museum of Konstantin Vasilyev in Moscow Lianozovo Park (1998). The prize of Komsomol of Tartary them. Jalil for a series of paintings about the great Patriotic war (in 1988).

Konstantin Vasilyev was tragically killed — was shot down with a friend at a railway crossing passing train. It happened on 29 October 1976. He was buried in the village of Vasilyevo. Constantine was buried in a birch grove in the forest where he loved to visit.

In 1984 the family moved to Vassiliev Kolomna near Moscow, where she carried all owned by the artist"s paintings. The Museum occupies part of a residential building, includes the memorial apartment of 53.3 m2. The basis of the exhibition entitled memorial collection passed to his sister of the artist V. A. Vasilieva and his friends.

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