23 Facts About Nikolai Timkov

Nikolai Efimovich Timkov was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.

Nikolai Timkov lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, worldwide known for his landscape paintings.

Nikolai Efimovich Timkov was born on 12 August 1912 at a settlement of Nakhichevanskaya Dacha close to Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire.

Parents died in 1924, when Nikolai was twelve years old.

In 1927, Nikolai Timkov finished 8 grades of secondary school and enrolled in the Rostov Art College, which was headed by A Chinenov, who was landscape painter, a pupil of Vasily Polenov and a big fan of Isaac Levitan.

Nikolai Timkov worked in "Izogiz" edition as a general worker, then enrolled at the Association "Vsekohudozhnik" as an artist-designer.

Nikolai Timkov studied with Mikhail Bernshtein, Arcady Rylov, Alexander Lubimov, and Vladimir Serov.

In 1939 Nikolai Timkov graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Isaak Brodsky workshop with the rank of artist of painting.

Nikolai Timkov's degree work was a painting titled The Day off in suburb.

Nikolai Timkov participated in the Exhibition of the defenders of Leningrad, in the Exhibition titled "The Heroics of Soviet Front and Rear" in Moscow at the Tretyakov Gallery in 1943, as well as creating the greatest during the war years Exhibition "The Heroic defense of Leningrad", opened in 1944 and marked the beginning of the Museum of Defense of Leningrad.

Nikolai Timkov was awarded the medals "For Defense of Leningrad", and "For Victory over Germany".

In 1943, Nikolai Timkov has been accepted in members of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.

Nikolai Timkov painted landscapes, genre paintings, worked in watercolors and oil painting.

Since the late 1940s, Nikolai Timkov become the constant participant of Leningrad, Republican, and All-Union Art Exhibitions, including All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 in Moscow, devoted to the 40th Anniversary of the October Revolution.

Nikolai Timkov was entirely under the influence of the 19th-century Russian landscape painters.

Nikolai Timkov's painting becomes decorative, pattern and shapes becomes more generalized.

Nikolai Timkov not stop the quest for his identity until the last years of life, and are critical to the deal has been painted by him earlier.

Nikolai Timkov painted banks of Msta River and Mstino Lake, and nearby villages Kotchische, Bolshoy Gorodok, Maliy Gorodok, Podol, Kisharino, Terpigorevo.

In 1982 in Moscow in the halls of the Moscow House of Artists at the street of Kuznetsky Bridge successfully hosted an exhibition of works by Nikolai Timkov shown later both in the Gagarin Air Force Academy and in Stars City.

In 1987 Nikolai Timkov was awarded an honorable title of Honored Artist of Russian Federation.

Nikolai Efimovich Timkov died on 25 December 1993 in Saint Petersburg in the 82nd year of life.

Nikolai Timkov devoted two monographs published in the US Exhibitions of his works were held in San Francisco, Aspen, New York, Scottsdale, Palm Beach, Vail, Washington and other cities.

An article for the album entitled Happy Nikolai Timkov was written by Alexander Borovsky.