Pavel Dmitrievich Shmarov

Background

Pavel Dmitrievich Shmarov was born on September 10, 1874 in Voronezh, Russian Empire (now Russian Federation) to the family of the crew workshop master (according to other sources - to a peasant family).

Education

In 1886-1890 Pavel Dmitrievich studied at the Voronezh district school and at the same time took private drawing lessons from L.G. Soloviev. In 1894 he entered the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, studied in the workshop of I.E. Repin. He continued his education in Europe.

Career

In 1898 Pavel Dmitrievich received the first prize of the Society for the Promotion of Arts for the painting "Asphalt Workers". In 1899 he was awarded the gold medal and the right to a pensioner trip abroad for the painting "Woe to the Vanquished" and in 1900-1902 he visited Vienna, Rome, Florence, Munich, Paris.

In 1904 Pavel Dmitrievich traveled with B.M. Kustodiev in Spain. Upon returning, he lived in Saint Petersburg. In 1912, at the proposal of I.E. Repin and V.A. Beklemishev, he was nominated for the title of academician, however, members of the Academy of Arts voted against and Pavel Dmitrievich became an academician only when he was renominated in 1916.

Pavel Dmitrievich exhibited his works at the exhibitions of the Moscow Art Lovers Union (1898, 1899), the Partnership of Artists (1915), Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions (1914, 1915, 1916, 1917).

During the First World War Pavel Dmitrievich went to the front, where he painted 30 drawings on the themes of war, which were then published in the magazines Argus, Ogonyok, Niva. In 1922, exhibited at the 16th exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists.

In 1923 Pavel Dmitrievich emigrated from Russia. He spent about two years in Rome and at the end of 1924 settled in Paris. The rest of his life he lived and worked in Paris. His first solo exhibition in France took place in 1928 at the Paris Charpentier Gallery, and one of the paintings on it - "Bathing" - was acquired by the Luxembourg Museum.

Pavel Dmitrievich participated in the Spring Salons (1933, 1936) and the Salon of the Society of French Artists (until 1939), in exhibitions of Russian art in Brussels (1928), Belgrade (1930), Berlin (1930), Paris (1931 and 1932) and Prague (1935). Since 1933 he was a member of the Union of Russian Artists in France.

Pavel Dmitrievich died on July 2, 1950 in Boulogne-billancourt, France.

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Connections

Pavel Dmitrievich Shmarov was married.