Varvara Baruzdina

Varvara Baruzdina
Varvara Baruzdina (1930s)
Born1862 (1862)
Krasny Kholm, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1941 (1942)
Pushkin near Leningrad, Soviet Union
EducationPavel Chistyakov
Known forPainting

Varvara Matveevna Baruzdina (Russian: Варвара Матвеевна Баруздина; 1862, Krasny Kholm – 1941, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter during the Belle Époque, active in St. Petersburg (later Leningrad) and Tsarskoye Selo. The niece and close student to fellow painter Pavel Chistyakov, she was primarily known for portraits and genre pictures.

Biography

Her father was a village craftsman. In 1875, she moved to Saint Petersburg to live with her uncle, the painter Pavel Chistyakov, who provided her first drawing lessons.[1] Five years later, she entered the Imperial Academy of Arts where she became his formal student. While there, she was awarded a silver medal and graduated in 1885.[2]

She began participating in exhibitions after 1888; notably those of the Academy (until 1916), the Female Art Circle (1889) and the Moscow Art Lovers Society (1895-1896).[2] Her painting, The Nun, was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov in 1896. Another painting, Separated, was shown at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. Along with numerous other Russian paintings, it was "lost" there and not recovered for many years.[3][4]

In the 1920s, after spending some time in Crimea, she moved into Chistyakov's house in the Pushkin District, where she wrote memoirs of his life and attracted a circle of students who wanted to be taught by his methods.[1]

She died in Pushkin during the German invasion and siege of Leningrad, aged nearly eighty; friends buried her in the garden of the Chistyakovs' house.[5] The memoirs were published in 1953.

The majority of Baruzdina's works is owned by the Museum of the Academy of Arts, and is housed in the Chistyakov Museum in Pushkin; that aside, there is only a small number of painting and drawings available, with The Nun of 1893, in the Tretyakov Gallery,[6] The Gradma[7] of 1890, in the Russian Museum from 1925[8], and Maximilian Voloshin of 1916, in the Literature Museum, Moscow,[9] being the most notable.[10][11] An oil portrait of Baruzdina, by Vasily Savinsky, signed and dated 1935, is in the Tretyakov Gallery.[12][13][14]

References

  1. 1 2 Brief biography // Studiai
  2. 1 2 Brief biography Archived 2016-09-24 at the Wayback Machine // RusArtNet
  3. ↑ "Separated and ‘lost’ for 103 years" Archived 2016-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Articles / Texticles
  4. ↑ Churilova 2007, p. 137.
  5. ↑ Churilova 2007, p. 139.
  6. ↑ Portrayal of Anna Pavlovna Chistyakova (née Naydyonova; 1802–1890), the mother of Pavel Chistyakov and the maternal grandmother of Baruzdina herself.
  7. ↑ Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, ed. (2014). Живопись. Вторая половина XIX века : А — И (collection catalog). Государственный Русский музей. Живопись XVIII–XX века (in Russian). Vol. 5. Saint Petersburg: Palace Editions. p. 26, cat. no. 81. ISBN 978-5-93332-507-9. OCLC 41387709.
  8. ↑ Voloshin, Maximilian A. (2008). Kupchenko, Vladimir P. [in Russian] and Lavrov, Aleksandr V. [in Russian] (eds.). Дневники 1891—1932. Автобиографии. Анкеты. Воспоминания. Собрание сочинений (in Russian). Vol. 7, pt. 2. Moscow: Ellis Lak. pp. 238, 255, 573; see the index at p. 676. ISBN 978-5-902152-47-7.
  9. ↑ Milner, John (1993). A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420–1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 66. ISBN 1-85149-182-1. OCLC 29787870.
  10. ↑ Churilova 2007, p. 216.
  11. ↑ Voltsenburg, Oskar E. [in Russian]; et al., eds. (1970). "Баруздина, Варвара Матвеевна" (PDF). Художники народов СССР (in Russian). Vol. 1. Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 296.
  12. ↑ Serova, Genrietta G. (1983). В. Е. Савинский — художник и педагог (in Russian). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noye Iskusstvo. p. 65. OCLC 11358678.
  13. ↑ Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, ed. (2005). Живопись конца XIX — начала XX века (collection catalog). Государственная Третьяковская галерея : каталог собрания. Живопись XVIII–XX веков (in Russian). Vol. 5. Moscow: Skanrus. p. 308, cat. no. 1114. ISBN 5-93221-089-3. OCLC 773947243.

Further reading

  • Chistyakov, Pavel P.; et al. (1953). Belyutin, Eliy M. and Moleva, Nina M. [in Russian] (eds.). П. П. Чистяков, 1832—1919. Письма, записные книжки, воспоминания (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 484–493, for Baruzdina's memoirs on Pavel Chistyakov; see the index at p. 579. OCLC 8319912.
  • Churilova, Yelena B. (2007). «...Прочесть, ...припоминая». П. П. Чистяков в Царском Селе (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Sibirskiy Vek. pp. 133–142, for an account of Baruzdina; see also pp. 215–216 and the index at p. 287. ISBN 978-5-902238-39-3. OCLC 266987752.
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