Pavel Naumov

Also known under the pseudonym Zastupets - Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, theater artist, teacher, professor at the Academy of Arts of the USSR. From the age of 13 he studied in the workshop of M.F. Buda in Nizhyn, later - in the private Kyiv drawing school N.I. Murashko,... and then - at the Kiev Art School. In 1904 he entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg as a volunteer and, having graduated from it in 1911 in the workshop of Dmitry Kardovsky, received the title of artist for the painting “Rebekah and Elizar”. Living in St. Petersburg, Naumov painted still lifes, landscapes, paintings on mythological and biblical subjects. From 1911 to 1914, according to the sketches of Nicholas Roerich, he painted the temple of the Holy Spirit in the village of Talashkino near Smolensk. In 1912, together with other artists, he designed the scenery for the play "Pierre Gynt" for the Moscow Art Theater. P.S. Naumov exhibited since 1901. Participated in exhibitions of associations: "Wreath" (1908, 1910), "Union of Russian Artists" (1909, 1915), "World of Art" (1909), "Golden Fleece" (1909-1910), "Union of Youth" (1910) , "Society of Individualist Artists" (1921), "Community of Artists" (1921-1925), "Sixteen" (1924-1927), "AHR" (1928). To date, very few of his paintings have survived, and they are stored mainly in private collections. In 1911-1916 he taught at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts (Petersburg), in 1921-1923 and from 1926 to 1942 he taught at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, from 1932 he was the head of the faculty of painting, from 1934 - Head of the Department of Painting.

Also Known As:

Павел Семёнович НаумовПавел НаумовS.G. NaumovС.Г. НаумовSemyon NaumovСемён Наумов