Mikhail Sokolov
{{short description|Russian painter}}
{{Family name hatnote|Ksenofontovich |Sokolov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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| birth_name =Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov
| birth_date = {{birth date |1885|9|6}}
| birth_place = Yaroslavl, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age |1947|9|29 |1885|9|6}}
| death_place =Moscow, Soviet Union
| field = Painting
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| nationality = Russian
| training = Yaroslavl Art School
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
| movement = Russian avant-garde
Graphics
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Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov ({{langx|ru|Михаи́л Ксенофо́нтович Соколо́в}}; 1885-1947) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and illustrator active in Soviet Avant-garde arts activity.{{cite web |title=Sokolov, Mikhail [Michael] Ksenofontovich (1885-1947) |url=https://www.russianartandbooks.com/cgi-bin/russianart/i0536.html |website=russianartandbooks.com |accessdate=4 January 2019}}
Biography
From 1904 to 1907 Sokolov studied at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry. He then spent two years in the Imperial Baltic Fleet. His first exhibition was through participation in the Mir iskusstva (World of Art) exhibition of 1917. This showed the influence of the French art from the late 19th and early 20th century.{{cite web |title=Sokolov Mikhail |url=http://www.savitskycollection.org/Sokolov-M.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418155902/http://www.savitskycollection.org/Sokolov-M.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 18, 2014 |website=savitskycollection.org |accessdate=4 January 2019}}
Sokolov taught at the studios in Tver (1920-1922) whilst also taking on graphic work. This included work for Тверской издательство (Tver Publishing House), which was privatised following the introduction of the New Economic Policy.{{cite web |last1=Romberg |first1=Kristin |title=Aleksei Gan's Constructivism, 1917-1928 |url=https://monoskop.org/images/a/a2/Romberg_Kristin_Aleksei_Gans_Constructivism_1917-1928_2010_ills_missing.pdf |website=Monoskop |accessdate=8 January 2019}}
Prior to 1938, he worked as a teacher at various places including the Institute of Advanced Training of Artists and Designers.[https://www.maslovka.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2452 МК Соколов. Биография] However in 1938, Sokolov put on trial and sentenced in march to seven years in Siberian labour camps. He was released early in 1943 owing to sickness and settled in Rybinsk.{{cite web |title=Artist Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov |url=http://petroart.ru/en/art/s/sokolovM/main.php |website=petroart.ru |accessdate=4 January 2019}}
Gallery
File:M._K._Sokolov_(1922_)_O_Teatre_(cover).png|Book cover (1923): O Teatre (Tver) anthology
File:Gusman100Poets.png|Book cover (1923): Literary Portraits: One Hundred Poets (Tver) by Boris Gusman
Personal life
References
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External links
- [https://www.colta.ru/articles/art/19225-on-byl-predelno-samouveren-eto-sozdavalo-emu-mnogo-vragov «Он был предельно самоуверен. Это создавало ему много врагов»]
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