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Mykola Barsamov

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Mykola Barsamov
Born5 December 1892
Tbilisi, Georgia
Died10 March 1976 (1976-03-11) (aged 83)
Feodosia
EducationMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Known forartist, researcher of I.K. Aivazovsky's work

Mykola Stepanovych Barsamov (5 December 1892, Tbilisi–10 March 1976, Feodosia) was a Ukrainian Soviet artist and researcher of I.K. Aivazovsky's work.

Biography

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In 1913, he graduated from the Rostov School of Drawing. He studied in the private studio of II Mashkov in Moscow. In 1913–1917, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

In the late 1910s and early 1920s, he worked as a drawing teacher in the city of Izyum, in Samara, and as a retouching artist in Moscow.[1]

Director of the Feodosia Historical and Archaeological Museum (1923–1936), Feodosia Art Gallery (1923–1962); scientific consultant of the Feodosia Art Gallery. I.K. Aivazovsky (1962–1976).[2] He made a disproportionate contribution to increasing the funds of the art gallery, because the artist I.K. Aivazovsky left 49 of his works in Feodosia, and all of them were painted in the last years of the marine painter's life. Barsamov organized an art studio at the gallery in the 1930s and an art school in 1952.[3]

He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the USSR (1969). Honorary citizen of Feodosia (1962).

The figure of Barsamov became a link that connected the representatives of the Cimmerian school of painting of two generations: the beginning and the middle of the twentieth century. M.S. Barsamov's students were: S. Mamchich, V.O. Sokolov, P.K. Stolyarenko, M. Ya. Shorin.

Art

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Barsamov created a number of paintings on the heroic history of the Crimea, portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Paintings "The Battleship Potemkin" (1941), "Marines in Feodosia" (1942), "recover port in Feodosia" (1947), "Grapes and peaches" (1959), portraits, landscapes of the Crimea, etc. Tr. about the work of Aivazovsky, including kN. "Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky" (1941).[4]

References

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  1. ^ "КАРТИНЫ БАРСАМОВА. Барсамов Николай Степанович - крымский художник, искусствовед, педагог, почетный гражданин Феодосии". gallery.crimea.ua. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. ^ "Artist Barsamov Nikolay Stepanovich". artinvestment.ru. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  3. ^ "Барсамов Николай Степанович (1892-1976)". feo.travel (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  4. ^ "Nikolay Stepanovich Barsamov: biography". Artchive. Retrieved 2020-10-12.