Gradually the artist expands the thematic range of his works, drawn to the themes of collective village, socialist production and, finally - the portrait. The biggest success he achieves in his series of portraits of shock and Stakhanovites village, artists and public figures. This is mainly the head of a large size, made in the manner of a dry needle or soft enamel. The portraits of a lot of expression and given a significant response ( "Drummer Volkov" - drypoint, "Portrait of the sculptor Yakovlev, soft ground, etc.).
In addition to etching and its varieties B. X. Sause works in other techniques, engraving, owning them as in perfect. He works in colored linocuts, lithographs and monotypes. In all these areas he has made a number of improvements, and such manners as "gum arabic" or multicolored stencil are his own inventions. He also worked a lot over to Improve ¬ vaniem monotypes, seeking its multiple print runs.
B. X. Sause participated extensively in the overall artistic life, was an active participant in artistic organizations and has exhibited his works at exhibitions. Since 1900, he exhibited watercolors at exhibitions in Moscow and Leningrad and in the exhibitions of the Odessa T-wah Southern Russian artists. Since 1894, he became a member of the T-va. From 1925 to 1929 he was exposed to exhibitions of the Art O-va im. KK Kostandi, and from 1927 to 1939 in all Ukrainian and All-Union exhibitions.
Along with artistic activities V.X. Sause spent much pedagogical work. Invited in 1920 in Odessa Art Institute, he organizes the graphic arts department and teaches a number of talented Soviet graphs (Kovturman, Gust, Bolle, Grinstein, David, Grabbe and others).
Merits V.X. Sause were marked by the party and government: in 1930 he was promoted to professor in 1939 - he was awarded the Shevchenko Jubilee Medal. A large number of his best works acquired for the state museums. Etchings, linocuts and watercolors V.X. Sause are in the Odessa Museum of Russian and Ukrainian arts, museums and artistic ¬ nom Institute of Kiev, in Ukrainian picture gallery, in Kharkov, in the Russian Museum and the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad, in museums: Yerevan, Mariupol, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Tiraspol, and t . e.
B. X. Sause died on 26 June 1939. Government and public art series of measures to perpetuate the memory of the master and facilitate in-depth study of his creative heritage: Ukrainian publishing house "Art of" produced an extensive monograph on the wizard, and an album of his works, the Odessa Board of the Union of Soviet Artists, organized etching studio them. B. X. Sause, which passed etching machine and tools wizard. Organized at the museum posthumous exhibition B. X. Sause is also one of the activities to publicize the wizard and assigned the task to introduce the artistic legacy of a remarkable etcher of all the artists and the masses of workers.
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