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Stilianudi on art market is less known than Kostandi.

Here is found in his information about Stilianudi.

Two years ago, on Nov. 19, 1997, in Odessa in the house 15 to Karetny Lane appeared plaque artist, teacher and long-term secretary of the Board of the Association of South Russian artist Aleksandr Nikolaevich Stilianudi.Esli you want to know more about it, you'll find a few lines in the references so fleeting references in monographs on the history of Ukrainian art of the late XIX - early XX century. There was not a personal exhibition of the artist, not a single article devoted to him, although in the cultural life of Odessa, he played a very prominent role. Let's try to put together what little we know.

Alexander Stilianudi was born January 15, 1868 in Odessa in the family accountant. Obviously, it was thought that the sons will have to go in the footsteps of his father, as well as Alexander, and his brother Constantine ended the Greek commercial school. But in contrast to Constantine, who really became an accountant and a lifetime spent in the banks of Odessa and St. Petersburg, Alexander after business school has chosen its path. In 1885 he entered the drawing school of the Odessa Society of Fine Arts. His teachers were well-known artists KK Kostandi, GA Ladyzhenskii and A. Popov, a few years later become his comrades in a mug southern Russian artists. In 1890 Stilianudi successfully graduated from high school with medals for painting, drawing and watercolor and was recommended for study at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

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While still a student in 1893 Stilianudi showed his works at exhibitions of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and the Association of South Russian artists in Odessa. In 1892 a group of young artists opposed the rules established by the members - the founders TYURH, considering them to be unfair and to infringe the interests of most participants to the annual vystavok.Nuzhno recognize that senior quickly agreed with most of the demands of young people, and in 1893 PA Nilus , one of the instigators of the "rebellion" was written by a new charter of the Association.

   The split has been eliminated, and the Association replenished eighteen new members, mostly graduates of the Odessa Drawing School, among whom was Alexander Stilianudi. In 1895 he graduated from the picturesque branch of the Academy of Arts with high and low silver medals and the title of the class artist for the painting "Twilight (Violinist).

Back in Odessa, Stilianudi taught in public schools and real schools of the city, a lot of time to the Partnership of South Russian artists. In 1900 he was elected candidate member of the Board of the Association, in 1909-m - a member of the Board, and since January 1910 Stilianudi - permanent secretary of association. (Incidentally, the archive TYURH, now owned Institute. Rylski in Kiev, was systematized and maintained largely through the efforts of AN Stilianudi). For many years, until the death of KK Kostandi, the head of the Association were two of the artist-Greek: Kostandi - Chairman and Stilianudi - Secretary of the Board. With Kostandi Alexander Nikolayevich subsequently tied not only to professional interests and friendly relations, but also the relationship. Kostandi eldest daughter, Anna Kiriakovna, became the wife Stilianudi. By the way, to their national roots Stilianudi treated very seriously. According to the memoirs LK Kostandi, he even chided KK Kostandi in ignorance of the native Greek language. In
preserved in the collection SZ Lushchik certified copy of the questionnaire, filed AY Stilianudi in the Greek school in 1924, in the paragraph about the nationality of means: "The Greek. Greek mother tongue. Good command of Russian language."

Interesting pages in the life of the Association of South Russian artists became joint visit in the summer of 1900 at the World Exhibition in Paris. In the group, except Stilianudi were K. Kostandi, P. Nilus, Pasternak, G. Golovko. On the way artists stayed in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Basel, examined museums, studied paintings by old masters, acquainted with the latest developments in
art. In Paris Stilianudi continued to get acquainted with Western paintings in museums and exhibitions, worked in the studio, DD Kuznetsov, younger brother of a famous artist from Odessa NL Kuznetsova.

AN Stilianudi participated in almost all the exhibitions TYURH small lyrical landscapes, as the sharp-tongued critic and artist of the new, "modern" direction and MK Gershenfeld replied: "The Impressionist landscapes Stilianudi, despite their intimacy, always seem "too green".

One of the most serious reviews of the artist's work - in a review of the critic G. Visconti on XXVI exhibition TYURH in The Odessa leaf "of 8 December I916 the year:" AN Stilianudi exhibited his symphony of green shades, which are so characteristic of this artist /... /AN Stilianudi good because it is original and goes its own way. His green cloth more than once is confusing. He is not a realist, and
wrongly assessed its green symphony in terms of similarity with nature, how funny it would be evaluated from a realistic point of view, the picture-panel PA Nilus. Both of them sing original songs. AN Stilianudi found in green tones special harmonies. Not everyone, of course, these harmonies are equally like - a matter of taste, can be very loving and understanding of music, but not like this or
another system.

Paintings AN Stilianudi to suggest such an idea. Here there is a "quest" to pass a "musical" structure, "harmonies" of colors without any plot was, without an image of objects - relationships among colors ./.../AN Stilianudi looking for, strictly speaking, the same: it goal is not the transfer of "silence" story.? I6I /, and the harmonization of green tones. But this harmony he builds on the familiar objects /mountain, trees, sky, clouds /that have no independent value and serve only as a stain, the easier it is perceived by our aesthetic world that their
figure is correct, and coincides with the already familiar to us old impressions. These are our impressions of the old bridge by which the artist holds in our aesthetic world of its harmonic colorful experiences.

After the revolution, Alexander Stilianudi continued teaching, participated in the city and republican exhibitions. In 1922 he became one of the founding members and secretary-treasurer of the new artistic society of.
KK Kostandi. Since 30-ies more time and effort Stilianudi paid teaching, but after 1936 began to work in the Construction Institute and other institutions of higher education in Odessa. During these years he experienced
personal tragedy: he was arrested and shot his only son, Nicholas.

During the war, the artist remained in occupied Odessa. At this difficult time, in 1942-1943, the city held two major art exhibitions. They
exhibited their work, many remained in Odessa artists. We say that even such names as E. Bukovetsky, M. Zhuk, A. Kobtsev, DA Krainov, G. Furs. Participated in these exhibitions, which were stressed the apolitical nature, and AN Stilianudi.

In the postwar years old artist has continued to teach.

December 4, 1948 after a long illness, Alexander Stilianudi died.

The main part of the artistic heritage Stilianudi scattered throughout private collections, and only a few of his paintings are in museum collections in Odessa and Kiev. In the Institute. M. Rylski remains extensive archive of the artist. Because, first of all, the work of the Odessa branch of the Foundation of the Greek culture, reviving interest in the personality Stilianudi. We nadeyatsya that behind this sketch followed by a more serious and thorough publication, worthy
the artist and his art.

My thanks to Sergei Zenonovichu Lushchik for the material provided.

Olga Barkovsky