Герасимов Сергей Васи́льевич

1885, Можайск – 1964, Москва.
Художник, живописец и иллюстратор, выпускник (1912) Строгановского училища. Создатель эпических исторических полотен, пейзажей, иллюстраций к произведениям русских и советских классиков. Вел преподавательскую работу (Вхутемас-Вхутеин, 1920—1929; Московский полиграфический институт, 1930—1936; Московский художественный институт, 1936—1950; Московское высшее художественно-промышленное училище, 1950—1964). Народный художник СССР (1958), лауреат Ленинской премии (1966, посмертно).

 

 

Gerasimov, Sergei Vasilevich 

1885 – Mozhaisk, in present-day Moscow Oblast; – 1964, in Moscow.
1956 – Doctor of the arts
1958 – Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR

Member of the Academy of Art of the USSR (1947).

Gerasimov studied at the Stroganov Central School of Arts and Crafts (1901-07) and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1907-12) with S. V. Ivanov and K. A. Korovin. During the first years of Soviet power, Gerasimov worked on the decoration of revolutionary mass festivals in Moscow. In the 1920's and the beginning of the 1930's he painted portraits and genre pictures that were simply composed and almost monochromatic. These portraits and genre pictures, mainly of peasant life, depicted the difficulties encountered in the process of creating a new life (Peasant Woman With Rooster, 1924, Russian Museum, Leningrad; Frontline Soldier, 1926, Tret'iakov Gallery). Gerasimov addressed himself to historical revolutionary subjects, handling them in a monumental and epic style (The Oath of Siberian Partisans, 1933, Russian Museum). In the mid-1930's, Gerasimov's manner of painting changed. He embraced the plein air traditions of Russian painting, both in his genre pictures, among which Kolkhoz Festival (1937, Tret'iakov Gallery) stands out because of its saturated, buoyant, and exultant colors, and in his landscapes, which hold an important place in his work.