Albert Stirn. Painting

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Stirn, Albert V. was born May 21, 1928 in the small town of Spas-Demensky under Kozelsk in the Kaluga region. In early childhood the family moved to Kozelsk, where he spent his childhood and youth of the future artist. Stirn Family came from the Baltic Latvians, but my father has Stirn was born in Russia. Name Stirn - in Latvian means - deer, antelope. And when my father got a passport, his name was transformed into a Russified - Stirn. His father worked as an engineer-surveyor, was a brilliant mathematician, and her first child named in honor of Albert Einstein. He dreamed that his son follow in his footsteps, but Albert had no inclination to exact sciences - he liked to draw. In 1948 he successfully passed the exams at the Moscow Art-Industrial School. Kalinin on the painting department and helped him in this art Lydia Bespalov. Her father was sitting in the same camp with his father Stirn was very friendly with him and in his letters to his daughter asked to provide all possible assistance to the son of a friend.
Extreme poverty has forced the future artist to combine study with work. In school the talented student noticed and called to it as "our Levitan." In those years the school served as a consultant well-known painter Vasily N. Baksheyev. He belonged to the glorious constellation of Russian artists, which is decorated with the names of Polenov, Levitan, Nesterov. It was up to the subtleties of an artist who has studied the life of nature, who knows many of its secrets and mysteries. They learned the secrets of Baksheev in constant communion with nature, and taught his students, in spite of his advanced age. It was he at that time far beyond eighty. If you look at early sketches Stirn, we see a clear impact Baksheev. Do not hide it, and the artist himself. The main taught them a great teacher - the ability to admire the beauties of nature - Albert has successfully embodied in their works. Also among the teachers remembered Stirnu Nicholas Prisekin recognized painter of battle-grekovets.
The last two courses a student Stirn lived in a dormitory school, which was located on the Red Presnya. Erected around the high-rise buildings, which are side by side with one or two-story buildings of old Moscow. Albert loved these corners of the old town. And he liked the same place to write in different seasons. Gradually, these studies developed a whole suite - "Moscow disappearing", so you can call these little boxes. They hand the novice master depicted the old Moscow courtyards with laundry hanging on a rope, Muscovites, hurrying away in inclement weather, the truck with uncomplicated belongings settlers and built skyscrapers in the distance. Already in these early works Stirn announced himself as an artist, sensitive spirits of nature, its fickle nature.
In college, Albert fell in love with her younger sister Lydia Bespalova art, was close to their family. Lidiya while working on a monograph on the Appolinaria Vasnetsov (L. Bespalov. "A. Vasnetsov, 1856-1933." Moscow, 1956) and was well received in the workshop of the Konstantin Yuon. She introduced the famous painter Stirn and educator. Painting a young artist like Yuonu, and he offered him work in his studio, the good he had just defended his thesis. It was in 1956.