Vasily Golubev

Vasily Vasilievich Golubev
Born June 15, 1925
Medvezhje, Yaroslavl Province, USSR
Died August 31, 1985 (aged 60)
Leningrad, USSR
Nationality Russian
Education Tavricheskaya Art School
Known for Painting
Movement Expressionism, Realism

Vasily Vasilievich Golubev (Russian: Го́лубев Васи́лий Васи́льевич; June 15, 1925, Medvezhje, Yaroslavl Province, USSR - 1985, Leningrad, USSR) – Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists,[1] regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.[2]

Biography

Vasily Vasilievich Golubev was born June 15, 1925, in the village of Medvezhje, Yaroslavl Province, USSR, into a peasant family.

Horses. 1962

In 1938 Vasily Golubev graduated from elementary school in town Soligalich and came to Leningrad, where he lived and worked since 1938. In 1941 he graduated from the Building college. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic war Vasily Golubev volunteered for the Red Army. In January 1942 he was enrolled in flying school in Omsk, then studied at the Omsk tank school. Since March 1944 he served as a mechanic-driver 2-nd reserve tank regiment in Nizhny Tagil. In 1945 Golubev became seriously ill. He was treated at a hospital in Nizhniy Tagil, and then Leningrad. Later, he was discharged as a disabled veteran.

In 1948 Vasily Golubev entered the Tavricheskaya Art School where he studied at V. Petrova, G. Shakh, M. Shuvaev. In 1952 he graduated from Art School with the qualification of an artist and teacher of painting and drawing. After graduation, he lived to benefit disabled veterans and the funds received for the execution of paintings under contracts with the State Art Fund.

Since the end of the 1950s he was constantly involved in art exhibitions of Leningrad artists. He painted landscapes, still lifes, and genre compositions. He was most famous as a master of landscape. In 1966 Vasily Golubev was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists.[3] A Solo exhibition of his works was in Leningrad (1991).

Vasily Golubev's painting style is original and individual, causing some association with the art of post-impressionism. Later, in the 1970s to 1980s, the latter style becomes more generalized and emotionally charged, expressionist, with elements of primitivism.[4] Among his works are such paintings as "A Village of Putiatyno"[5] (1957), "Horses"[6] (1962), "Spring Rain", "Ladozhka River"[7] (both 1963), "At the Fence", "A Summer"[8] (both 1964), "A Winter Sketch"[9] (1966), "Spring Brook"[10] (1968), "Soldier's Family"[11] (1969), "Light-Blue Day"[12] (1971), "Golden Russia",[13] "A Summer"[14] (both 1972), "Geologists"[15] (1976), "Green Spaces", "Autumn Harvest"[16] (both 1977), "Green Lake",[17] "Summer harvest", "In the Northern Land", "Light-Blue Spaces" (all 1980), and others.

Vasily Vasilievich Golubev died of heart disease on August 31, 1985, in Leningrad at the sixty-first year of life. In 2005 in the U.S. was published the first monograph devoted to the work of Vasily Golubev.[18] His paintings now reside in art museums and private collections in Russia,[19] Finland, Germane, England, Japan, France,[20] and the USA.[21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p.28.
  2. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 21, 359, 394-400, 403-406, 445.
  3. ↑ Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p.28.
  4. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.359.
  5. ↑ Exhibition of works by Vasily Vasilievich Golubev. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1991. - p.6.
  6. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.67.
  7. ↑ The Fine Arts of Leningrad. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1976. - p.17.
  8. ↑ The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965. - p.17.
  9. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.88.
  10. ↑ Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p.14.
  11. ↑ Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the Victory in Great Patriotic war. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. - p.6.
  12. ↑ Exhibition of works by Vasily Vasilievich Golubev. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1991. p.9.
  13. ↑ Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. - p. 12.
  14. ↑ Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p.14.
  15. ↑ The Portrait of Contemporary the Fifth Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1976. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. - p.8.
  16. ↑ Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1982. - p.13.
  17. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.143.
  18. ↑ Dr. Albert Kostenevich, Alexander D. Borovsky. Vasily Golubev. Master Russian Expressionist. - The Pushkin Group, 2005.
  19. ↑ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
  20. ↑ Saint-Petersbourg - Pont-Audemer. Dessins, Gravures, Sculptures et Tableaux du XX siecle du fonds de L' Union des Artistes de Saint-Petersbourg. - Pont-Audemer: 1994. - p.111.
  21. ↑ Dr. Albert Kostenevich, Alexander D. Borovsky. Vasily Golubev. Master Russian Expressionist. - The Pushkin Group, 2005.

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