Return to collection
Fine Art
Old Castle. From the series "Cities and People of the GDR"
- ID:
- 845
- Inventory number:
- Гр-159 КН-9437
- Type:
- Graphics
- Material:
- paper
- Techniques:
- charcoal
- Dimensions:
- 23x29 cm
- Author:
- Borys Shcherbakov
-
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:
- Slight deformation of the sheet.
- Location:
- unknown
- Provenance:
- Donated by the author to the museum through the artist Bendryk on 12/30/1962. The act number is not indicated in the old inventory books. The last entry was made: 11/21/1967.
- Date of record to the inventory book:
- 24.09.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
A crenellated stone arch opening onto a courtyard, where (on the right) part of the castle is visible. Bottom right — the artist's signature and date; below — Werninerid
