Nikolaĭ Stepanovich Barsamov
Mykola Stepanovych Barsamov (– 10 March 1976) was a Georgian-born Ukrainian Soviet artist, art critic and researcher specializing in the work of Ivan Aivazovsky.
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Nikolaĭ Stepanovich Barsamov
- Born
- 1892 · Tbilisi.
- Died
- 1976 · Feodosiia.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- painter · artist · art critic · museologist · art historian
- Fields
- visual arts · painting · museum
- Education
- Rostov Art School
- Honours
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 · Merited Cultural Worker of the Ukrainian SSR
- Languages
- Russian
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Nikolaĭ Stepanovich Barsamov studied at Rostov Art School. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is visual arts, painting and museum. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Merited Cultural Worker of the Ukrainian SSR.
• Name — Mykola Barsamov • Native Name — Микола Степанович • Native Name Lang — uk • Birth Name — Микола Барсамов Степанович Mykola Stepanovych Barsamov • Birthplace — Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire • Died — 10 March 1976 • Place of death — Feodosia, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR • Education — Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1917 • Occupation — * Artist • art critic • researcher Mykola Stepanovych Barsamov (– 10 March 1976) was a Georgian-born Ukrainian Soviet artist, art critic and researcher specializing in the work of Ivan Aivazovsky.
Biography
Mykola Stepanovych Barsamov was born on in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia). In 1913, he graduated from the Rostov School of Drawing. He studied in the private studio of Ilya Mashkov in Moscow. In 1913–1917, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, he worked as a drawing teacher in the city of Izyum, in Samara, and as a retouching artist in Moscow. Director of the Feodosia Historical and Archaeological Museum (1923–1936), Feodosia Art Gallery (1923–1962); scientific consultant of the Feodosia Art Gallery. I.K. Aivazovsky (1962–1976). He made a disproportionate contribution to increasing the funds of the art gallery, because the artist I.K. Aivazovsky left 49 of his works in Feodosia, and all of them were painted in the last years of the marine painter's life. Barsamov organized an art studio at the gallery in the 1930s and an art school in 1952. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the USSR (1969). Honorary citizen of Feodosia (1962). The figure of Barsamov became a link that connected the two generations of representatives of the Cimmerian Art School. Barsamov's students included: • Stepan Mamchich • Volodymyr Sokolov • Petro Stolyarenko • Mykola Shorin
Personal life
Barsamov was married to the art critic Sofia Barsamova (1900–1971).
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Tbilisi.
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Feodosiia.
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Art and books
Barsamov created a number of paintings on the heroic history of the Crimea, portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Paintings "The Battleship Potemkin" (1941), "Marines in Feodosia" (1942), "Reconstruction of the Feodosia Port" (1947), "Grapes and peaches" (1959), portraits, landscapes of the Crimea, etc. Books about Aivazovsky, including Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (several editions).
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