Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev (; 28 September 1930 – 10 June 1978) was a
Soviet
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Russian
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painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the
Leningrad Union of Artists, representative of the
Leningrad School of Painting, most known for his genre and still life paintings.
Biography
Pozdneev was born in Leningrad. His father taught mathematics at the Leningrad Institute of Railroad Transport Engineers.
In 1946 Pozdneev entered the famous
''Secondary Art School'' at the
''Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin'' where he studied with
Vladimir Gorb and Mikhail Bernshtein. In 1950, after graduating from the
''Secondary Art School'' Pozdneev was adopted for the first course of the painting department of ''
Repin Institute of Arts''. His teachers were Alexander Debler, Elena Tabakova,
Andrei Mylnikov,
Vladislav Anisovich.
In 1956 Nikolai Pozdneev graduated from the ''
Repin Institute of Arts'' in
Victor Oreshnikov art workshop. His graduation work was genre painting ''From the School'', dedicated to the theme of childhood, very popular in Soviet art of middle and end of 1950s (currently in the collection of Pskov Art Gallery). In one year with Pozdneev Institute graduates
Engels Kozlov
Engels Vasilievich Kozlov (; March 24, 1926, – November 20, 2007) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of Russia, lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of p ...
,
Yaroslav Krestovsky,
Piotr Nazarov,
Anatoli Nenartovich, Leonid Fokin, Vsevolod Petrov-Maslakov, Lenina Guley, and other young artists who later became famous Soviet painters and art educators.
Graduation picture had opened a series of Pozdneev's works of late 1950 – early 1960s dedicated of childhood theme. Among them some of his most known paintings
''Spring Day'' (1959), ''Natasha in Baby-carriage'' (1960), ''A Fall Day'' (1961).
After graduation, Pozdneev painted under contracts with the Leningrad branch of the Art Fund of the Russian Federation. At the same time he worked creatively, trying his hand at various genres. In 1956, he had participated in the exhibition of Leningrad artists. The very first showed his art works brought him from the ''
Academicheskaya Dacha'' attracted the attention of original snapping manner of paint and the special vision of color. He painted genre scenes, portraits in exterior and interior, landscapes, still lifes, sketches from the life. In 1957 Nikolai Pozdneev was admitted to the ''
Leningrad Union of Artists''.
All the subsequent bright, brief, and dramatic fate of Nikolai Pozdneev was closely associated with the picturesque surroundings of the Academic Dacha and Tver lands. He had lived and worked in village of Maliy Gorodok in the house of his wife Vera Vasilievna. In the nearby villages lived
Nikolai Timkov,
Maya Kopitseva
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (; 18 May 1924 – 6 June 2005) was a Soviet Russian still-life painter and an Honored Artist of the RSFSR who lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg. She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artis ...
, Alexander Romanichev,
Vecheslav Zagonek,
Anatoli Vasiliev,
Anatoli Levitin
Anatoli Pavlovich Levitin (; July 16, 1922 – October 11, 2018) was a Soviet Russian painter and art educator, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union o ...
,
Dmitry Maevsky
Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky (; 17 May 1917, in Petrograd, Russian Empire – 23 July 1992, in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the ...
, Vladimir Tokarev, and many other artists from the Leningrad and Moscow.
In 1960s and 1970s life of Nikolai Pozdneev, likes many other artists, clearly divided into two seasons: a city period from a late fall through April, and countryside period from April to November. Life in the city consisted of putting the customer and works to find new art contracts, Art Show, Artists' Union, contacts with friends and neighbours of the city art studio. Summer time at first of all is creativity, paint from the life.
Living and working at the
"Academichka", Nikolai Pozdneev not only painted many of his best works, but also formed his unique individual manner thanks which his works become a phenomenon in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
Pictures painted in the late 1950s – the first half of 1960 pushed Pozdneev of the leading painters of Leningrad. Among them such works as ''A Spring'' (1957), ''In the spring'', ''A Bakery'', ''Across the river'', ''Spring sketch'' (all 1958), ''Mushrooms. Still Life'', ''A Spring'', ''Kisharino village'',
''A Spring Day'', ''In summer at reading'' (all 1959), ''A Summer'', ''Natasha in baby-carriage'', ''Northern Bazaar'', ''A House at the road'', ''Grandmother's House'', ''Two Old Ladies'' (all 1960), ''A Summer'', ''Already spring'', ''A Porch'', ''Autumn day'' (all 1961), ''Baskets'' (1962), ''Defoliation'' (1963), ''Still Life in grass'', ''Shelf'', ''Bullfinchs'', ''Smoked vobla'', ''At the lawn'', ''At the aunt Sasha'', ''Rowan-tree'' (all 1964), ''Shelf'' (1966), and others.
In 1960-1970s Pozdneev trips to Kandalaksha, Ural Region along the banks of Chusovaya River and Vyatka River, working in the houses of artistic creation in
''Goryachy Klyuch'', ''
Staraya Ladoga
Staraya Ladoga ( rus, Ста́рая Ла́дога, p=ˈstarəjə ˈladəɡə, r=Stáraya Ládoga, t=Old Ladoga), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the ...
'', ''
Academicheskaya Dacha''. In 1967 Pozdneev was awarded the Medal of All-Union Art Exhibition, devoted to 50th Anniversary of Soviet state. In the late 1960s and 1970s artist created the works ''Before the fishing season'', ''At the kitchen'', ''Red Stones'' (all 1967), ''In Art Studio'', ''Tea Time'' (both 1969), ''Still Life with Onions'', ''Still Life with Vegetables'' (1971), ''Houses'' (1972), ''Winter Landscape'' (1975), ''Barents Sea'', ''On the hill (weather station)''
[ ''Выставка произведений ленинградских художников, посвящённая 60-летию Великого Октября.'' Л., Художник РСФСР, 1982. С.19.] (both 1977), and others.
Nikolai Pozdneev died on 10 June 1978 in Leningrad in an accident at age 47. His paintings reside in the
Russian Museum
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, in other museums and private collections in Russia, USA, France, Japan, and other countries.
Principal exhibitions
*
1957
Events January
* January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.
* January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
* January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''1917–1957. Leningrad Artist's works of Art Exhibition''
*
1957
Events January
* January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.
* January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
* January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
(
Moscow
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):
''All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution''
*
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events January
* Janu ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960''
*
1961
Events January
* January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union.
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961''
*
1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
Events January
* January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962''
*
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition''
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1965''
*
1967
Events January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of ...
(
Moscow
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):
''Soviet Russia the Third National Art Exhibition of 1967''
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''Our Contemporary Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1971''
*
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''By Native Country Art Exhibition dedicated to 50th Anniversary of USSR''
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975''
*
1976
Events January
* January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
(
Moscow
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):
''The Fine Arts of Leningrad''
*
1977
Events January
* January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...
(
Leningrad
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):
''Art belongs to the people. Anniversary Exhibition of Leningrad artists dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Great October Revolution of 1917''
* 1994 (
Saint Petersburg
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):
''Paintings of 1950-1980s by the Leningrad School artists''
* 1994 (
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
):
''Etude in creativity of the Leningrad School's artists''
* 1995 (
Saint Petersburg
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):
''Lyrical motifs in postwar Leningrad painting''
* 1996 (
Saint Petersburg
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):
''Paintings of 1940-1990s. The Leningrad School''
* 1997 (
Saint Petersburg
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):
"Still life in Painting of 1950-1990s. The Leningrad School"
See also
*
Spring Day (painting)
*
Fine Art of Leningrad
*
Leningrad School of Painting
*
List of Russian artists
This is a list of Russian artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Rus ...
*
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
*
Academicheskaya Dacha
References
Bibliography
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External links
''Art works of Nikolai Pozdneev in ARKA Fine Art Gallery''*
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1930 births
1978 deaths
Painters from Saint Petersburg
Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
Socialist realist artists
Leningrad School artists
Leningrad Secondary Art School alumni
Repin Institute of Arts alumni
20th-century Russian male artists