Nikolay Kasatkin

Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Каса́ткин; 13 December 1859,

Social Realism

in Russia.

Biography

Mine Worker (1897), used on a postage stamp in 1971

His father was an engraver and lithographer.^[1] From 1873 to 1883 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov.^[2] Upon graduating, he received a medal for his painting "Beggars at the Church Door".^[1]

In 1891, he began exhibiting with the Peredvizhniki and, from 1894 to 1917, was a teacher at his alma mater. For thirty years, beginning in 1883, he worked with Ivan Sytin, providing illustrations for his popular almanac/calendars and teaching lithography.^[2] He also contributed to Великая реформа [ru] (The Great Reform), an encyclopedia that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation, and a collection called "Russian History in Pictures".

In 1903, he became a member of the

Revolution of 1905

.

After the

AKhRR (Association of Artists).^[2]

In 1924, he went to

Socialist Realism in the arts and was sometimes called the "Gorky

of Painters".

He died suddenly while giving a presentation of his latest painting at the above Museum.[2] In 1956, the Soviet Union honored him with a 40 kopeck commemorative postage stamp. In 1971, his painting of a female mine worker was featured on a 6 kopeck stamp as part of a series of works by Soviet artists. A street in Moscow has been named after him.