Chesnyakov Efim Biography

Student Repin Efim Chesnyakov. The city of universal prosperity near Kostroma, in the village of Shortovo Kologrivsky District, found the most interesting works of the previously unknown artist Efima Chesnyakov. Typically, such finds are explained by the will of chance. Is this true, if people in love with art are specifically engaged in searching to open another name to the world, to please people with another find?

So it was this time. The main keeper of the Kostroma Regional Museum of Fine Arts V. Makarov and senior researcher V. Lebedev went on an expedition. In the village of Shtelvo in the same house, their attention was attracted by a small picture. Experienced specialists were enough for one look to determine its real artistic value. In response to the question of where she got this thing, the hostess said that the artist, Efimka Chesnikov, lived in their village, many had pictures from him.

Let's go home. Having collected everything they could, Makarov and Lebedev returned to Kostroma. The director of the museum, Viktor Ignatiev, a subtle expert in painting, seeing the things brought, went to Klatlabovo now for the only purpose - to find Chesnyakov’s work and find out more about himself. As a result of these trips, more than twenty paintings made in oil technology were found and collected in the Kostroma Museum Museum, many drawings, watercolors, clay toys.

During one of his business trips to Kostroma, Moscow art critic and restorer Savely Yamshchikov got acquainted with them. He made sure that the things found without delay got into Moscow on the restorer’s table. Now the restoration is conducted by specialists of the I. State Central Artistic Scientific and Restoration Workshop and, of course, first of all, I wanted to hear their opinion about the artist and his works.

The painting of Efima Chestnyakova is an unusually interesting peasant artist. And most importantly, not like anyone, ”the restorers say. His theme, his own, inherent only to him, the manner of writing. Extraordinary combinations of colors, which, by the way, he made according to his own recipes, juicy colors, chosen skillfully, tastefully, to the subtleties of a thoughtful composition of the picture, meticulous work on the smallest details - all this suggests that Chesnikov is a professional artist of high class.

The artist, about his life, creative aspirations - give an idea and documents about the artist, man, about his life, the bulk of which was provided to employees of the Museum of Smirnov, the niece of the artist. The secretary of the Kologrivsky District Committee of the Z. Party of Z. was also told in search of new documents by the old-timers of the village of Shtelvo, who knew the artist.

Indeed, in this village, Efim Vasilievich Chestnyakov was born and lived all his life. According to the documents, he was born in the year. He studied at a rural elementary school, at the district school, then in the Novinsk teacher’s seminary. He worked at the Zdemirovsky Primary School, then in a colony for young criminals in Kostroma, and even later - to the Uglets primary school of the Kinesham district of the Kostroma province.

And at the same time he was fond of drawing and painting. Later, in the years, in a letter to K. Chukovsky, whom he met in Kuokkala at Repin, E. Chesnikov wrote: “I. is obliged to I. in the field of art in the field of art. My drawings, when he was a teacher, was accidentally accumulated for me to Repin. " As follows from the letter, then Repin agreed to accept Chestnyakov to the studio of Princess M.

Tenisheva, whose leader he was, and the headman was the studio of Princess Tenisheva, however, Chesnikov’s creative ties with Repin were supported for many years. From the years, Chestlyakov first studied at the Kazan Art School, then at the Higher Art School at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he was a free listener. From a year until the end of his life, E. Chesnyakov, except for his trips to St.

Petersburg in the year, lived in his native village of Shtelvo. The native of the peasants himself, he knew the village well, peasant life. And, of course, this was reflected in his work. Efim Chesnyakov. The group portrait is not only an artist, but also a talented writer, Chesnikov composed poems, ditties, fairy tales. Most paintings by the painter are written on the plots of his own fairy tales.

In these paintings, the artist’s dream of a happy life, about bakery and abundance, in which peasants will live, is embodied. There is almost a single work of E. Chestnyakov, on which children would not be depicted. He carried love for children through his whole life. Especially for children, he built fairy -tale clay towns, sculpted toys from clay, affectionately calling them clay. He drove children in this fairy -tale city of prosperity, sang ditties, read poems, told fairy tales, and the clay from this seemed to come to life.

Chukovsky, having read his fairy tales and poems for children at his first acquaintance with Consnikov, he certainly advised to print these “compositions”. It was in the year.And in the Publishing House "Medvezon" in St. Petersburg, a book of fairy tales E. Chesnyakova, who was illustrated, was published. Chestlyakov naively thought that the life of the village could only be changed by the familiarization of the peasants to art.

So, in one of the letters, he said with pain: “The soul was served that little is done for a radical impact on life and so life is not improving, stretches along bumps and swamps, while it is high time to arrange paths and roads, a powerful universal culture.” And further: “We will not blame the artist for the fallacy of his views. Another thing is more important to us - the very essence of his art, in its basis, his service to the people, which he knew, loved passionately.

After the revolution, in the year, E. Chesnyakov, at the invitation of the Kologrivsky Proletkult, worked in an art studio. And in the year, the exhibition of the works of E. Chesnyakova was organized in the Kologriv Art and Historical Museum now restored part of the found works of E. Chesnyakov, including the “city of prosperity”-one of the largest and most difficult to restore paintings.

It is hoped that in the near future an exhibition of revived works by E. will take place in the history of Russian art a new artist who dreamed that all his abilities served as “a popularly important not only for the transformation of the village, but also in general life”. Teterevin king.