Russian Soviet painter
Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson
(
Russian
:
Борис Владимирович Иогансон
, 25 July [
O.S.
13 July] 1893 ? 25 February 1973) also commonly known as
B. V. Johanson
, was a Russian and
Soviet
painter and educator.
Biography
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Ioganson was born on 25 July [
O.S.
13 July] 1893 in
Moscow
. His father's Swedish ancestors
Russified
the surname "Johansson" into "Ioganson".
In 1919-1922 he worked as a stage designer in the
theaters of Krasnoyarsk and Alexandria
(
Kherson
province). During the
Civil War
, he was an officer in the
White Army
and served with
Kolchak
. He ended up in a typhoid hospital and, finally, entered the service of the Red Army. According to the memoirs of the artist A. S. Smirnov, who knew the artist, the last, honored officer in the army of
Kolchak
.
[1]
Ioganson attended the
Moscow School of Art
, and studied under
Kelin
,
Kasatkin
and
Malyutin
.
[2]
He was a member of the Society of Young Artists, where he argued for a complete transference of Russian art to
Constructivism
. He soon abandoned this cause and took up easel painting. In 1922, he helped found the
Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia
, and abruptly transferred into the realm of
Socialist Realism
. Ioganson's work was inspired by that of
Repin
, that is exhibiting certain features of
Impressionism
, and was often narrative in nature. Possibly his best-known work was "Interrogation of the Communists" a piece thoroughly representative of Socialist Realism but with piercing elements of
Romanticism
, in addition to an exploitation of some elements of
Futurism
. A sense of theatricality is present in his paintings, probably due to his studies of theater design under
Korovin
.
He died on 25 February 1973.
Pupils
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Some graduates of
Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
(now known as St. Petersburg Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) studied at the
Boris Ioganson Workshop
(active from 1930 to 1950s) in Moscow. His notable students included Alexey Eriomin, Nikolai Baskakov, Valery Vatenin, Nina Veselova, Maya Kopitseva, Oleg Lomakin, Valentina Monakhova, Nikolai Mukho, Anatoli Nenartovich, Mikhail Natarevich, Semion Rotnitsky, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin,
Knarik Vardanyan
,
[3]
and Felix Lembersky.
Bibliography
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References
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- A History of Russian Painting, Alan Bird
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