Baqi Urmançe

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Baqi Urmance
Бакый Урманче
Baqi Urmançe
People's Artist of the Russian SFSR
  • Ğabdulla Tuqay Tatar ASSR State Prize

    • Urmançe Ğäbdelbaqí İdris ulı (pronounced

    People's Artist of the Russian SFSR (1982), and laureate of the Ğabdulla Tuqay Tatar ASSR State Prize (1967).[1]

    Early life

    He was born on February 23, 1897, in Kül Çerkene, a village in the modern

    madrassah. Studying at the madrassa, he became interested in Oriental languages and Tatar poetry. Ğabdulla Tuqay's poetry particularly impressed him. Other hobbies of his included drawing and playing the violin. However, Urmançe failed to pass the entrance examinations for the Kazan Artist school, so in 1914 he began to work as a loader in the Urals and afterward in Siberia
    . In 1916, he was mobilized into the army. But his violin, pencil, and water-colors were always with him.

    During the

    Arabic, Turkish, and Persian, and began to study Western languages. Urmançe returned to Kazan in 1926 where he became a teacher at the Kazan Artist Secondary school. He also took part in the reconstruction of the Kazan Art School. Between 1926 and 1929 he lectured at the school and worked in the areas of drawing, etching and illustration. Urmançe attempted to restore the tradition of ceramic production in Kazan.[2]

    Exiles

    His successful work was interrupted in 1929, when he was arrested and exiled to the

    Bashkir ASSR
    . Urmançe has managed to find the expressive decision, in which basis the idea of a round dance laid.

    In 1941–1949 he was sent on administrative exile to

    Toshkent, Almaty and Balkhash. Urmançe portrayed many Central Asian individuals in his work and painted many Central Asian landscapes. In 1952 he designed the House of Culture for the Balkhash Copper-Smelting Factory. Between 1949 and 1958 he lived in the Uzbek capital, working at the Toshkent Theatre and Art Institute. In 1956 he organized the sculpture department there.[2]

    Return

    1958 was the most significant date in Urmançe's creative destiny. After a long absence, he moved to Kazan and began a constant residence. He was already sixty years old.

    There is a remarkable art heritage for him. The people of Tatarstan carefully revere the memory of the man who represented an entire epoch in the development of the art culture of the Tatar people. He died at the age of 93 on August 6, 1990. He was fully exonerated and buried in the Yaña-Tatar Bistäse (Novotatarskoye) cemetery in Kazan.[2]

    A monument to Urmançe was erected in 1996, the museum in Kazan has been in operation since 1998.[1]

    Major works

    Paintings: Near the separator (1928), triptych Tatarstan (1976, 1985), Saltıq Meadow (1979); sculpture: Grief (1966), Spring Melodies (1968), Tulpar (1968); portraits of Tatar cultural workers, memorial complex of Ğabdulla Tuqay in village of Qırlay (1976), graphic illustration on poetry of Därdämänd häm Tuqay (1954–1968); the first manual of artistic education in the Tatar language (Moscow, 1924), several articles on art.[1]

    Notes

    1. ^
      Republic of Tatarstan
      Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.
    2. ^ a b c Urmançe bio Archived December 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

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