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 Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting. He painted battle and historical paintings, genre scenes, portraits,
landscapes and sketches from the life, and he was most famous for the impressive portraits of contamporaries painted in realistic style. Baskakov worked in the
technique of oil painting and drawing.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov was born May 8, 1918 in Astrakhan city on the Volga River. In 1933–1939 years Nikolai Baskakov studied with the famous Russian art educator Pavel Alekseevich Vlasov in Astrakhan Art School. From 1939 to 1945 he served in the Red Army in the Soviet Far East.
In 1945 Nikolai Baskakov came to Leningrad and entered at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of Leonid Ovsannikov, Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Alexander Zaytsev. In 1951 Nikolai Baskakov graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Boris Ioganson workshop together with Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maya Kopitseva, Anatoli Levitin, Avenir Parkhomenko, Arseny Semionov, Mikhail Trufanov, Boris Ugarov, and other young artists. His graduation work was the historical painting Lenin and Stalin in Smolny.
Since 1951 Nikolai Baskakov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He was a Member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1951.
Among the most famous works by Nikolai Baskakov are paintings Music (1957), On the Russian Land (1968), Milkwomen (1962), Victory (1974), Portrait of Vasily Shukshin"
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Western countries discovered the art of Nicholas Baskakov in 1989, when his portraits and genre paintings were first shown in Paris at the auctions of the Leningrad school artists. Subsequently many of his works were acquired by American private collections.
In 1991 Saint Petersburg publishing house "Khudozhnik RSFSR" issued a monograph by V. Kirillov, devoted to creative output of Nikolai Baskakov.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov died on October 14, 1993, in Saint Petersburg at the age of seventy-six. vHis paintings are in the State Russian Museum, Art museums and private collections in the Russia, Japan, the U.S., Germany, England, and France.
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Known for his contemporary genre scenes and realistic portraiture, Nikolai Baskakov first studied in 1933 with the famous Russian art educator Pavel Alekseevich Vlasov at the Astrakhan Art School. Following this initial education, Baskakov fulfilled six years in the Soviet Far East serving under the Red Army.
In 1943 he began exhibiting his art; although it wasn’t until 1951 that he graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute in Leningrad from Boris Ioganson’s studio. His focus was on historical representation. That same year he participated in a significant show in Moscow, the All-Union Art Exhibition, which aimed to present “a true and historically concrete depiction of reality in its revolutionary development […] combined with the task of educating workers in the spirit of Communism.”*
A dedicated member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (previously named the Leningrad branch of the Union of the Artists of Russian Federation), Baskakov continued for the next forty years to paint numerous works in the Realist and Impressionist styles.
In Paris in 1989, an auction of works from the Leningrad School revealed a number of previously unknown artists to the West, Baskakov included. Subsequently many of his paintings were acquired by American collectors, with whom they remain today. Since the artist’s death in St. Petersburg, his work has spread to museums throughout Russia as well as residing in collections in France, Japan, the U.S., Germany and England.
* Bowlt, John, ed. Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902-1934. (New York, NY: Viking Press, 1976.) p. 296-97.
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