Return of Peter Kohn

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Yesterday, December 3, 2013 in the International Club of Odessa citizens in Odessa , an exhibition of Peter Kohn , a disciple Kostandi and Korovin, whose portraits and wrote Shovkunenko A. Gerasimov , who devoted his life to teaching art in Odessa .

Eugene Golubovskii
Alexander Dimitrenko

The return of Peter Kohn

    Odessa Art School gave our city , country , yes we can say - the world dozens of significant names. In their shadows disappear from time to time , lost, perhaps less significant figures who gaze at not only the right , but must be returned to us, the descendants , the artistic culture.
    Think for a long time it was the turn to look into the creativity in personality Novikov Kohn , moreover, that this year two anniversaries associated with it - he was born in 1883 and died in Odessa in Odessa , too - in 1953, 60 years ago . Much of his creative life passed in our city.
    First , one of us ( E. Golubovskii ) P. Kohn saw work on one of the new exhibition of the Art Museum , though later she was again returned to the museum collections . It was a wonderful watercolor "The Poet" . But nowhere else drawings, paintings , sketches , watercolors Kohn been exhibited . Think about it the old-timers as the collector , educator , eccentric .
    Huge role in the "discovery" of Peter Kohn played researcher collector Sergei Lushchik . He first of all we have to resurrection in 1966 of the almost forgotten name.
      Sergei Zenonovich Lushchik addressed to the heritage of the artist three times , as far back as 1966 , the newspaper " Komsomolskaya Іskra " article " Istoria one malyunka " then " Vecherka " in 1981 "Unknown portrait ," and finally , in the most Review and biographical article " Unknown PS Kohn ," published in the newspaper " World Odessa News " in 1997 More on the artist , teacher , collector and bibliophile Peter Kohn Sergeyevich did not find a single publication. But it was not enough to keep this thread that linked today's day and that leaving , eventful era in which he lived and worked , our hero , has led us to a modest celebration of the 130th anniversary of the artist's birth . Great job to identify all the vicissitudes biography Kohn today did one of us (Alexander Dimitrenko )
      Peter S. Kohn - Leshchuk born January 21, 1883 in Odessa.
In an extract from the book for metric number 284 of July 31, 1909 stated : peasant Hmelnikovskoy parish Litin county Podolia Peacock Ioannovna Kohn illegally gave birth to a son, Peter , 30 January of the same year, Archpriest Dimitry Odessa Church of the Intercession Mochul'skii makes the sacrament of baptism . Also, in an extract is reported that in this act aforesaid Peter Kohn , the definition of the Odessa Regional Court of 28 June 1901 legalized philistine Procopius Gavrilovichu Leschukovu and his lawful wife Peacock Ioannovne nee Kohn .
An interesting fact is that in the surviving documents from the late 19th - early 20th century , the name of the artist varies : Kohn , Kanovsky , Lishchuk , Leshchuk .
According to the memoirs of the artist himself , he did not remember his father , stepfather and honored his name and wrote hyphenated Kohn - Leshchuk . Accept this option names, as signed by the artist himself .
Here's how he describes Peter S. by early childhood and adolescence in his autobiography on January 23, 1952 : " ... Father Kohn died when I was little. Stepfather - Leshchuk Prokofi Gavrilovic worked in city water at the station . Distemper chaser . Died in 1927, his mother died in 1925
From the age of 15 I started working , working stock leathers, covered markets on the building of the New Bazaar in the mountains. Odessa. In the 1904-1905 . worked as a telephone operator at the city water art. Distemper and while attending Sunday classes at the Odessa Art School and passing the exams , was admitted to the actual pupil of the school ... ".
During training at the Drawing School of the Odessa Society of Fine Arts for the past 1898-1899 academic year on drawing with geometric solids was awarded a certificate of merit for the number 200 of May 24, 1899
In 1906-1909 years. studied in the studio on K. Kostandi pictorial sculpture department of the Odessa Art School of the Society of Fine Arts , after which awarded teacher of drawing , calligraphy and drawing in secondary schools . Diploma № 223 of 12.09.09 .
In 1909-1914 years. studied in the studio on a picturesque K.Korovin at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. At the end of the artist received his easel .
Of autobiography in 1952 : " ... As a student of the school and at the end of it, wrote the scenery in the People's Vedeno house factory Frenovskoy manufactory , decorated hunting club and participated in exhibitions .
In 1916, the mobilization Warriors 2nd class , was conscripted and enlisted in the 56th Infantry Regiment as a private emergency [Moscow] . In the same year I was , as a graduate university, was sent to the Alexander Military School ( 4 mo . Accelerated release ) [Moscow] , by the end of whom I was sent to the city of Ryazan in the 208th Infantry Regiment, a reserve ensign .
In June 1917 , he was part of artist Konstantin Korovin on the Southwestern Front for sketching , where he was enrolled in the 17th Engineers Regiment , which was to demobilize - December 1917 ... ".
In 1917 he returned to Odessa and gave private lessons in drawing and painting.
From 1918 to 1925 a member of the Union "Metalist" . Since 1925 member of the Union " Rabis ".
February 14, 1920 th - August 25, 1922 and worked as a draftsman at the same time in charge of the archive drawings for State Aircraft Factory number 11 , was dismissed due to the closure of the plant.
In 1923, Kohn sent from Odessa to Kharkov as a former officer of the imperial army. Archived SZ Lushchikov preserved letter - petition without a destination, and the date signed by 2 members of the CPSU (b ) [ signature illegible ] , which states : " ... In Kharkov I gave a letter to Comrade Commissar . Balytsky , in which he recommended that Kohn best sides on the letter was that Balitsky impose appropriate resolution and so Kohn issued a document of the GPU with the specified letter for rehabilitation in Odessa , but the documents were lost ... ". Apparently, the petition was granted and the artist will soon be allowed to return to Odessa, where he gave drawing lessons for the club and rope factory workers wrote the scenery and portraits.
August 7, 1925 -th - May 16, 1929 worked as an artist - property- on the 1st Odessa Film Factory HFSA on Proletarian Boulevard 33.
In 1929 he became a member of the art society named K. Kostandi . An interesting detail - the memories daughters K. Kostandi , Love and Mary, posthumous exhibition K. Kostandi , held in the museum at Sophia May 18 - June 18, 1924 , designed by PS Kohn , although neither one year later , neither other exhibitions of the Society was not (according to exhibition catalogs ) .
Taught drawing at school , trade schools in Odessa film studio from January 1 to September 1, 1931
As of 1931-1933 . performing art orders from " Ukrsadovintrest ."
From 1932 to July 1934 worked as a painter at the Art and sculpture workshops cooperative " Odesskhudozhnik ."
On January 15, 1935 to October 1, 1941 a teacher of painting and drawing in OGHU , associate professor of painting and drawing .
Was one of the few delegates at the Odessa 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of Artists , held in October 1938 in Kiev. Preserved portrait sketches Novikov from this event . And in general, I must say that with a pencil and a notebook he rarely parted everywhere and sketched what he saw . To have survived a lot of drawings and sketches , with place and date of signature . The exhibition in the International Club Odessites presented such figures .
Member of the Odessa Regional Union of Soviet artists and sculptors since its inception in early 1934 , a member of the Odessa Regional Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine since October 16, 1938

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During the occupation, was a member of the Society of Artists in Odessa, executed works on religious themes ( Large image of Our Lady and 4 evangelists ) , member of the " first exhibition of the Society of Odessa artists " (opened December 3, 1941 in the salon on the street. Transfiguration , 23) , the second exhibition «Salonul Oficial» ( September 13, 1942 in the premises of the " Academy of Fine Arts " on the street . Sophia , 16), the third exhibition in occupied Odessa (June 6 - July 18, 1943 in the premises of the Company of Odessa artists ) in the fourth (5 September - 1 October 1943 in 8 halls of " Academy of Fine Arts ").
Since the opening of the "Academy of Fine Arts " taught painting and drawing professor.
On April 16, 1944 until his death he taught painting and drawing at the Odessa State Art College and headed the museum school.
June 21, 1944 was reinstated as a member of the Odessa Regional Branch of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine.
January 25, 1952 President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR AM Gerasimov in Moscow signed by the Director OGHU GZ Krizhevsky sent representation to the title of Professor Peter Kohn - Leshchuk Sergeyevich , but ... I do not have time !

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May 28, 1953 Peter S. Kohn - Leshchuk died after a long illness from cancer of the stomach and the next day buried in a Christian cemetery II in Odessa.
On the reverse side of the Certificate of Death detail specified place of burial: section 66 , line 11 , grave number 43 , but the date of his death 60 years have passed , and all attempts to find his grave were unsuccessful.
In 1909 lived at pool lane. , 2, before the war - st. Shchepkina 21 m. 2 . In 1946 - st. Engels (now Marazlievskaya ) , 38 m. 7 , 1948 - Proletarian Boulevard , 17, m. 16.
According to the memoirs of the artist participated in regional and two national exhibitions and has twice been contracted . Maybe it's 4th (1931) and 5th (1933) Republican exhibition, which lists exhibitors found.
Reliably able to establish the participation of Novikov in the following exhibitions :
May 1934 - in " the first exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture artists Odessa ", organized by the Union of Soviet Odessa orgburo artists and held at the Odessa State Art Museum ( Sabaneyev bridge, 4);
November 1947 - in an exhibition devoted XXX- anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Odessa State Museum of Western and Oriental Art ;
1948 - personal exhibition was organized without the presence of the public (private report ) indoors Odessa regional organization SSKHU .
All documents indicated that Novikov was a bachelor . But one of us in the 70s was visiting with his wife , artist Olga Mikhailovna Skorobogatova ( 1908-1994 ) , which stores all the legacy of the artist more than 40 years , until his death . Perhaps marriage was not official , and civil . The house has kept the wizard.
The more valuable it becomes weightier and artistic heritage of this wonderful master and disciple Kostandi Korovin, whose portraits and wrote Shovkunenko A. Gerasimov , devoted his life to teaching art in Odessa.
Conclusion SZ Lushchikov Article 1997 "Unknown Kohn " was sad . As an artist , in fact, never took place. Years passed , bit by bit , we collected material for this exhibition in private collections Kostin S. and A. Lisowski , S. and T. Zhalobnyuka Goncharenko , S. and E. Lushchikov Goloubovsky , A. and L. Drozdowski Stoyanova , A. and Dimitrenko other . And , imagine , changed the view on the legacy of the artist. First, he was a master . Second, a teacher , a brilliant draftsman. But in the mid- 20s he " stepped on the throat of his own song ." Become a Socialist Realist painter he did not allow a conscience. He knew too well the art world , collecting postcards , reproductions , books with his possessory signature stored in many book collections Odessa , even the original works of P. and P. Nilus Volokidin to afford to write " kolkhoz markets " ... And PS Kohn consciously chose honest life collector and teacher participation in regional and republican exhibitions. But talent draftsman retained . And even this small exhibition in the International Club Odessites shows what masters gave K. Kostandi school , the school of Konstantin Korovin , what can and should be proud of Odessa .

[EvgeniyMarkov]

Vivian has a question.
Know anything on this occasion?


Sergei Zenonovich recalled that Shovkunenko before departure from Odessa to Kiev sold off their furniture, and some of this furniture (sofa, tables, chairs) Kohn bought for his young wife.

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Partly spravochka on the coat of arms .

This is not just a sketch , and the arms Branickis graphs - a noble and wealthy Polish family , which among other possessions belonged to White Church .

Xavier Branitsky received an award for the suppression of a number krectyansko - Cossack revolts - Koliivschina , city White Church and Stavishche , 134 villages with a population of over 40,000 people. Since then the White Church becomes private property Branickis graphs .

In 1781 in St. Petersburg Hetman married favorite cameras , the maid of honor of the Empress Catherine II , niece Serene Prince Grigory Potemkin , Alexandra Engelhardt . Catherine II wanted lasting peace with Poland and support marriage between Russian and Polish nobles gentry.

Winter Branitsky performed at the court of Catherine II in St. Petersburg, and in the summer moved to his estates in Ukraine, most often in the White Church . In 1784 AV Branickaya received it as a gift from the estate of her husband and began to bring it into order. Parks European capitals , where it has repeatedly been inspired Alexander Branitskaia to create at least an exquisite park in their main residence . Park Name given in his honor - "Alexandria" .

At Xavier Branitskogo and Alexandra Engelhardt family had five children , two sons and three daughters. At the beginning of 1819 Countess Alexandra Branickaya together with his younger daughter Elizabeth went on a long trip to Europe, especially in Paris . In Paris, Elizabeth Branickaya met 36 -year-old Lieutenant-General Count Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov became his bride , and then his wife .

In May 1823 Vorontsov was appointed Governor-General of New Russia and Bessarabia region. Since autumn 1823 in Odessa to her husband arrived Elizabeth Vorontsov. Elizabeth Ksaverevna enjoyed success with the men and was always surrounded by admirers , amongst whom at the time of his southern exile poet Alexander Pushkin ...

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Сообщение от EvgeniyMarkov

Vivian, there is such a question.
Know anything on this occasion?

I personally do not know such details.
Need to be checked with Lushchikov SZ

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Сообщение от Vivienne

The return of Peter Kohn

Vivienne, thank you for your message about creativity P.S.Konovskogo ! <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
So I got from you valuable information
 which requested the members of the forum to share back in 2011 :

http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showpo...1&postcount=91

   

Сообщение от Vivienne

... great watercolor « Poet »...

Vivienne, this watercolor 1906 question :

http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showpo...1&postcount=92

By the way , dear Vivienne, I remind you that in my avatar used a fragment of Peter Kohn 1908 ... <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

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Сообщение от Kaffsky

By the way, my dear Vivian, I remind you that in my avatar used a fragment of Peter Kohn in 1908 ...

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