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Pavel Varfolomeevich Kuznetsov
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Pavel Varfolomeevich Kuznetsov – a Russian painter, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1928). Pavel Kuznetsov was born into a family of icon painters. He studied painting with V.V. Konovalov in Saratov, and then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the guidance of V.A. Serov and K.A. Korovin. The painting of V.E. Borisov-Musatov had a notable influence on Kuznetsov's work.
Kuznetsov was the organizer of the "Scarlet Rose" (1904) and "Blue Rose" (1907) exhibitions. In 1906, at the invitation of Sergei Diaghilev, the artist visited Paris, where he studied art in private studios and became a lifelong member of the Paris "Salon d'Automne." Kuznetsov's best-known works devoted to the East were created in the 1910s. His "steppe" and "Bukhara" cycles were inspired by travels through the Trans-Volga steppes and Central Asia, Samarkand and Bukhara. In the early 1920s he mastered the technique of original lithography and created the series "Turkestan" and "Mountain Bukhara." In 1923, on behalf of the People's Commissariat for Education, Kuznetsov presented a solo exhibition in Paris, after which his famous "Parisian Comedians" appeared. The painter was also the organizer and chairman of the art society "Four Arts" (1924–1931).
From the mid-1920s through the 1930s Kuznetsov traveled extensively around the country, working in Crimea and the North Caucasus. He created large canvases depicting the life of collective farms in Crimea and Armenia, the construction of Yerevan, the labor of Armenian carpet weavers, and also captured the new constructions of the 1930s – the harbor in Mariupol and the Volga–Moscow Canal. From 1917 to 1937 and from 1945 to 1948 he taught at Vkhutemas–Vkhutein, the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts and other educational institutions. He remained actively productive during the last thirty years of his life, working mainly in the genres of landscape and still life. Pavel Varfolomeevich Kuznetsov
Date of birth
17 November 1878
Date of death
21 February 1968
Occupation
Artist