"Here lived a genius" - A brilliant Artist in search of the Secrets of the Russian Soul
In Moscow, an exhibition opened for the centenary of the famous Soviet and Russian artist Boris Shcherbakov. "Here lived a genius"...", as the exhibition is called, runs from September to November, 22nd 2016. As one of the founders of socialist realism, Boris storied and formed the most important method of art in the USSR.
Boris Shcherbakov deserves the love of people because of his subtle ability to bring the beauty of the Russian country to the screen. His landscapes nowadays admire visitors in many museums of the world. His works extent from Washington to Tokyo. They are present in private collections, as well as in the White House and the US Congress.
Boris Shcherbakov was born in 1916 in the family of the artist Valentin Shcherbakova, a pupil of Ilja Repin. The child was permeated by the love of painting from childhood onwards, he observed his father at work early. As a 17-year-old, he attended the Old Russian Academy of Arts, where he soon came to the fore due to his talent. An important stage in the biography of Shcherbakov was the Great Patriotic War. He passed through, but he did not loose his sensual, refined nature.
The main genre of the master of the brush was always the landscape. He has worked on a series of landscapes for twenty years, connected with the lives of the greatest Russian writers, such as Turgenev, Lermontov, Tolstoy, and Pushkin. At the exhibition opened in Moscow famous paintings, for example, "Tolstoy v Jasnoj Poljane", "Orlovskie dali. Gretschiha zvetet” and so on can be seen.
The greatest merit of Shcherbakov as an artist is that he has portrayed many of the greatest Russian writers and the beauty of his homeland for the Russian people. Actually, before the creation of the artworks, the artist personally gave himself the honor to visit the places where the personalities of the art lived and worked.
Shcherbakov's work has earned recognition and rewarded with many awards. In 1952, he was honored with the Stalin Prize of the Third Degree and in 1986, he was awarded the highest title as a folk artist. Shcherbakov had a long, difficult but happy life, full of creativity and inspiration. He died on July 25th, 1995 and is buried next to his father.
