Search biography of the artist KP Kuznetsov

[Станислав Михайлович]

Hello. We are the local historian and teacher of Dzerzhinsk Nizhny Novgorod Region Stanislav Mikhailovich. Advise, where you can find detailed biography of the artist Kuznetsov Konstantin Pavlovich. He was born in our region - in with. Zhelnina Nizhny Novgorod region in 1863 is now near Dzerzhinsk. He died in 1936 in Paris. His works are in the Tretyakov Gallery. Unfortunately, the preserved home in Zhelnina, where he was born, tombstones in the local churchyard, where his relatives are buried, is threatening the gradual destruction. I would like to raise public opinion and to speak in the press in defense of the home, where he was born an outstanding artist. But do not have detailed biography of the artist, there is no popular information about its contribution to the art. It is known that his daughter Elena Viver-Kuznetsova, younger Olga lived in Paris. Advise how to possibly contact with his descendants in Paris? Advise, who can I contact by e-mail to learn more about the artist's childhood and youth, his family, lives and works in Paris. He was married to a Moscow artist AA Samodurov. Thank you. Yours, Stanislav M..

[intart1]

Biogafiya artist is in the book: Leikind, Makarov, Severyukhina.
Russian artists living abroad.
Peterburg.1999

[Станислав Михайлович]

Artist Konstantin Kuznetsov was married to a Moscow artist Alexandra Alekseevne Samodurov. Maybe in Moscow circles it was known last name? In Paris, had three children. COMMENT lived in Montmartre, exhibited at prestigious galleries in Paris. In 1960 one of the daughters Kuznetsova gave a series of pictures of his father in the Tretyakov Gallery. Unfortunately, the ancestral home Kuznetsova in Zhelnina threatens destruction. While in the preservation of the tombstones of his parents at the cemetery. Knowledge of the life and work of the artist on the basis of the documentary would help to perpetuate the memory Kuznetsova in his homeland. Stanislav.

[Glasha]

Stanislav M., knowledgeable person on Russian artists in France, said that one of his daughters released a book about Konstantin Kuznetsov (which of them - I do not know the source data based on the book, too, there is not),
and this book was on sale five years ago, probably in a Russian bookstore Globe in Paris. Here are their coordinates: http://www.evrokatalog.eu/node/3456

They say in Russian, if you decide to call. A better write to them via e-mail (I phoned, promised to find at least these books, but ... probably have to fumble ... )

[Станислав Михайлович]

Hello! Thank you for your reply. Advise, please, where to go to make contact with descendants of the painter Konstantin Pavlovich Kuznetsov (1863 -1936), from 1900. lived in France. Since 1927 he lived permanently with his family in Paris - in Montmartre, then in Montparnasse. His daughter, Elena - Viver Kuznetsova organized posthumous exhibition of his father in Paris: Museum Carnival (1984), mayor of Paris XVI district (1986), the City District VI (1992). Pictures Kuznetsova presented at the National Museum of Modern Art Paris, Museum E. Boudin, and others. In the village of Zhelnina, near Nizhny Novgorod, kept house, where he was born and spent his childhood at the village churchyard - the graves of his parents. We, his fellow countrymen, it is necessary to perpetuate the memory of the artist. But, unfortunately, does not have a complete biography, KP Kuznetsov, his own photographs, parents and other documentary evidence of his belonging to the village Zhelnina Nizhny Novgorod region. Advise how to find communication with the descendants of the artist Kuznetsova. I await your reply. Thank you. Yours, Stanislav.