Evgenia Antipova

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (Russian: Евге́ния Петро́вна Анти́пова; 19 October 1917 – 27 January 2009) was a Russian Soviet painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher. She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists and the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation.[1] Antipova lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg and is regarded as one of main representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.[2]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Petrovna and the family name is Antipova.
Evgenia Petrovna Antipova
Born(1917-10-19)19 October 1917
Toropets, Pskov Governorate, Russia
Died27 January 2009(2009-01-27) (aged 91)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
EducationRepin Institute of Arts
Known forPainting
MovementSocialist realism, Leningrad School of Painting

Biography

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was born on 19 October 1917 in Toropets. Her father was a railway office worker. Antipova lived with her parents in Samara on the Volga River until 1928. While living there, she began working in an artistic studio under the direction of Pavel Krasnov. In 1935, Antipova moved to Leningrad, and in 1936 she began studying at the Leningrad Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts, where she stayed until 1939. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb.

In 1939 Antipova entered the painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (since 1944 named after Ilia Repin), where she studied with Semion Abugov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Gleb Savinov, and Vladimir Malagis.[3] Also in 1939, Antipova first participated in the All-Union Youth Artistic Exhibition in Moscow, presenting her sketch, Valery Chkalov among young people. It was printed in an art magazine Young Artist later that year.

At the start of Operation Barbarossa, Antipova was participating in a summer program in Western Ukraine, but this prompted her return to Leningrad. On 18 July 1941 Antipova married Jacov Lukash, a fourth-year student of the department of monumental painting. Lukash was drafted into the Red Army, and died while away in May 1942. Antipova remained in blockaded Leningrad until the beginning of 1942. In February 1942, she was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where she lived and worked until the end of the war.[4]

In 1945, Antipova returned to Leningrad, and in 1950 she graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Boris Ioganson's personal art studio (the former studio of Alexander Osmerkin). Her graduate work was a painting called Andrey Zhdanov visits the Palace of Young Pioneers in Leningrad.[5]

Antipova's Work

From 1950–1956, Antipova taught painting and composition at Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad and participated in art exhibitions.[6] In 1953, she was accepted into the Leningrad Union of Artists.[7] Antipova painted genre and decorative compositions, portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings. She worked in oils and watercolours. Among her favourite themes were apple orchards and Crimean landscapes.

Some of her paintings from the 1950s and early 1960s include Practical exercises[8] (1953), Gurzuf in the morning, A Sea is in Gurzufe[9] (both 1954), Still life[10] (1957), On a Summer Residence[11] (1958), At the Peter and Paul Fortress, Taffies, Wild Flower Bouquet[12] (all 1960), Apple tree[13] (1962), Early breakfast[14] (1963), and A Girl in the garden[15] (1964). Antipova focused on expressing of her individual perspective in her works, rather than wider themes.

In the 1960s, Antipova created a series of portraits, most notably: A Girl from Pereslavl and Waitress (both 1964). From the end of the 1960s, her favored genres were still life and landscape. She had a notable interest in the transmission of color, light, and air. Among her most well-known works of this period are City courtyard in Gavan,[16] Sonth Still Life,[17] Grape Arbor,[18] Romantic landscape,[19] A Window. Nasturtiums (all 1968), Olives-trees[20] (1969), Tulips on a window[18] (1970), Pine-trees, On the Vasilievskiy island[21] (both 1973), Still life in the garden. A Spring (1974), Still life with Cornflowers and bread[22] (1975), Balcony[23] (1977), Still life with a Red Bottle[24] (1979), «Sunny Day» (1982), Still life with a Spanish Jug (1985), Bird cherry tree in flower[25] (1989), and Blooming Little Apple-tree (1997). In the still lifes, Antipova notably prefers the open composition. This can be seen in the works: A Midday (1982) and Still Life. Flowering willow, Calla lilies, Daffodils[26] (1984). A primary theme is the perfect world in which man can find harmony with nature. She continued to make art with this theme until her death.

Evgenia Antipova had the personal exhibitions in Leningrad — Saint Petersburg in 1967, 1988, 1999, along with her husband, an artist Victor Teterin, and in 2007. In 1989–1992 paintings by Antipova exhibited at the fine art auctions and the exhibitions of Russian paintings, L 'École de Leningrad in France.[27][28] She died on 27 January 2009 in Saint Petersburg, aged 91. Her paintings reside in the State Russian Museum,[21] and in many art museums and private collections in Russia,[29][30] France,[31] Germany, USA, England[32] and around the world.

See also

References
  1. Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. P.7.
  2. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 15, 20, 21, 24, 356, 388–397, 399, 400, 403–407, 439, 442, 445.
  3. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.356.
  4. "Ленинградский художник Антипова Евгения Петровна (artist Antipova Evgeniya Petrovna)". Socialist Realism. Kiev club of collectors.
  5. Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. P.61-62.
  6. The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. P.340.
  7. Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. P.7.
  8. Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1954 года. Каталог. Л., Изогиз, 1954. С.7.
  9. Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1955 года. Каталог. Л., ЛССХ, 1956. С.7, 27.
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  11. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1961. С.8.
  12. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1963. С.7.
  13. Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. — Л: Художник РСФСР, 1962. — C.7.
  14. Каталог весенней выставки произведений ленинградских художников 1965 года. Л, Художник РСФСР, 1970. C.7.
  15. Ленинград. Зональная выставка 1964 года. Каталог. Л, Художник РСФСР, 1965. C.8.
  16. Петербург — Петроград — Ленинград в произведениях русских и советских художников. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980. С.124.
  17. Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1976. C.14.
  18. По родной стране. Выставка произведений художников Ленинграда. 50 Летию образования СССР посвящается. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1974. C.9.
  19. Художники круга 11-ти. Из коллекции Николая Кононихина. СПб, 2001. С.3.
  20. Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1969 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970. C.7.
  21. Связь времен. 1932–1997. Художники — члены Санкт-Петербургского Союза художников России. Каталог выставки. СПб., 1997. С.282.
  22. Наш современник. Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1975 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980. C.11.
  23. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников, посвященная 60-летию Великого Октября. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1982. C.11.
  24. Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1980 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. C.9.
  25. Выставка произведений 26 ленинградских и московских художников. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1990. C.47.
  26. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.146.
  27. Peinture Russe. Catalogue. Paris, Drouot Richelieu. 1991, 26 April. Р.7,18–19.
  28. Charmes Russes. Catalogue. Paris, Drouot Richelieu. 1991, 15 Mai 1991. Р.64.
  29. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
  30. Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.1. М., Искусство, 1970. C.165.
  31. L' École de Leningrad. Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 11 June 1990. – p.136-137.
  32. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.6-7.

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