VA Apostoli (Triondafilos)

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The picture is almost one and a half to five feet is in the permanent exhibition of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts and exhibited in the department of domestic art of XX century. The Museum possesses Act of 25.08.1936 on the transfer of funds in the museum with the exhibition "Ural-Kuzbass in painting."

This exhibition from 1935 to 1936 was traveling. It opened in Sverdlovsk and then exhibited in the club of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and at other sites. In 1936 part of the picture was transferred to the Sverdlovsk Museum of Fine Arts. Artists who participated in the exhibition, mostly were sent to the Urals from Moscow and St. Petersburg. Their task was to document capture unprecedented in the history of the country's industrial construction and enthusiasm of the workers.

One of these artists was Vladimir Apostoli, his real name Triondafilos. That he showed the driver of the Perm Railway Lyaskovsky against the background of locomotive and the steam engine "Cheka" what made a note on the back of the canvas. In addition to this work, the museum holds another one, written by his hand at the same time - "Portrait of greaser Perm Railroad."

On the very little known artist. Vladimir Apostoli was born in Saratov in 1890.

In 1911 he graduated from the Kazan art school, and then the Academy of Arts. Since 1916 began to participate in exhibitions. In the early 1920's he worked in Astrakhan and Saratov, and later in Leningrad. In 1924, Apostoli joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.

The picture shows the locomotive Sotka nineteen, he called all Suu 100-19, that is Sormovskiy improved, a series of one hundred, machine number nineteen. Now the car is in the locomotive depot Sverdlovsk-Passenger.

And in the foreground-driver Alexander Konstantinovich Lyaskovsky. Real, of course, people
he is so well discharged, his features unmistakably recognizable as those who knew him, even the icon Drummer Stalinist call "visible.

And that's about the artist himself does not know much.
Nobody knows whether about him?

VA Apostoli (Triondafilos) (1890-1942), "The driver Lyaskovsky", 1935, s /m, 140x140, izbrazitelnogo Ekaterinburg Museum of Art.