Biography of the artist Kulikov

Ivan Semenovich Kulikov Russian artist, painter, master of portraits and household scenes. The artist’s father was an extraordinary specialist in roofing and painting. At the head of the small artel, he took part in the construction and repair of many buildings, churches and residential buildings of the city of Murom. In the summer of the year, on the recommendation of his former teacher of drawing and drawing of the district school of N.

Tovtsev, the young man meets the artist A. Morozov, who sometimes spent summer in Murom, where he found plots for his works. He drew attention to the abilities of the young man and recommended his parents to send him to the Society of the Society for the Promotion of Arts at the Academy in St. Petersburg. In September, Kulikov first goes to Moscow, visits the Tretyakov Gallery, the Rumyantsev Museum, meets the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

In November, he goes to St. Petersburg, becomes an assistant in the workshop of A. Morozov, who at that time taught a drawing at the St. Petersburg School of Law, performing small orders for illustrations, icons, portraits. In the year, Kulikov is accepted to the school of the Society for the Promotion of Arts. Under the guidance of teachers N. Makarov, A. Afanasyev, E.

Lipgart, he masters the foundations of graphics, painting, building prospects and compositions. In the fall of the year, Kulikov becomes a freedom of the Academy of Arts at the artist V., however, in less than a month he moved to I. in the spring of the year at the request of his teacher Kulikov becomes a student of the Academy of Arts. B - years he took part in the work on I.

Repin's painting “The Prescription of the State Council”, together with B. Kulikov, made 17 field portrait sketches, almost the main part of them. In the years, Kulikov made about 20 illustrations for the works of Maxim Gorky “Konovalov” and “Twenty Six and One”, which are located in the Museum of the Gorky and Murom Historical and Art Museum.

In November, Kulikov graduates from the Academy of Arts. His competitive work “Champing in a peasant hut” was awarded a large gold medal and gave him the right to be a personal honorary citizen and the right to a foreign business trip. From for a year - as a pensioner of the Academy of Arts, Kulikov takes trips to Italy and France. In the year, the title of Academician of Painting is awarded to the cycle of paintings about Murom Kulikov.

Since the year, Kulikov worked in the Murom Museum, now one of the significant in the Vladimir region. For a long time, Kulikov led the art department. Ivan Semenovich energetically collected from abandoned, doomed to plunder and destroy the palaces and noble estates of paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects of applied art, archival documents, books, historical relics. It is to him that our culture owes the salvation of the unique collections of the Grafs of the Uvarovs in Karacharov.

In different years, in addition to other works, portraits were written: the pilot V. Chkalov, writer Maxim Gorky, artist A. Durov, archaeologist A. In the year built by Kulikov’s father, where his family lived since the year, the artist’s memorial house-museum was opened. In the year, by decision of the local authorities, the museum was closed, all exhibits were transported to the Murom Historical and Art Museum.

The house is in private ownership of the descendants of the artist. House-Museum of the academician of painting I. Murom, Soviet Russia, Kulikov: Monograph. Fine art, Ivan Kulikov: Album. White city, Lipatov V. Paints of time: essays. Young Guard, originally from Murom I. Russian artists.