Efim
Mikhailovich Cheptsov

Professor, honoured worker of arts. worker of arts of RSFSR (1946). B. in the village of Medvenka in Kursk province in the family of the painter and iconographer. Already in childhood he took up the brush to help my father paint the roof and paint icons. Then - study in Kyiv icon-painting school at the Kievo-Pechersk Lavra. When H was 20, he went to work in St. Petersburg, worked as an artist in magazines. In 1901 he entered the Tenishev art school in the class of Professor Preobrazhensky; the group of students the school was painting a Church in Florence. He studied at the Academy of arts under the leadership of K. A. Savinskaya and I. tvorozhnikova. Put drawings in periodicals, painting postcards, portraits by order. Putting in the spring of 1906 painting "Hunter", "Dr", H drew the attention of the best critics. After graduating from the Academy of arts Charles was sent for training to Italy, to Capri where he met A. M. Gorky. Here H is also a lot of work and later for canvas Capri awarded a secondary trip to Italy, and in Holland and Belgium.

Long Hours also lives at home, says a villager: "Children in the village", "family", "Listen" etc. Along with the creativity he gave a lot of time to cultural and educational work among his countrymen: he designed and escorted holidays read popular lectures on art, led a drama club, where he was both the Director and the actor. The main works of this period are the paintings "the meeting of the village of the cell" (1924) and "School workers" (1925). The painting "the Meeting of the rural cell" criticism appreciated as the achievement of realistic painting, the picture has participated in the exhibition "the Best works of Soviet artists" in 1939, the State Tretyakov gallery. The picture of the "School workers" (in many sources it is also called "Retraining of teachers") is a collective portrait of teachers in the village of Medvenka, acquaintances of the artist. Both paintings Cheptsov so truthful and real that have historical and documentary value. A significant place in the works of H occupy landscapes in which the artist captures the vast open spaces of the homeland. Fond of him and Kursk. During world war II he created the painting "the Last news from the front", "In the days of war," etc., devoted to homefront workers. After the war, he headed the Department of painting of the Leningrad Academy of arts, and then worked at the graphic art faculty of Moscow pedagogical Institute. Vladimir Potemkin.

Leaf H, written in his native place: "the meeting of the village of the cell" (1924), "Retraining of teachers" (1925), is stored in the State. The Tretyakov gallery. Written in the 1920s, the painting "the day of cooperation in the village" - in the State. The Russian Museum. In the Kursk regional art gallery named after A. A. Deineka on display: "woman portrait" (1910), "Girlfriends" (Medvenka, 1918), "Among the family" (1945), etc. At home H. in 1982 opened the house-Museum of his name (the branch of the Kursk picture gallery), which holds about 30 paintings by the artist.

He was born on 10 January (new style) 1875 in the village of Medvenka Kursk province. His father was alarm and painter. The boy soon began to help him, then show him his outstanding ability to draw. The father sent his son to study in the iconographic school of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Twenty E. chepcov went "to work" in St. Petersburg. Worked as an artist in magazines, and later entered the workshop, one of the founders of which was Ilya Repin. In 1903 chepcov makes first trip abroad, takes part in painting the Church in Florence.

From 1905 to 1911 M. E. chepcov studying at the Academy of fine arts. A strong influence on the formation of his views and skills had taught at the Academy great artists I. E. Repin, V. E. Makovsky.

In 1911 the code for the painting "the doctor" M. E. chepcov received the title of artist and the right to overseas komandirovku. He visits the art museums of Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Florence, Rome, and then settled on the island of Capri. Here the artist became acquainted with A. M. Gorky. A number of his works chepcov dedicated to Italy.

Return to Russia, M. E. chepcov in the winter living in Petrograd, and in summer she comes back Home in Medvenka. He makes numerous sketches, sketches. The artist is well remembered the parting words of the great Repin: "do Not write Italy, please write Kursk province". In his works of this time chepcov truly shows the hard life of the Russian peasantry.

In Medvenka chepcov met the news of the great October revolution, where he lived and worked in the first years of Soviet power. The artist keenly looks at the awakened life-giving breath of the revolution, the rural reality, he is actively involved in cultural and educational work in rural areas, creates an Amateur theatre group.

In 1922, E. M. chepcov is leaving for permanent residence in Leningrad, where he joined the Association of artists of revolutionary Russia (AHRR). But later chepcov often came home, had lived in Medvenka. Native Kursk land was his source of new impressions and enriched with new topics.

Created by E. M. Casovym in the years 1924-1926 painting "Meeting of the rural cell", "Training teachers", "the day of cooperation in the village" was one of the first works of Soviet art of the post-revolutionary village. They attracted widespread public attention keen interest of the author to the new social and cultural phenomena of rural life, accuracy of details of everyday life, a realistic depiction of the appearance and deeper disclosure of the characters of the new young Soviet society.

Noting the advantages of paintings by E. M. Cheptsov "Meeting of the rural cell", deeper disclosure of the characters depicted in her new village people, rural Communists, Lunacharsky wrote. "Standing before this picture, involuntarily talking to myself here, those who contributed most to the victory of the revolution! And unwittingly imbued with love for these people, after reading books Furmanov."

Chepcov, and later wrote works on the theme of rural life. In many of his paintings ("Harvesting", "Weeding beets"), he sought to convey the joy of peaceful labor, of Nov the village collective.

Efim Mikhailovich was a great portraitist and a master of landscape. On his canvases vividly displayed the beauty of nature native and infinitely dear to him of the Kursk region.

Widely known paintings by E. M. Cheptsov, devoted to the great Patriotic war: "the Latest news from the front," "Among the family". In them the artist captures the harsh heroics of that terrible time, the courage of the heroes of the front and rear workers forge victory over insidious and powerful enemy. Speaking of these characters, Efim Mikhailovich emphasized that their creation had sought "to a great simplicity and sophistication in the development of the theme".

Efim Mikhailovich was engaged in teaching. Many of his students became famous artists.

In 1946, E. M. Cheptsov was awarded the honorary title of the honored worker of arts of RSFSR.

Many of the works of E. M. Cheptsov, created in different periods of art, exhibited in the Kursk regional art gallery named after AA Deineka. On the Kursk earth people live, which served as the prototype for the hero of many works of great masters.

The artist continued to work until the last days of his life.

(the author - M. Shekhirev)

EMELYANTSEVA Efim I. E. chepcov. - M.-L.: Sov. the artist, 1948. -18 C

KATZ P. M. M. E. chepcov. - Voronezh: Tsentr.-Black earth. kN. publishing house, 1965. - 11 - (the Kursk. region art gallery)

RUSSIAN Soviet art: (Painting, sculpture, graphics). -M.: Art, 1954.