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Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev 1890-1972

Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev (17.09.1890-08.12.1972)

Soviet canned goods. Oil on canvas. Still life. 1939. Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev (17.09.1890-08.12.1972)

Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev (17.09.1890-08.12.1972) was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1958). A Member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, he acted as one of its organizers (1922).
Born in Moscow, Yakovlev graduated from the Moscow University (1917), and then – School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied in the workshop of A.M. Vasnetsov and A.S. Stepanova (1918), and also his teachers were S.V. Malyutin and A.E. Arkhipov. Mentors of the young artist were representatives of Russian realistic art. From them, Yakovlev perceived the remarkable national traditions of landscape painting. Master of lyrical landscape, he became the founder of the Soviet industrial landscape. His famous works on the topic of industrialization of the country – “Transport is getting better”, 1923 and the lyrical landscape “Arable land”, 1950s.
Since 1916 he began to participate in exhibitions. Since 1922 – a participant in exhibitions of the CPX. In 1921, the artist exhibited with the group “World of Art”. Yakovlev’s paintings were present at the exhibitions “Artists of the Russian Federation for 15 years”, “Industry of Socialism”, All-Union art exhibitions,

Detail of painting. Moscow

Detail of painting. Moscow

He was on a creative trip abroad in Italy and Germany, and participated in exhibitions of “World of Art” movement, the Union of Russian Artists, Peredvizhniki, Academy of Art (since its foundation in 1922), and several foreign exhibitions.
Works by Yakovlev are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, The State Russian Museum, the Museum of the Revolution, etc.

He traveled extensively throughout the country: in 1925 he visited Samarkand, the Crimea (1928), Baku (1929), Leningrad (the Baltic plant, 1930), Georgia (1933), as well as two trips to the Urals (1933 and 1934). In 1935 he was in Dagestan, and in 1936 – in Karelia.

During the Great Patriotic War BN Yakovlev created a number of expressive works about Moscow. Professor, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, B.N. Yakovlev taught at the All-Russian Institute of Cinematography (VGIK, 1956-1963). Member of the CPSU since 1960.
He died on December 8, 1972 in Moscow.

Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev

At the sea. 1949

At the sea. 1949

Bazaar in Samarkand, 1925

Bazaar in Samarkand, 1925

Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye. 1946

Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye. 1946

City railway station. 1923. Orenburg Art Gallery

City railway station. 1923. Orenburg Art Gallery

Crimea. Landscape

Crimea. Landscape

Forest landscape

Forest landscape

In the mountains

In the mountains

In the woods

In the woods

Moscow

Moscow

Red Square. 1948. TG

Red Square. 1948. Tretyakov Gallery

Running stream (Spring Stream)

Running stream (Spring Stream)

Satka mine. 1930s

Satka mine. 1930s

Silver roofs. 1943

Silver roofs. 1943

Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev (17.09.1890-08.12.1972)

Soviet Russian painter Boris Yakovlev (17.09.1890-08.12.1972)

Summer landscape. Village

Summer landscape. Village

Summer of 1954

Summer of 1954

The Kremlin

The Kremlin

Transport is improving. 1923. Tretyakov Gallery

Transport is improving. 1923. Tretyakov Gallery