Yazev Ivan

1914 — 2011

Ivan Yazev, People's Artist of the USSR, was born in 1914 on the river Don, in the Cossack village Romanovskaya, Rostov area. In 1931 he entered Rostov Arts and Crafts College where he studied under Alexander Chernykh, a friend of Vladimir Mayakovskiy and a disciple of K.А. Korovin, N.А. Kasatkin, А.P. Arkhipov. After graduation Yazev worked at Rostov Association of Artists "ROSTIZO" for three years and in 1938 he moved to Moscow where he went on to study at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov. He studied under famous Soviet artists А. Lentulov, А. Deineka, S.Gerasimov. The Great Patriotic War interrupted his studies.

After the war Ivan Yazev came back to Moscow and in 1948 he graduated from the institute. In the same year he became a member of the Moscow regional branch of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since that moment the artist took part in numerous exhibitions, including those in Moscow, in the Soviet republics and all-Union ones.

Having travelled a lot along the Volga-Don Canal, in Georgia, Armenia and Kirgizia the painter created plenty of talented artworks: "13^th lock of the Volga-Don Canal" (1952), "Armenia. Arzni" (1955), "Georgia. Svanetia. Mestia" (1955), "Kirgizia, Jayloo" (1965). Over years of creative activity Yazev produced a number of significant artworks which include still life, portraits and genre paintings, however, his talent showed up the brightest in lyrical landscape genre.

Artworks by Ivan Yazev are presented in the collections of Yaroslavl Art Museum, Chuvash State Art Museum (Cheboksary), Rostov Regional Fine Arts Museum (Rostov-on-Don), Volgodonsk Ecology and History Museum, and also in private collections both in Russia and abroad.