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Victor Teterin

{{short description|Russian painter (1922 – 1991)}}

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|death_place = Leningrad

|field = Painting

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Victor Kuzmich Teterin ({{langx|ru|Ви́ктор Кузьми́ч Тете́рин}}; 25 October 1922 – 1 October 1991) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He is regarded as one of the important representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. pp.9, 15, 20, 21, 24, 370, 388, 390, 391, 399, 401, 403-406, 439, 442, 445.

Biography

Teterin was born on 25 October 1922 in Bakharevo village, Tver Province. Since 1930, together with his parents, he lived in Leningrad. His father worked in ship repair shops, and his mother was a dressmaker, she engaged in the upbringing of children, and housekeeping.

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In 1937–1940, Teterin was engaged in the famous art studio at the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers, where he studied with the famous artist and teacher, a disciple of Ilya Repin, Alfred Eberling. In 1940, he entered the Leningrad Secondary Art School under All-Russian Academy of Arts, where he studied under Pavel Naumov, Mikhail Natarevich, and Olga Bogaevskaya. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he remained in Leningrad. In February 1942, together with the Secondary Art School and the Academy of Arts, he was evacuated from blockaded Leningrad to Samarkand.

In 1944, Victor Teterin entered the first course in the Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied under Alexander Osmerkin, Semion Abugov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Gleb Savinov.

In 1949, he graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Avilov workshop, together with Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov, Maria Rudnitskaya, and other young artists. His graduation work was a historical painting titled "Stalin at exile in Narym".Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p.61.

Since 1949, Teterin participated in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, genre compositions, worked in oils, tempera, and watercolors. From 1949 to 1956, he taught painting and drawing at the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art, named after Vera Mukhina. Among his best known paintings of the 1950s there were "At the Kazan Cathedral" (1949), "Harvesting", "A Winter in Pavlovsk"Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1951 года. Каталог. М.- Л., Искусство, 1951. С.48. (both 1950), "A Portrait of Wife in Yellow Dress",Виктор Кузьмич Тетерин. Выставка произведений. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1988. С.13. "Still Life",Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1953 года. Каталог. Л., Ленинградский Союз советских художников, 1953. С.8. "Landscape in Gurzuf"Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1954 года. Каталог. Л., Изогиз, 1954. С.19. (all 1953), "Portrait of a Mother behind a Sewing Machine", "Sredny Prospekt of the Vasilievsky Island", "Portrait of a Man" (all 1954), "Still Life"Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1956 года. Каталог. Л., Ленинградский художник, 1958. С.23. (1955), "Peaches and Pears" (1956), "In front of May",1917—1957. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников. Каталог. Л., Ленинградский художник, 1958. С.31. "Autumn Bouquet" (both 1957), "Quince and Grapes", "Apple Tree Branch",Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1961. С.41. "A Working Lad" (all 1958), "In Sunny Day", "Road Builders" (both 1959), and others.

According to art critics, the peak of Teterin's creative work occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. Among his well-known paintings of this period were "My Parents",Евгения Антипова, Виктор Тетерин. Живопись. Рисунок. СПб, 1999. С.31. "Quince and Teapot",Иванов С. В. Неизвестный соцреализм. Ленинградская школа. СПб, НП-Принт, 2007. С.72–73 "The End of the Summer",Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1976. С.32. "Southern Still Life", "Olive Grove", "House with Balconies" (all 1966), "Still Life with Rose", "A Spring. View of the Smolenka River"Художники круга 11-ти. Из коллекции Николая Кононихина. СПб, 2001. С.3. (both 1968), "Olives",По родной стране. Выставка произведений художников Ленинграда. 50 Летию образования СССР посвящается. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1974. С.25. "Sredne Podyacheskaya Street" (both 1969), "Red Poppies", "Pears and Pomegranates"Наш современник. Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1975 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980. С.25. (both 1975), "Still life with a Dog Rose"Выставка произведений ленинградских художников, посвящённая 60-летию Великого Октября. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1982. С.22. (1977), "Blue Balcony",Связь времён. 1932—1997. Художники — члены Санкт-Петербургского Союза художников России. Каталог выставки. СПб, 1997. С.299. "Callas"Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1980 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. С.24. (both 1978), "A Girl in a Lilac Dress", "A Girl on the windowsill", "Peonies" (all 1979), and others.

Among his last paintings were "Naked"Выставка произведений 26 ленинградских и московских художников. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1990. С.51. (1981), "Toilet" (1982), "Apples, a Bottle and a Basket"Евгения Антипова, Виктор Тетерин. Живопись. Рисунок. СПб, 1999. С.39. (1983), "Still life with a Spanish Jug"Выставка произведений 26 ленинградских и московских художников. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1990. С.52. (1985), "Sea shore in Gurzuf", "Table Tennis" (both 1985), and others.

His solo exhibitions were held in Leningrad in 1966 and 1988, and in Saint Petersburg in 1999. During the 1960s and 1970s, Teterin become one of the leaders of the "left wing" of the Leningrad Union of Artists, of which he had been a member since 1953.Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. p.130. In 1972, together with his wife, Evgenia Antipova, he took part in the famous Exhibition of the Eleven Artists.

Victor Kuzmich Teterin died in Leningrad in 1991. His paintings are held in the State Russian Museum,Евгения Антипова, Виктор Тетерин. Живопись. Рисунок. СПб., 1999. State Tretyakov Gallery, and in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, in the US, England, Japan, and other countries.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. pp.6–7.

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External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqBP7ggtKY Artist Victor Teterin (1922-1991). Painting. The Leningrad School (VIDEO)]
  • [http://arka-gallery-spb.com/node/45 Exhibition of Victor Teterin in ARKA Fine Art Gallery]

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