Eugene
Anatolyevich Rastorguev (February 23

1920−2009

Biography and information

Evgeni Anatolievich Rastorguev (1920 - 2009)
Evgeny Rastorguev was born 23 Feb 1920 in the village of Nikolo-Pogost of Nizhny Novgorod province in the family of a teacher. In 1924 his parents moved to Gorodets on the Volga. In the autumn of 1935 Eugene entered the Gorky art school, where his main teachers were Anatoly Samsonov. The school met aspiring artist Tamara Guseva Petrovna, who later became his wife.
In 1941, the match was mobilized into the Red Army and sent to the front, where he became a military cartographer. In 1943, he fought on the Karelian front, he worked in the front of the newspaper, participated in the construction of the first memorial Museum of the Second world war, the architectural complex of the memorial of the "Svirskaya victory".
After the war, in 1946, Eugene Rastorguev continues his artistic education and entered the Moscow state art Institute. V. I. Surikov, faculty of painting in the workshop of S. Gerasimov. Among his classmates — V. Gavrilov, S. Tkachev, I. Sorokin, B. Shustov, P. Stolyarov, etc. It communicates with the older masters such as Vladimir Efanov, Yu. I. Pimenov, F. Bogorodsky, A. Tyshler, N. Shifrin, Segal, N. Chernyshev. Some of them go in friendship.
In 1953, after graduation, on the recommendation of his teacher, S. V. Gerasimov, with the support of V. N. Baksheeva Rastorguev was immediately accepted as a member of the Union of artists of the USSR, passing the probationary period. In the same year his work "Port Vladimir" and "Student" were exhibited at the national exhibition in the Tretyakov gallery. He soon becomes a member of the Union of artists.
In 1957, the artist writes picture "Youth", the success of which led to it being acquired by the Tretyakov gallery. Since 1960, he begins a close collaboration with the magazine "Youth", where he worked as an Illustrator. As a magazine reporter travels all over the country: the Urals, the Bratsk hydroelectric power station, far East, Nakhodka. In the mid-1960s, wrote a cycle of works devoted to the construction sites of the Far East series "Brotherly book", "Poems" (1964-1965), "far flight" dedicated to the everyday life of drivers of Bratsk. In 1966, he again travels to the North along with Tamara Guseva. They visit the Island Sumy, Sumy Posad, Ukova. With them on the trip involved the artist Pavel Sudakov. According to the materials of the trip Rastorguev says the painting "We the North", "Aunt Tanya", "the Fisherman, Sumy Posad", "Serezha fags", and other works of the white sea cycle.
Back in Moscow, the match starts to book graphics artist decorated more than 100 books at the publishing house "Detgiz", "Young guard", "Soviet writer". He exhibited much at the Moscow, Russian, Union and international exhibitions. Becoming a member of the famous "group of 16".
Since late 1960-ies the artist's style changes dramatically, it starts up ceramics. Every summer, the match spends in Gorodets, where he bought a house, and writes a whole series of works dedicated to the city of his childhood. From that moment on he became known as "the artist from Gorodets" with a strong own style. In 1970, appears one of the first publications about the artist A. Zybin "Gorodets fantasies" in the magazine "Moscow".
The artist's works were exhibited at the exhibitions of the works of the "Group 16" (1969, 1975, 1985), at the exhibition of decorative art in Salon, Nadia léger, Paris (1975), exhibition of sculpture of small forms in new Delhi (India) in 1979, the exhibition of works by Soviet artists in Birmingham, UK (1988), Warsaw (Poland) and Toronto (Canada) in 1989, at exhibitions in Pennsylvania (USA), Honfleur (France) in 1991, the exhibition "Five Russian artists in Rome" in the Gallery "San Lorenzo" (Italy) in 1993, a group exhibition in gallery "na Solyanke", Moscow (1994), group exhibition of Moscow artists in Yaroslavl — gallery "Forum-Ares" (1996) and many others.
Personal exhibition of Eugene Rastorgueva were in West Berlin (1975), in the Exhibition hall on Liteiny prospect in Leningrad (1984), Vyborg Castle (1985), the Art Museum in Cheboksary (1987), Podolsk (1988), the Art Museum of Nizhny Novgorod (1990), in Rome and in the Gallery Helena Cornetcy in Pittsburgh (USA) in 1991, in the Central house of artists in Moscow in 1995, in Moscow gallery "Ark" in 1997, the New Zealand Embassy in Moscow (2004), in the State Tretyakov gallery (2005), the Embassy of Finland in Moscow (2007), in the Exhibition hall of the city of Gorodets (2008), in the Central exhibition hall, Nizhny Novgorod.
The work of Yevgeny Anatolievich Rastorguev are in the collections of the State Tretyakov gallery, State Museum of ceramics Kuskovo, State Museum of decorative-applied art (Museum), Museum of modern art (Moscow); State Russian Museum, the Museum of defense of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) the Regional art gallery of Vologda, art museums of Vologda, Orel, Nizhny Novgorod, Kherson, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Cheboksary, Izhevsk, Kemerovo, Chelyabinsk, Ferapontovo, Novokuznetsk, Petrozavodsk, Tyumen, as well as abroad: in the Vatican Museum (Rome, Italy), at the Art Museum of Toulouse (France), the Museum of Cremona Foundation (Mechanicville, USA), in the Gallery of P. Ludwig (Cologne, Germany); in private collections in Bulgaria, great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Russia (Moscow, St.-Petersburg), USA, Finland, France, Czech Republic, New Zealand.