Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (russian: Борис Владимирович Иогансон, – 25 February 1973) also commonly known as B. V. Johanson, was a Russian and

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painter and educator.

Biography

Ioganson was born on in

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. His father's Swedish ancestors Russified the surname "Johansson" into "Ioganson". Ioganson attended the Moscow School of Art, and studied under

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, Kasatkin and Malyutin. He was a member of the Society of Young Artists, where he argued for a complete transference of Russian art to Constructivism. He soon abandoned this cause and took up easel painting. In 1922, he helped found the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, and abruptly transferred into the realm of

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. Ioganson's work was inspired by that of Repin, that is exhibiting certain features of

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, and was often narrative in nature. Possibly his best-known work was "Interrogation of the Communists" a piece thoroughly representative of Socialist Realism but with piercing elements of

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, in addition to an exploitation of some elements of

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. A sense of theatricality is present in his paintings, probably due to his studies of theater design under Korovin. He died on 25 February 1973.

Pupils

Some graduates of Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (now known as St. Petersburg Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) studied at the Boris Ioganson Workshop (active from 1930 to 1950s) in Moscow. His notable students included Alexey Eriomin, Nikolai Baskakov, Valery Vatenin, Nina Veselova, Maya Kopitseva, Oleg Lomakin, Valentina Monakhova, Nikolai Mukho, Anatoli Nenartovich, Mikhail Natarevich, Semion Rotnitsky, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Knarik Vardanyan, and Felix Lembersky.

Bibliography

* ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print, 2007. - p. 447. , .

References

* ''A History of Russian Painting, Alan Bird'' 1893 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Artists from Moscow Russian male painters Russian people of Swedish descent Stalin Prize winners Socialist realist artists Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts Heroes of Socialist Labour Soviet painters {{Russia-painter-stub