ArtistSysoev, Nikolai Alexandrovich

Artist Years1919-2001

Artist NationalityRussian

TitleRoses in a Porcelain Pot

Year1982

MediumPainting > Oil

DimensionsCanvas: 18 X 15 inches

Accession NumberRC2116

NotesSoviet painter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. People’s Artist of Russia. From 1934 to 1938 he studied at the Moscow Artistic and Pedagogical School in memory of 1905 from P.D. Pokarzhevsky, V.V. Favorsky.

In 1938, without exams, he entered the Moscow State Institute of Art. For his excellent studies he was awarded a creative trip to the “Academic Dacha” by I.E. Repin and was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR. All-Union fame for Nikolai Sysoev was brought by the works of V.I. Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya among the peasants of the village of Gorky in 1921.

In 1987 he founded the Lipetsk region. (the village of Leo Tolstoy) Picture gallery, which today bears the name of the artist. Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in Moscow (1979, 1980, 1988, 2002), Leningrad (1981), Tver (1981), Lipetsk (1990, 2001). The works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Historical Museum, the Tver Art Gallery, the Tula Regional Art Museum. “Nikolai Alexandrovich Sysoev received his initial art education in the Moscow Art College in memory of 1905 (1934-1938). This time, the teaching of painting and drawing was very good there, the creative atmosphere reigned, and the students were eager to learn.In the enthusiasts who were engaged literally morning to night, there was also Nikolai Sysoev, he stood out for his giftedness, curiosity and love of work, performing countless sketches and drawings in excess of the compulsory program greatly helped him in his studies.

After finishing his technique and enrolled in the Moscow State Art Institute (now named after VI Surikov), the future artist continues with the same zeal to comprehend the secrets of mastery.In the institute headed by IE Grabar, the students were brought up in the spirit of consistent realism, therefore both painting and drawing required a full-blooded, as close as possible to convey life and nature.Nikolai Aleksandrovich to this day remains true to these principles. Even in the years of study his tastes and affections were determined. Infinitely loving and admiring the great masters of the past, he felt the closest Russian artists to himself, and, first and foremost, I. Repin and V. I. Surikov. In 1947-1948, near Vyshny Volochka, the House of Artists “Academic country house”. Among the first artists who started to work there, there was also NA Sysoev. Later, having met local residents, many of whom later became heroes of his paintings, and subjugated by the beauty of the surrounding nature, Nikolai Alexandrovich settled in the nearest village where he built himself a workshop. Since then, he has been living there and working almost continuously.
(source: oknasocrealisma.com)