Konenkov Museum (sculptor) is located in Moscow,at: st. Tverskaya, 17. In this article you will learn about what can be seen today in this building. We are also interested in everything related to such a famous person as S. Konenkov: a memorial museum workshop, the work of the sculptor and his biography.
Church of sv. Dmitry Solunsky
The building in which the Memorial Museum is locatedKonenkova, is an object of cultural heritage of our country, a monument of culture and history. At this place used to be the church of St.. Dmitry Solunsky. In 1625, this temple was founded and rebuilt in Empire style at the beginning of the XIX century. He asked the architectural appearance of the whole of Passion Square, which is today called Pushkin. Next to the church, in the 1920s, there was the famous literary cafe "Stall of Pegasus", which was visited by imagisty. A. Mariengof, S. Yesenin, N. Klyuev, A. Duncan, A. Tairov and others often came here.
Residential complex on the site of the church
The church in 1934 was dismantled.In 1939-1941 in its place built a residential house designed by A.G. Mordvinova, a famous architect. He is also the author of a number of buildings located on Tverskaya. Light brick made massive walls of the building. The facade was decorated with balconies, intricate reliefs, oriental-type turrets and bay windows. A statue of a ballerina crowned the corner tower. Its author is the sculptor Motovilov. Due to poor preservation at the end of 1950, it was decided to dismantle the statue.
What is famous house designed by Mordvinova?
The house is interesting, except for architectural features,and famous people who lived in it. At various times, its inhabitants were AB Goldenweiser, a musician whose apartment is today a branch of the Museum. Glinka, M.I. Gudkov, aircraft designer, G.I. Gorin, satirist and playwright.
Until 1950, the monument to A.S.Pushkin was at the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard. It was created by A.M. Opekushin, famous sculptor, in 1880. This monument was liked by Sergei Timofeevich. He was very glad that the sculptor Konenkov could see him from the windows of the workshop.
The museum workshop, now located on the site of a residential building, has its own history. We will tell about how it was created.
Creating a museum
On Tverskaya Street, at number 17, from 1947 to 1971lived Konenkov Sergey Timofeevich. After his death, a government decree was issued, according to which it was decided to create in the apartment-workshop where Konenkov (sculptor) lived and worked, a memorial museum. The Academy of Arts of the USSR and the Ministry of Culture carried out work on the formation of its collection and exposition. On the centenary of the sculptor, in 1974, this museum was opened. The work of the sculptor S. Konenkov is represented in it as fully as possible.
What is the museum Konenkova?
It includes a workshop as wellmemorial part: an office, living rooms, a living room and a hall located on the second floor. It was possible to preserve until today all the features of the interior, which was made according to Konenkov’s personal project. To date, the exposition presented here is the most significant and large collection of works by this master. She presents the most complete stages of his creative biography. Of great value is an extensive library, manuscripts of books and articles, Konenkov notebooks, a collection of photographs, which include an image of the master's works left in the United States.
The museum today collaborates with galleries andshowrooms of the country. Within its walls are exhibitions of works not only of Konenkov himself, but also of his students, as well as works of young artists and sculptors.
Lobby
Знаменитый автопортрет Коненкова, выполненный из Gypsum (1954), located in the lobby. He was awarded the Lenin Prize. Also here is one of the most poetic and sophisticated female images - a portrait of the wife of the sculptor, Margarita Konenkova, created in 1918 from wood. The lobby presents the original furniture of the wizard, made of roots and stumps (chairs "Boa", "Owl", "Swan", etc.), in which images and forms are borrowed from nature. One of the most interesting sights of the collection is this unique set.
Workshop room
The main workshop is located in the workshop.exposure. Here are the early works relating to the student period: "Stoneman" (1897), "Reading Tatar" (1893), works of the "Silver Age", in particular, works included in the treasury of the sculpture of our country. This, for example, "Bach" - the pearl of the museum of interest to us, the work in which the author rose to a monumental synthetic image, an extraordinary strength of generalization; several compositions on the theme "Samson", "Paganini".
"Forest series" and female portraits
Знаменитая "Лесная серия" вызывает неизменный interest of many visitors to this museum. The work of the sculptor S. Konenkov reveals the national Russian character and demonstrates his high skill in woodworking. This series includes such works as the relief “Feast” (1910), “We are Elninsky” (1942), “The Forester” (1909), “The Old Old Man” (1909), and also the work “Bacchus” created in 1916 with malachite eyes. " It is worth noting that the tree was not only material for fabulous and fantastic images in Konenkov's works. The sculptor, skillfully using the plastic properties of this material, created in 1918 a portrait of M.I. Konenkova, full of charm, as well as the harmoniously perfect figure of a woman "Magnolia" in 1934.
Portraits of contemporaries
Сергей Тимофеевич за долгую творческую жизнь created an excellent gallery of portraits of various contemporaries, eminent figures of science and culture, in which his unique gift manifested itself to exquisitely feel the peculiarities of spiritual wealth and personality, his personality. Among them are psychological portraits of Albert Einstein, Ivan Pavlov, Charles Gilder, Sergey Rakhmaninov, Nadezhda Plevitskaya, Nikolai Feshin, Maxim Gorky, as well as famous portraits of the granddaughter of this writer, Peshkova Marfa Maksimovny, and Ninochka, her daughters are works that are rich in emotional nuances. All of them are full of inner peace and purity.
In 1935, Sergei Konenkov, a sculptor, withoutdoubt, talented, created a portrait of Albert Einstein. To this day, he is considered one of the most successful images of this great scientist. The portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky, executed in 1933, is considered the pinnacle of Konenkov's creativity. In it, the master managed to convey the entire complex range of different emotional states and create an image full of internal psychologism and tragedy.
Religious themes in the work Konenkova
В творчестве Коненкова в конце 1920-х годов completely new plastic and plot motifs appear - the sculptor turns to religious themes. The gospel cycle is a comprehensive and the only complete expression of Konenkov's religious search in sculpture. The museum presents the following works: created from gypsum in 1928, the Prophet, from terracotta in 1928 - John and James, as well as images of Christ in a cast and wood.
Recent work Konenkova
The sculptor in the last years of his life was fascinated,first of all, plastic experiments. He made attempts to combine various types of art, which were expressed in the synthesis of painting and sculpture, the desire to combine the latter with sound and movement. All this is embodied in "Cosmos", a musical sculptural instrument, which can be considered one of the first installations in the Russian art of the period of the 1950s.
Konenkov until the end of his life remained bravean experimenter and innovator in art, the broadest erudition by man, a thinker who deeply experienced the events of that time. Therefore, we can say that it was not for nothing that he called his final work “My age”.
Short biography Konenkova
So, we described the Konenkov Museum.This sculptor was born in 1874, on June 28, in the village of Karakovichi (today it is located in the Smolensk region, Elninsky district). Below is his portrait by Pavel Korin.
By nationality, he is Belarusian, grew up inpeasant family. Konenkov studied at MUZHVZ, after which - from Professor Beklemishev in St. Petersburg, at the Higher School of Art. His thesis ("Samson, breaking ties") was considered too revolutionary and destroyed by order of the Academy of Arts.
In 1897 she travels to Germany, Italyand France the sculptor Konenkov. His biography at this time is marked by the fact that he performed at the end of the 19th century with the Stone-stone, a realistic sculpture. Konenkov was found in Moscow by the revolutionary events of 1905. He creates under their impression a series of portraits of participants in the clashes on Presnya. Also in 1905, he designed the Filippov Cafe, located on Tverskaya, and in 1910 he created a bas-relief "Feast".
Скульптор Коненков, работы которого нас interest, in 1912 visited Egypt and Greece. At this time, he worked on the "Forest Series". The tree is widely used in it, various methods of its processing are presented. For Konenkov, the forest is a symbol of beauty, the embodiment of the elemental forces of nature. The sculptor uses the methods of folk carving, creatively rethinks in his works the images of ancient legends. In parallel with this cycle, he is also working on the "Greek" ("Gorus" and "Young Man").
Этот скульптор одним из первых русских мастеров At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries depicted nude female body. Often his works are made in the tradition of wood carving, folk Russian art. We note here "Caryatid (1918)," The Firebird "(1915)," Winged "(1913).
Konenkov supported the October Revolution, participated in the implementation of the plan of so-called monumental propaganda. He created, in particular, the monument “Stepan Razin” for Red Square.
Konenkov in 1922 married VorontsovaMargarita Ivanovna and went to the United States. Here the couple lived 22 years (mainly in New York). This period of his work includes works related to reflections on the themes of the Apocalypse, the Bible. These are drawings depicting apostles, prophets, Christ, as well as sketches for cosmogony.
Sergei Konenkov was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
So, we reviewed the memorial museum and the work of the sculptor S. Konenkov. His work today is known not only in our country, but throughout the world.
