Nikolay
Konstantinovich Solomin

Russia • 1916−1999

Biography and information

Painter, Nar. hood. Of the RSFSR. Graduated From Moscow. hood. Uch-school them.1905 (1936) and Moscow. hood. in-t (1948). War veteran, was in captivity. Lived and worked in Moscow. Participant of exhibitions since 1950. Thematic paintings, portraits, landscapes are "Partisans" (1946), "Decree on land" (1957), "Came from the war" (1967), "Old Moscow. The view from the window" (1967), "a Native Muscovite K. I. Samarin" (1968), "Red square" (1970), "Kalyazin. Landscape" (1972), "the village Council" (1974), "Natasha in Russian costume" (1981), "Corner Studio" (1984), etc.

People's Artist of the RSFSR.

In 1936 he graduated from the State artistic-pedagogical College of the memory of 1905, class of Professor N. P. Krymov. After graduating from College arrives at MGHI them. V. I. Surikov. But in the life of an artist for a long time the war intervened. Ordinary 18th division of the National Militia (the formation of the division was held in Moscow on the place where now stands the hotel "Soviet") N. Solomin went through the war to Berlin, visited the prisoner.

Returning from the war, completed his studies at the Institute (professors S. V. Gerasimov, G. G. Ryazhsky) in 1948 and was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.

All-Union fame artist brought the paintings on the theme of rural life "Decree on land", "Returned from war", "Responsible job", " can't wait." A separate place in the works of N. Solomin took the portrait genre.

In 1976, 1985 and 2000 (in memory N. Solomin) . solo exhibitions of the artist held in Moscow. His works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, more than 20 Art Museums of the former USSR.