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Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (Russian:Борис Владимирович Иогансон, 25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1893 – 25 February 1973) also commonly known asB. V. Johanson, was a Russian andSoviet painter and educator.
Ioganson was born on 25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1893 inMoscow. His father's Swedish ancestorsRussified the surname "Johansson" into "Ioganson".
In 1919-1922 he worked as a stage designer in thetheaters of Krasnoyarsk and Alexandria (Kherson province). During theCivil War, he was an officer in theWhite Army and served withKolchak. 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 ofKolchak.[1]
Ioganson attended theMoscow School of Art, and studied underKelin,Kasatkin andMalyutin.[2] He was a member of the Society of Young Artists, where he argued for a complete transference of Russian art toConstructivism. He soon abandoned this cause and took up easel painting. In 1922, he helped found theAssociation of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, and abruptly transferred into the realm ofSocialist Realism. Ioganson's work was inspired by that ofRepin, that is exhibiting certain features ofImpressionism, 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 ofRomanticism, in addition to an exploitation of some elements ofFuturism. A sense of theatricality is present in his paintings, probably due to his studies of theater design underKorovin.
He died on 25 February 1973.
Some graduates ofIlya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (now known as St. Petersburg Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) studied at theBoris 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.
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