Sailor, artist, man. Vladimir Golitsyn

In the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art from June 16 to August 1, 2017 the exhibition "Sailor, artist, man. Vladimir Golitsyn. " The artist’s works are distinguished by a vivid plot painting on propaganda themes, reflecting the era of the first decades of Soviet power.

Decorative insert for the screen in 1924. Wood, painting, varnish. Exhibit of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. VMDPNI collection

Vladimir Golitsyn is a descendant of one of the most famous princely families of Russia, an outstanding artist of decorative art, illustrator, graphic artist, as well as a polar explorer and inventor. Performed work commissioned by the Central Handicraft Museum in Moscow. At the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, he received a Gold Medal for painting two wooden caskets.

Editions illustrated by Vladimir Golitsyn supplement the subject line of the exposition; infographics made by him for the Dmitrov Museum; Newsreel of Moscow life in the 1920s. The originals of the documents related to the arrests of the artist were transferred to the exhibition by the International Memorial. An important place in the exhibition is occupied by objects provided by the grandson of the artist - Ivan Illarionovich Golitsyn.

The exhibition will show archival documents and film frames.

Decorative dish "Red Army man" 1924. Wood, turning, painting, varnish. Exhibit of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. VMDPNI collection

Case "Destroyer" Komsomolets "" 1925. Wood, painted Collection VMDPNI

About the artist

Vladimir Golitsyn, grandson of the Moscow mayor of Prince V.M. Golitsyn, was born in the small village of Buchalki in the Tula province in 1902. After graduating from the 5th Moscow gymnasium, where he begins to get involved in drawing, he moves to Bogoroditsk with his family. There, Vladimir Mikhailovich runs the local poster workshop, works as a decorator in the theater, and participates in the creation of the posters “Windows of ROST” in Tula. In 1920, the artist takes part in an expedition to the Kola Peninsula, from where he brings a whole series of northern landscapes, and a year later, already as a sailor, he goes to Novaya Zemlya. Vladimir Golitsyn took part in the construction of the first Soviet research vessel Perseus.

In between travels, Vladimir Golitsyn worked in the Moscow workshop of the artist P.P. Konchalovsky, took lessons from K.F. Yuon, attended evening classes at VKhUTEMAS. During these years, the artist fruitfully collaborates with the Handicraft Museum in Moscow - at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1925, which became a triumph for young Soviet art, Vladimir Golitsyn received the Gold Medal for painting boxes.

Since 1924, he began working as an illustrator of children’s books and magazines, including World Ranger, Knowledge is Power, Round the World, and many others. After being expelled from the capital, together with his wife and children he moved to Dmitrov, where he works in the museum of local lore.

Dreaming of the sea, Vladimir Mikhailovich invents several board games for children in which he showed all his knowledge of the history of the fleet and shipbuilding. One of them - “Pirates” - is his friend, the artist P. D. Korin, showed in Moscow to Maxim Gorky, who volunteered to help print it. However, it was published only much later.

The noble origin of Vladimir Mikhailovich became the reason for his numerous arrests. Three times he was pulled out of prison by artist friends, letters for him were signed by the famous architect A.V. Shchusev. The fourth arrest ended tragically - in 1941 the artist was convicted and sent to a labor camp in Sviyazhsk, where he died of an illness a year later.

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