Boris Ioganson

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Boris Ioganson in 1933

Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (

Soviet
painter and educator.

Biography

Ioganson was born on 25 July [

Russified
the surname "Johansson" into "Ioganson".

In 1919-1922 he worked as a stage designer in the theaters of Krasnoyarsk and Alexandria (Kherson province). During the Civil War, he was an officer in the White Army and served with Kolchak. He ended up in a typhoid hospital and, finally, entered the service of the Red Army. According to the memoirs of the artist A. S. Smirnov, who knew the artist, the last, honored officer in the army of Kolchak.[1]

Ioganson attended the

Socialist Realism. Ioganson's work was inspired by that of Repin, that is exhibiting certain features of Impressionism, and was often narrative in nature. Possibly his best-known work was "Interrogation of the Communists" a piece thoroughly representative of Socialist Realism but with piercing elements of Romanticism, in addition to an exploitation of some elements of Futurism. A sense of theatricality is present in his paintings, probably due to his studies of theater design under Korovin
.

He died on 25 February 1973.

Pupils

Some graduates of Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (now known as St. Petersburg Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) studied at the Boris Ioganson Workshop (active from 1930 to 1950s) in Moscow. His notable students included Alexey Eriomin, Nikolai Baskakov, Valery Vatenin, Nina Veselova, Maya Kopitseva, Oleg Lomakin, Valentina Monakhova, Nikolai Mukho, Anatoli Nenartovich, Mikhail Natarevich, Semion Rotnitsky, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, Knarik Vardanyan,[3] and Felix Lembersky.

Bibliography

  • Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print, 2007. - p. 447.
    ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7
    .

References

  1. ^ Smirnov, Alexei (2006). "Conspiracy of the undercut". magazines.gorky.media.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8161-8911-3
    .
  3. ^ "- Քնարիկ Վարդանյան" [Knarik Vardanyan]. AVProduction.am (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
  • A History of Russian Painting, Alan Bird


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