Evgeny Klimov biography

New York, the USA is an artist. The fate of Yevgeny Klimov is inextricably linked with Latvia. Here he was born, studied at the Academy of Arts, took place as an artist and teacher, left his students here. His childhood passed in different cities of the Baltic states and Warsaw. He spent his school years in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the gymnasium in the south, in Novocherkassk, and he took the first independent steps already in Riga, the capital of the young Latvian Republic.

According to family tradition, Evgeny Klimov wanted to become an architect, but he, a non -lady who knew the language poorly, was ordered to architecture. And then he entered the Academy of Arts in the workshop of figure painting of Professor Janis Tilberg. Tilberg himself studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and paid special attention to the accuracy of the drawing.

Evgeny Klimov left the Academy for a year as an excellent draftsman and a thin painter. The course of the history of art was read by Professor Boris Vipper, a Russian scientist with a world -famous name. However, in poor Latvia, pure work was a pipe dream. Klimov finds himself in pedagogical work. For more than ten years, he has been teaching the drawing and history of art in Lomonosovskaya later - in the government Russian gymnasium.

And at the same time works as an artist. In the Baltic states, Klimov is looking for his own, Russian - people, customs, antiquity. The albums of his lithographs are reflected not only by the corners of Old Riga and other cities of Latvia, which were part of us, but also the views of the Pechora Territory, which were part of those days in those days. The ancient ruins of Izborsk, the churches of the Pskov -Pechersky Monastery, Russian villages - all this is lovingly painted and laid by Klimov on the canvas.

The album “In the Pechora Territory” he published in Riga received a lot of enthusiastic responses, including from such prominent figures of Russian culture of abroad as philosopher Ivan Ilyin, writer Ivan Shmelev, artist and art critic Benois. Over the ten pre -war years, Klimov published nine albums of lithographs. A separate article is devoted to the artist in the reference book of Latvian fine art, which contains a high assessment of his work.

The artist gave a lot of effort to icon painting, the study and restoration of ancient icons. They wrote about him as a “tested, knowledgeable and inspired icon painter”, whose style is “strict in relation to the composition, accurate by drawing, bright and joyful in color”. In the mosaic technique, he made the image of John the Baptist, decorating the chapel of the Pokrovsky Orthodox cemetery.

During the war, Klimov continues to work. He teaches at the gymnasium, travels a lot and draws everywhere - as if saying goodbye to his homeland. In the year in Riga, he makes a sketch of the mosaic icon of the “Holy Trinity”, on the motive of the “Trinity” of Rublevskaya, in order to present it as a gift to the Pskov Holy Trinity Cathedral. At his own expense, he orders the technical performance of the icon in one of the best workshops of Europe.

By some miracle, the finished icon was delivered at the destination. In the year, having received an invitation to the Prague Archaeological Institute. Kondakova, take the position of a restorer of icons, the artist leaves Latvia. As it turned out, forever. Having crept around in the cities of Europe, he and his family go to Canada, where he spends the second half of his life.

In North America, Klimov continued the activities of the artist and teacher. Here, as in Latvia, recognition was waiting for him. In the Canadian Artists' reference book, Evgeny Klimov’s contribution to the art of this country is celebrated for the year. Klimov is the author of more publications, among which the book “Russian Artists” stands out, published for the first time in New York in the year.

The Russian artist believed that art is associated with moral requests and the thirst for truth, that beauty, goodness and truth cannot go back, but essentially coincide. ” His art has the same amazing property. Alexander Malnach P. The genealogy Evgenia Evgenievich Klimov deserves attention, because family traditions have largely determined his fate.

On the paternal line, the artist was Ivan Ivanovich Klimov - a famous St. Petersburg architect, academician. In his honor, one of the lanes of this wonderful city is named. His grandfather Alexander Ivanovich Klimov was also a famous architect engineer, so it is not surprising that Architecture was the youthful dream of Eugene. However, due to the circumstances, he chose painting and art history.

The father of the future artist, Evgeny Alexandrovich, did not follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University. However, we can assume that this choice did not bring him true satisfaction. Throughout his life, his hobby was all kinds of cultural events, to which he managed to introduce his sons. Their sons were born in the same city: Konstantin, George, Pavel and Junior Evgeny Evgeny Alexandrovich Klimov with his wife Maria Alexandrovna Urophant.

Kunts and children George and Konstantin. The archive of A. in the year moved to the service in the Courland excise management.In the year, Evgeny Alexandrovich received the place of an excise inspector in Libava Liepai, where his whole family moved with him. In Libava, the Klimovs lived up to a year. Here Evgeny Klimov received the first basics of school knowledge.

In the mentioned year, Klimov’s father was appointed to the Warsaw province. For ten years, the Klimovs' connection with Latvia was interrupted by the ancestor of the artist was the famous carriage master Johann Kunst, brought from Germany to work at the Russian Imperial Court. Over time, his Russified descendants began to wear the surname Kunta. The grandfather of the artist was a doctor, a graduate of the Derpt Yuryev University Alexander Ivanovich Kunts, who worked at the initial stage of his career in the Far East, in Nakhodka.

There he married the Ussuri Cossack Tatyana Vasilievna Fedoreeva.