Sem’ia Traugot: Georgii Traugot, Vera Yanova, Aleksander Traugot, Valerii Traugot / The Traugot Family: Georgy Traugot, Vera Yanova, Alexander Traugot, Valery Traugot
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2012. Sewn cl. This catalogue of the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum publishes four artists whose careers span the Soviet period; the second generation is still active. Georgy Traugot received his training in Petrograd at Vkhutein (Higher Art and Technical Institute, Vyshii khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskii institut) and became associated with the movement “Circle of Artists” (Krug khudozhnikov), a group in Leningrad who thought that modern art did not entail abstraction. His paintings of the 1930s chose subjects current the period: collective farms, factories, mines, and fishermen. He traveled to the Kola Peninsula for the last, and his works are records of the a harsh way of life in a beautiful region. His scenes drawn in the early 1940s capture both the beauty and the desolation of Leningrad under siege. His wife Vera Yanova painted from the 1940s to the 1960s in a style related to French experiments of he early 1900s, but her subjects were Russian, the siege of Leningrad, city scapes and still-life paintings; her works are published here for the first time. Alexander Traugot and Valery Traugot, sons of Georgy and Vera, began painting in the 1950s and continued through the last decades of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty-first. Alexander attracted the attention of Vladimir Sterligov, who first exhibited Alexander’s works at his apartment in 1956. The brothers’ painting, drawings, porcelain, and sculpture convey the range of their artistic lives. 216 pp., 9 ½ x 12 ¼ ins., 25 x 32 cm., approx. 250 color illus., sewn cl., Rus. or ENGLISH. Item #2155
ISBN: 9785933324140
1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s 2nd ISBN: 978-3-86384-063-1.
Price: $85.00