Russian artist Sergey Nikitich Yuzhanin today little known to the General public. Exhibition in the marble hall of the Museum gives you the opportunity to join the work of this interesting artist. First solo exhibition of works Southerner in Samara include painting, graphics, archival documents, photographs from the collections of the Samara art Museum, the Literary Museum-estate of A. N. Tolstoy and private collections.
S. N. A southerner born in Moscow in 1862, the family caretaker at the Stroganov school of Nikita Vjuzhanina. He received his artistic education at the Stroganov art school, which he entered in 1882. Worked as a teacher of drawing in the factory of Morozov, at the Realschule in the city of Panevska, and from 1889 in year taught in Bialystok, where his disciple later became famous Russian artist S. Y. Zhukovsky. 1896 S. N. The southerner lived in Italy – in Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, island of Capri. As an artist-italianist he was connected by friendship with the painters-academics - F. A. Bronnikov, P. A. and A. A. Svedomskij, S. V. Bakalovich, A. rizzoni. In 1892, during a brief stay in Russia, the artist was presented by P. P. Chistyakov, the workshop which was visited during the year. Picture Southerner "Roman courtyard" in 1898 acquired for his gallery of famous Russian philanthropist and collector of paintings of Pavel Tretyakov.
In the Moscow Museum of fine arts (now the Pushkin Museum to them. A. S. Pushkina), in the hall dedicated to early Italian Renaissance, they were filled with monumental painting "View of Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo" (1903 — 1906). In 1912 S. N. A southerner was appointed Roman art school of the Imperial Academy of Arts, actively participates in exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Milan, Venice, London. Since 1912, a southerner lived and worked as a Director in the city of Vilna art school, taught at the Pedagogical Institute. During the First world war, in 1915, the Institute was evacuated to Samara, there, together with the Institute moved and the artist. After the revolution of 1917 he continued to work as a teacher of the Samara Pedagogical Institute. Since 1922 in connection with the disease worked at home. Died S. N. A southerner in 1933.
After 1914, the return of the artist in Russia significantly changed the style of his work. He turned to the image of the Volga river, the environs of Samara. Works Southerner in Samara was exhibited at the first exhibition of the paintings of proletarian artists in 1925, the exhibition of the branch of AHRR in 1925, at the fifth regular and first regional exhibitions AChRs in 1928 and the subsequent regional exhibitions.
Unfortunately, much of the creative legacy of the artist – 865 works – remained in Italy. In the collection of the Samara art Museum houses nearly 40 paintings and drawings of the Southerner, his works are also in the collections of the Museum-estate of A. N. Tolstoy, Khabarovsk art Museum, the descendants of the family of the artist private collections.
