Tatiana
Mykolaivna Grushevskaya

Russia • 1885−1976

Biography and information

The future artist grew up in a family of a prominent sculptor of Sherwood. In 1902, she began studying at the Stroganov school of the sculptor N. A. Andreeva, from 1906 to 1909 attended a private art school of K. F. Yuon and I. O. Dudin, where he studied drawing from life. In 1909 — 1911 he studied at the private school of the Hungarian Professor Shimon holloshi in Munich. Hrushevsky later continued his studies in Moscow, his student Carol Kish, where at that time worked as V. A. Favorsky, K. N. Istomin, E. M. Bebutov, B. R. Vipper, V. E. Pestel and other future artists and critics. With 1928, he moved to Zagorsk, Hrushevsky combined the arts with teaching in the elementary grades, and four years later entered the Zagorsk artel "Art toy". At this time, she not only makes dolls and other toys, but paints from nature in watercolour and oil, a lot of draws with ink. Works of this period are conquer fresh look at everyday phenomena, they are marked by the author's love to the people around her in everyday life. In 1941, an exhibition of artists of Zagorsk, among whom was the Grushevsky street, in the Central House of journalists in Moscow.

Since 1948, Grushevskogo taught drawing in Bogorodskoe the vocational school, worked together with carvers on new toys, continued to make easel paintings and participate in exhibitions. However, her first personal exposition took place in Zagorsk only ten years.