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Fine Art
The Mausoleum of Schiller and Goethe (from “Cities and People”). GDR
- ID:
- 164
- Inventory number:
- Ж-164 КН-9436
- Type:
- Paintings
- Material:
- cardboard
- Techniques:
- oil
- Dimensions:
- 35x45 cm
- Author:
- Borys Shcherbakov
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Borys Valentynovych Shcherbakov was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist. Born on March 25 (April 7), 1916 in Petrograd. From 1933 to 1939 he studied at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers were V. Yakovlev, P. Shukhmin, and I. Brodskyi. He worked on church frescoes in Kyiv. From the 1950s to 1960s he painted portraits of prominent people of his time, in particular K. Fedin, V. Toporkov, I. Kozhedub, and others. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1944). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981). People's Artist of the USSR (1986). His paintings are kept in many museums around the world. He lived and worked in Moscow. Died on July 25, 1995.
- Date of creation:
- 1957
- Preservation:
- Complete safety
- Location:
- unknown
- Provenance:
- Donated to the museum by the author through the artist Bendryk on 12.30, 1962. The receipt is not indicated in the old inventories. The last entry was made on 11.21, 1967.
- Date of record to the inventory book:
- 22.09.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
Original. In the foreground is an alley leading to a house with columns and stairs. Along the edges of the alley are rows of tall trees, on which the remaining autumn leaves are turning yellow. In the lower right corner there is the author's signature.
