In order to receive the education, V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya moved to Kiev, where he lived with his elder brother Alexander and studied in the Vladimir Cadet Corps from 1885 to 1889.
College/University
Gallery of Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya
Kamergerskiy Pereulok, 2, Moscow City, Russian Federation, 125009
From 1889 to 1896, Byalynitsky-Birulya studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the mentorship of the Wanderers (Peredvizhniki) Illarion Pryanishnikov, Sergei Korovin, Vasily Polenov, and Nikolai Nevrev.
Gallery of Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya
From 1885 to 1889, Byalynitsky-Birulya studied at the Kiev Drawing School of Nikolai Murashko who was a well-known teacher and artist at the time.
Career
Gallery of Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya
Achievements
37, Leninskaja Street, Mogilev region, Belarus
The Art Museum of Byalynitsky-Birulya was opened in the monument of architecture of the XVII century, in the stone two-storey manor with a mansard in Mogilev in 1970.
Membership
Awards
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
In 1943, for outstanding creative achievements, Byalynitsky-Birulya was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
The Art Museum of Byalynitsky-Birulya was opened in the monument of architecture of the XVII century, in the stone two-storey manor with a mansard in Mogilev in 1970.
In order to receive the education, V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya moved to Kiev, where he lived with his elder brother Alexander and studied in the Vladimir Cadet Corps from 1885 to 1889.
Kamergerskiy Pereulok, 2, Moscow City, Russian Federation, 125009
From 1889 to 1896, Byalynitsky-Birulya studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the mentorship of the Wanderers (Peredvizhniki) Illarion Pryanishnikov, Sergei Korovin, Vasily Polenov, and Nikolai Nevrev.
Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya was a well-known Belarusian artist of impressionistic landscape with a unique talent of a lyricist, who succeeded to create on the basis of lyrical landscape so-called memorial landscape, which was dedicated to the places connected with life and activity of outstanding people.
Background
Vitold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birulya was born on February 12, 1872, in the village of Krynki, Mogilev region, the Russian Empire (now Belarus).
The artist has recalled his childhood years: "My father served as a lessee, later - in the Dnieper's shipping company. Going to voyages along the Dniepr, Pripyat, Soji rivers, he often took me with him. It was the greatest happiness and joy for me, because it was then, in those trips, that I had discovered the unparalleled nature of my native Belarus."
Education
In order to receive the education, V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya moved to Kiev, where he lived with his elder brother Alexander and studied in the Vladimir Cadet Corps. At the same time, from 1885 to 1889, Byalynitsky-Birulya studied at the Kiev Drawing School of Nikolai Murashko who was a well-known teacher and artist at the time. There, Byalynitsky-Birulya has taken his first steps in drawing and painting and acquired the basic knowledge of arts. Soon after the end of his studies at the school in 1889, the artist went to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture under the mentorship of the Wanderers (Peredvizhniki) Illarion Pryanishnikov, Sergei Korovin, Vasily Polenov, and Nikolai Nevrev, graduating in 1896.
The Wanderers, a group of Russian realist artists, who evolved into the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870, was highly inspirational for Byalynitsky-Birulya and had a considerable impact on the formation of the artist's taste and artistic style. Byalynitsky-Birulya was a diligent and determined student and, following his successful graduation, he began to attract the attention of other artists and eminent collectors.
From 1892, Byalynitsky-Birulya began to exhibit his works constantly on the exhibitions of the Moscow Art Lovers Association and the Moscow Association of Artists. After the mobile exhibition of 1904, he was elected a member of the Association.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Byalynitsky-Birulya traveled a lot throughout Europe: Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and Norway. In 1917-1920, he paid much attention to the social-cultural and educational work: he organized an exhibition of famous Russian artists in Tver, an art school for peasant children at the summer residence, and with other thirteen artists he founded the AARR (the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia).
V. Byalynitsky-Birulya created a new kind of landscape - the memorial landscape. In 1936-1937, he wrote a series of paintings devoted to Pushkin`s places to commemorate the centenary of the death of the great Russian poet: Mikhailovsk village, the house of nanny Arina Rodionovna, a park with a lane with a bench on which the poet loved to sit.
During his career, he was also creating industrial landscape: in 1934-1938, he traveled to the site of the construction of Azovstal, to the Arctic Circle (Kola Peninsula) while preparing for the exhibition "The Industry of Socialism". In his sketches, he reflected the nature of Harbin, Kirovsk, the Kirov apatite mines, and several other places.
A unique cycle of seascapes deserves special attention. In his specific impressionistic manner, Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya depicted the beauty of severe northern landscapes and soft shapes of catching trawlers and boats with cold shades of water and silvery snow: "The Barents Sea", "A Pomorie Village", "Pomorie".
In 1940, he created his exceptionally lyric works: "An Evening of Young May", "In the Hour of Silence", "Marigold Bloomed Out". During the Great Patriotic War, V. Byalynitsky-Birulya created a dramatic composition "Following in the Tracks of the Fascist Barbarians", 1942; the canvas "The House of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Klin", 1942; landscape "Thoughtful Days of Autumn", 1942-1943.
For the exhibition "Masterpieces of Russian Architecture in the Works of Art", 1944, he presented a series of works created after visiting the neighbourhood of Arkhangelsk: the monuments of ancient wooden architecture surrounded by nature of the North.
In the spring of 1947, Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya with his wife visited the homeland - Belarus. He made dozens of sketches, later processed into a series of paintings about Belarus: "Surroundings of Minsk"; "Belaya Dacha", "Blooming Apple Trees", "Sennitsa". Patriotic feelings and poetic perception of the native land were reflected in the canvas "New Bloom of Spring", 1947. The works represented in the personal exhibition of the artist in 1947 in Moscow were also full of cheerfulness: "Belarusian Birches Turned Green", "New bloom of Spring", "Twilight of Blooming May".
Byalynitsky-Birulya died on June 18, 1957, on his dacha "Seagull" in Moscow at the age of eighty-five. He was buried at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
Mikhailovsk village. The house of Pushkin's nanny, Arina Rodionovna
1936
March
1913
Evening in Tundra
1893
Oh, mournful season that delights the eyes!
Flood
The House of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Klin
1942
Spring is Сoming
1957
Landscape
Autumn. The arbor
1905
Autumn Landscape
1910
March Twilight
1903
Fast River
1908
Violets
1937
Twilight of Blooming May
1943
Forest River in Winter
Boats
1913
The Beginning of Spring
1912
Ice Drift
Blue Spring
Gray Day
Early Spring
Silent Autumn
1917
Steppe River in Spring
1899
Silence
From the Surroundings of Pyatigorsk
1892
March Night
1910
Winter Sleep
1911
Near the Mill
1910
Early Spring
1902
Spring is coming
The Lake Udomlya
1911
Thawing Waters. Gull. Etude.
1927
Silent Fields
1911
Blooming Garden
1907
Belarus. The Beginning of Summer
1947
Views
Being a successor of the democratic traditions of Russian art, V.K. Byalynitsky-Birulya recreated a new trend in landscape painting and sought to convey the beauty and the state of nature in different seasons in his own way. He was a master of lyrical landscape and a committed follower of realism movement in his art which demonstrates extraordinary freshness, devotional attitude to mother nature, and poetic quality. There are many Byalynitsky-Birulya's significant works that are inextricably linked with the nature of his native Belarus as he was extremely impressed by it as a child. The ability to convey subtle changes in the state of nature was attained as a result of an incessant study of nature and persistent development of his artistry. Hence the freshness of his works and the genuine, candid reaction that they evoke. Byalynitsky-Birulya's peaceful, harmonious landscapes infused with a sophisticated colour palette represent the artist's thoughtful reflections on the eternity and grandeur of nature.
Quotations:
"Painters should listen to music as much as possible and as often as possible, it can teach a lot, and the artist can get a lot for his creativity and inspiration from the great works of musical art."
Membership
In 1904, Byalynitsky-Birulya became a member of the Itinerants Association, and in 1908, he was awarded the title of the academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Subsequently, in 1947, Byalynitsky-Birulya was admitted to the Academy of Arts. During his career, he was also a member of the Union of Russian Artists.
Interests
Hunting
Connections
During his life, Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya was married three times. His first wife was Olga Ivanovna Suvirov, who was the owner of house number 10 in Vorotnikovsky Lane. The couple gave birth to one daughter, Lubov, who was an actress but eventually died drowned in the lake Udomlya.
After the death of his first wife in 1921, Byalynitsky-Birulya married Nina Alekseevna. However, the couple got divorced, and he married for the third time. His third wife's name was Elena Alekseevna.