Isupov Alex (Alessio) V.
March 10, 1889 (Vyatka) - July 17, 1957 (Rome)
Painter, graphic artist
Born into a family woodcarver. Original art education in the icon-painting studio. In 1908 he came to Moscow and entered the MUZhViZ, where he studied under Alexander Arkhipov, Vasnetsov, as well as in the studio by Korovin and Valentin Serov. After graduating from college in 1913.
Since 1909 - Member of the Vyatka Art Circle, participated in the organization in Vyatka Museum of Art. From 1910 (until 1915) is regularly exhibited his works at exhibitions of the Union of Russian artists, from 1912 - in exhibitions TPHV, since 1916 - Member of the Association.
In 1914 he was drafted into the army and sent to a reserve regiment in Turkestan. In 1917, exempted from military service at the request of the Union of Russian Artists. In 1919 he taught at the Tashkent regional art school. In 1920 he moved to Samarkand, where on orders of the Commission for the Conservation of Historical and Cultural sketched mosaics and architecture of the ancient city. Created a series of oriental landscapes and genre scenes.
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In 1921 he returned to Moscow. Performed a series of paintings devoted to revolutionary themes, written by request of the Government of a series of portraits of Soviet public figures. In the early 1920's have been found Isupova symptoms of tuberculosis, at the insistence of the doctors he went to Italy, he settled in Rome. In the 1920's - 1930's traveled extensively in Italy, created landscapes, genre scenes and portraits. His paintings quickly gained popularity in European art circles, personal exhibition was successfully held in Rome (1927, 1928, 1933, 1945), Milan (1929-1931), Bergamo (1935), Trieste (1935), Turin (1937) , also participated in exhibitions in France, Holland and Belgium.
The artist's work continued to appear on Soviet exhibitions, particularly at the First State traveling exhibition in 1925, and others. He sympathized with Soviet Russia, was familiar with Maxim Gorky and Soviet Ambassador in Rome, DI Kursk. During the Second World War took part in the Italian Resistance.
After the war he worked relatively little because of progressive disease of hands, wrote mostly still lifes.
Memorial exhibition Isupova passed in Kirov (1971), Moscow (1973), Tashkent (1977).
In his works he has managed to unite the Russian artistic tradition and an excellent knowledge of the techniques of European schools of painting. But in Russia, his name until recently was known only to specialists. This is largely due to the fact that the largest and most productive part of the artist's life took place in Italy, where he gained fame brilliant draftsman and painter, working with a variety of genres: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, domestic violence and animal genre.
Creativity Isupova represented in many European and Russian museums, including the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, contemporary art gallery in Milan and Naples, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The most significant collection of works by the master has the Kirov Regional Art Museum. VM and AM Vasnetsov, which as a bequest Isupova widow received a large part of the Roman master works (300 paintings).