Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshov

Background

Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshov was born on March 21, 1885, in the village of Nikolskoye, Tambovskaya oblast, Russian Federation.

Education

Nikolai Mikhailovich graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, he studied at the studio of Julien in Paris and at the school at the Academy of Arts, studied the technique of etching and monumental painting in the workshop of V.V. Mate and D.I. Kiplik.

Career

Nikolai Mikhailovich participated in exhibition activities since 1906. He was head of the literary and art department of the association "Makovets" (1922-1926 ) Member of the association of Revolution Artists (1932), chairman of the section of monumental painting of the Moscow organization of the Union of Artists (1933-1936).

Nikolai Mikhailovich taught at the Moscow Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops and Higher Artistic and Technical Institute (1920-30s). In the 1930s and 1940s, he completed a series of wall paintings, works in the technique of graffiti and mosaics in Moscow, Zlatoust, Tula, and Ulan-Ude. In 1935 Nikolai Mikhailovich took part in the organization of a workshop of monumental painting at the Academy of Architecture of the USSR.

Nikolai Mikhailovich performed mosaic works: "Girl with a Pigeon" (1957), "Komsomolska" (1962, both in the State Tretyakov Gallery) and others, created picturesque images of ancient ideographs: "Andrei Rublev and Daniil Cherny" (1960), "Dionysius" (1968 ), "Alimpiy Pechersky" (1970-1972).

Chernyshev's works are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, State Russian Museum, Borisoglebsk Art Gallery named after P.I. Sholokhov and other museums. In the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramskoi is represented by the picturesque Self-Portrait (1965), a series of drawings of nude models (1925-1926) and other works.

Works

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  • Technique of wall paintings

    1930

  • Fresco art in ancient Russia

    1954

  • The future of Russian painting

    1990

Membership

• Moscow Salon , Moscow City

  1911 - 1921

• Society of Moscow Artists , Moscow City

  1928 - 1929

• World of Art

  1921

• Union of Artists and Poets "Art is Life"

  1921