Kuzma
Sergeyevich PETROV-VODKIN
1878-1939
Painter, graphic artist and writer
Portrait of a Young Boy. 1913.
Oil on canvas, 80 x 64. Perm Art Museum.
Destruction (Hurricane).
Sketch of composition. 1914.
Graphite pencil and watercolor on paper, 26,3 x
35,3. The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
The Virgin of Tender Emotion for
Wicked Hearts. 1914-1915.
Oil on canvas, 100,2 x 110. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Still Life in Pink . 1918.
Oil on canvas, 57,5 x 71. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
A Small Dog. 1919.
Oil on canvas, 64 x 50. The I.Brodsky Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Death of the Commissar. 1923.
Oil on canvas, 196 x 248. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Earthquake in the Crimea. 1927-1928.
Oil on canvas, 95,5 x 120. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Family of a Military Leader (Study). 1936.
Oil on canvas, 75,5 x 61. The Tula Art Museum.
Portrait of
N.A. (Portrait of a Woman). Undated.
Oil on canvas, 47,5 x 37. The Kursk Art Museum.
Studied at the School of Drawing and Painting, Samara (1893-1895) under Burov, the Central Stieglitz School (1895-1897), MUZhVZ (Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) (1897-1904) under Kassatkin and Serov, Aschbe’s studio, Munich (1901), and in Paris (1905-1908).
Traveled to Italy, Greece, France and Africa.
From 1906 participated in exhibitions including Salon d’Automne, Salon, SRKh [Union of Russian Artists], The Golden Fleece, Union of Youth, World of Art.
Became leading figure among Petrograd Symbolists.
Taught at the Yelizaveta Zvantseva’s school, St. Petersburg in 1910-1915, the SVOMAS (Free Workshops), Petrograd in 1918-1921, and the Academy of Arts in 1921-1933.
Member of Four Arts group from 1925.
During 1920s developed a form of mystical realism often with revolutionary subject-matter.
Wrote The Woman of Samarkand, Khlynovsk and Prostranstvo Evklida (Euclid’s Space).