Houses in Saltykovka

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In 1911, a Lopasnya (now the town of Chekhov), where he was born in 1881, to live in Saltykovka moved to 30-year-old, already fairly well-known artist and sculptor George D. Alexeev. It is known that in 1901 Alekseev successfully passed exams and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the picturesque class, where he taught such famous artists as Vladimir Serov, Konstantin Korovin, A. Vasnetsov, and others. Studying is going well - the master and the fans recognize his successful painting "Autumn motive", "burners", "On the construction site and some other works.
In 1907, after graduating from the picturesque class, Alekseev entered the sculpture department of the College Trubetskoy and S. Volnukhin. Under their leadership, creates a sculptural composition "Samson tearing the lion's jaws, sculptural portraits of" Work "," Head of a Peasant ".
For the successful implementation of paintings and sculptures by young artist was awarded the silver medal and is entitled to have visited West Germany, France, Italy, where he visited museums in Paris, Dresden, Rome, and becomes acquainted with the world's masterpieces of art.
In the years 1910-1911 Alekseev creates a painting "militia", dedicated to the centennial of the War of 1812, collaborating with film companies "Era", "Gaumont", "Napoleon" is working on kinoplakatami, preparing illustrations published by ID IDSytin.
After October Alekseev creates a bas-relief "Glory to the oppressed and the high relief" worker and peasant "- for the Duma building. In those years the artist enjoyed great fame. He has successfully worked with Mayakovsky and the artist-satirist M. Cheremnykh in windows ROST wrote militant revolutionary posters, Alekseev was one of the first members of new art associations DXF, AHHR, Moschus, and in 1923 participated in the construction and design of the pavilions of the agricultural exhibition Moscow.
Of the nearly half a century of creative activity Alekseev forty years working in his workshop in Saltykovka. It is here that were created hundreds of paintings, sculptures and graphic works.
His creative studio - home on the shores of Golden Pond, was visited by many celebrities: here there were Igor Grabar and Yesenin, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Ivan Moskvin, Vasily Kachalov and others. All received hospitably and hospitable.
Painter and sculptor died in 1951, seventy years old, in almost complete obscurity. Only in 1977 by a decision of the local authority in the home and studio in Alekseeva Saltykovka was a memorial plaque. Here is an unknown artist's painting "House in Saltykovka, Plywood, oil. 39 x 41 cm Created probably about 1916 - 1920. Because another one-story house. On the reverse side of "Still Life with a teapot"