February 21 was born Pyotr Konchalovsky

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was born on February 21 Pyotr Konchalovsky
February 21, 1876 - February 2, 1956

Pyotr Konchalovsky was born (9) February 21, 1876 in the city of Kharkov province Slavyansk (now Slavyansk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine). He studied at Kharkov in the third drawing school, after attending evening classes Stroganov School of Industrial Art and studied at the 1st High School.

In 1897-1898 he studied at the Paris Academy of R. Julian, and from 1898 to 1905 - in the Art School of the Arts Academy of St. Petersburg.

Pyotr Konchalovsky was well educated, fluent in French and in general had a strong attraction to Europe. His father-was a famous painter Vasily Surikov, and its influence on the formation Konchalovsky as an artist was apparent. It is with Pyotr Konchalovsky Surikov traveled on the first studies in Spain, after they have worked all over Europe.

In the early period of the artist sought to express the festive colors, typical of Russian folk art, using constructive colors by Paul Cezanne.

After the October Revolution, Peter moved to a more realistic style of painting. Many of his works known to a riot of colors that reveal the joy of life, combined with the dramatic and comic situations, time and person involved in the creation of a portrait (for example, portraits of Meyerhold, Alexei Tolstoy).

Portrait of Meyerhold Konchalovsky wrote when Meyerhold had already lost his theater, and the artist himself has refused to write a portrait of Stalin on the grounds that it "realist" and can not do portraits from photographs. However, with the outside world the artist tried not to interfere, their opinions are usually expressed with a great deal of irony. But his solo exhibition was held in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death.

Konchalovsky, also known as a master of theatrical scenery (one of the best work - registration of Rubinstein's opera "Merchant Kalashnikov"), left a great legacy graphics. During his artistic career the artist has written about two thousand paintings.

Petr Konchalovsky - winner of the Stalin Prize (1943), in 1946 was awarded the title People's Artist of the RSFSR, was awarded several medals and the Order of Red Banner of Labor.

His daughter - Natalia Konchalovsky, writer, poet and translator, wife and mother of Sergei Mikhalkov famous directors Andron Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov.

He died February 2, 1956 in Moscow.