DOI issue:
No. 281 (August 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0204
Studio- Talk
Goldinger, N. Zimaroff and others. Finally mention artist who has drawn inspiration from distant climes,
should be made of the sculptures of S. Erzya, J. such as Bauer, for example, with his etchings
Koort, and J. Efimoff, as well as the dry-points and and water-colours full of mystery and fantasy ;
linoleum prints of P. Pavlinoff. Philip Zilcken, at once painter, etcher, and shrewd
- art critic, and Legras, who died a little while ago
With the death of Vassili Ivanovitch Surikoff, who in the very fulness of life—he was only 51. It is
died here a few weeks ago, Russian art has lost one now some years since Legras came to Laren (where
of its most brilliant stars. The deceased painter, these notes are written) and settled down in this
who was born in Siberia in 1848, came from an old village of painters par excellence. He lived in a villa
Cossack family which settled in the district of Kras- of good modern design which he built for himself,
noyarsk some centuries ago, and in his whole being as and here he enjoyed the pleasures of family life,
well as his talent one could discern traces of the deep but now, alas ! he is no more, and the big house is
earnestness and virile strength of Siberian Nature, empty. His canvases are to be found in many
After studying at the Academy in Petrograd Surikoff places, for his admirers were numerous, but quite
in the eighties of last century began that series of recently the public were able to see at the
large historioalj paintings which made his name Municipal Museum in Amsterdam a collection
famous and earned for him a leading position in representing the different periods of his career,
the hierarchy of Russian art.
If in general it is difficult to
define in what precisely the
national element in plastic
art consists, yet in presence
of Surikoff's masterpieces
one discerns immediately
their national character and
their extraordinary histcric
import. This is true alike
of the tragic atmosphere of
The Execution of the Streltsi,
of the deeply pathetic ex-
pression of Menshikoff in
Exile and of the intense
pathos of the Boyarin Moro-
zova in which the great pic-
torial talent of the deceased
artist, his perfect knowledge
of Russian psychology, and
his by no means theatrical
power of dramatic expression
were triumphantly asserted.
His later works fell short
of these, and in this respect
he shared the fate of many
Russian artists who having
spontaneously attained a
certain height are unable to
maintain it for long. P. E.
AMSTERDAM.—
Holland has no
" Salon des Ori-
^ entalistes" like
Paris, but nevertheless she
can boast of more than one "a street in Algiers" by w. legras
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Goldinger, N. Zimaroff and others. Finally mention artist who has drawn inspiration from distant climes,
should be made of the sculptures of S. Erzya, J. such as Bauer, for example, with his etchings
Koort, and J. Efimoff, as well as the dry-points and and water-colours full of mystery and fantasy ;
linoleum prints of P. Pavlinoff. Philip Zilcken, at once painter, etcher, and shrewd
- art critic, and Legras, who died a little while ago
With the death of Vassili Ivanovitch Surikoff, who in the very fulness of life—he was only 51. It is
died here a few weeks ago, Russian art has lost one now some years since Legras came to Laren (where
of its most brilliant stars. The deceased painter, these notes are written) and settled down in this
who was born in Siberia in 1848, came from an old village of painters par excellence. He lived in a villa
Cossack family which settled in the district of Kras- of good modern design which he built for himself,
noyarsk some centuries ago, and in his whole being as and here he enjoyed the pleasures of family life,
well as his talent one could discern traces of the deep but now, alas ! he is no more, and the big house is
earnestness and virile strength of Siberian Nature, empty. His canvases are to be found in many
After studying at the Academy in Petrograd Surikoff places, for his admirers were numerous, but quite
in the eighties of last century began that series of recently the public were able to see at the
large historioalj paintings which made his name Municipal Museum in Amsterdam a collection
famous and earned for him a leading position in representing the different periods of his career,
the hierarchy of Russian art.
If in general it is difficult to
define in what precisely the
national element in plastic
art consists, yet in presence
of Surikoff's masterpieces
one discerns immediately
their national character and
their extraordinary histcric
import. This is true alike
of the tragic atmosphere of
The Execution of the Streltsi,
of the deeply pathetic ex-
pression of Menshikoff in
Exile and of the intense
pathos of the Boyarin Moro-
zova in which the great pic-
torial talent of the deceased
artist, his perfect knowledge
of Russian psychology, and
his by no means theatrical
power of dramatic expression
were triumphantly asserted.
His later works fell short
of these, and in this respect
he shared the fate of many
Russian artists who having
spontaneously attained a
certain height are unable to
maintain it for long. P. E.
AMSTERDAM.—
Holland has no
" Salon des Ori-
^ entalistes" like
Paris, but nevertheless she
can boast of more than one "a street in Algiers" by w. legras
■ 184