Michel Moskovtchenko
Michel Moskovtchenko | |
|---|---|
 Self portrait of Moskovtchenko (2017) | |
| Born | 6 January 1935 |
| Died | 21 March 2025 (aged 90) Apt, France |
| Education | École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon |
| Occupations | Painter Sculptor Illustrator |
Michel Moskovtchenko (6 January 1935 – 21 March 2025) was a French painter, sculptor, illustrator, and engraver.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Tarare on 6 January 1935, Moskovtchenko's father emigrated from Russia in 1920 and his mother was a French woman who had graduated from Springfield College in the United States. While in primary school, he used the Freinet method to engrave his first linocuts.[2] After his studies at the Collège moderne et technique de Tarare, during which he attended the evening classes of Eugène Riboulet,[3] he created his first illustrations at the Établissements G. Corsin in Lyon.[4] At the same time, he took evening classes at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon under Pierre Pelloux and Antoine Chartres. From 1954 to 1956, he lived in the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia before living in the Luberon until 1960.[5] In 1968, he moved to Gordes with his friend Hans Steffens and established his engraving workshop.[6] In 1975, he founded an intaglio workshop in Grenoble.[7]
Throughout his career, Moskovtchenko applied practices of "artistic geology".[8] He was considered one of the leaders of the New Subjectivity movement by Jean Clair. He received artistic praise from the likes of Hanns Theodor Flemming,[9] Jean-Noël Vuarnet,[10] Jean-Pierre Geay,[11] Jean-Jacques Lévêque,[12] Bruno Marcenac,[13] Michèle Crozet,[14] Gérard Xuriguera,[15] Benezit,[16] and Jean-Jacques Larrant.[17]
Moskovtchenko died in Apt on 21 March 2025, at the age of 90.[18][19]
Works
[edit]Paintings
[edit]- Paysages et arbres autour de Tarare (1949–1953)
- Les Voyages, les musées, la Grand-Place de Bruxelles (1956–1958)
- Les Bateaux : Le Pirée, Schéveningue (1956–1958)
- Les Hameaux en ruine en Provence (1965–1969)
- Les Hurdes en Espagne (1965–1969)
- Série des Murs (1970)
- Les Cèdres dans l'Atlas (1974–1980)
- Le Cirque de Mourèze (1974–1980)
- Les Muriers (1974–1980)
- Les Autoportraits (1978–2017)
- Carrières à Carrare (1982–1986)
- Carrières à Lacoste (1982–1986)
- Venise (1982–1986)
- Hoggar (1986)
- Nus (1988–2017)
- L'atelier (1988–2017)
- Les labours (1988–2017)
- Les Maladrets (1988–2017)
- L'Afrique (1988–2017)
- Paysages de Transylvanie (2006)
- Le Luberon (2006–2008)
- Le chêne bleu (2006–2007)
- Souvenirs de Grèce (2007)
Illustrations
[edit]- Grèce, Saint-Tropez, Bruxelles, La Haye, Banyuls, Collioure (1957–1958)
- Île Barbe, Monts d'Or, Provence (1959)
- Série des Nus (1960)
- Série du Choléra (1976)
- Série des Arbres (1977)
- Dessins aux trois crayons sur papier teinté (1980–2017)
- Série Commémoration du massacre des Vaudois (1990)
- Encre de Chine et gouache sur papier indien froissé (2013–2017)
Mixed techniques
[edit]- Pastel et acrylique sur fragments de gravure (1978–2017)
- Couleur en poudre, encre de Chine et acrylique sur feuilles 63 × 90 cm
Engravings
[edit]- Premiers paysages (1963–1965)
- Études (1964)
- Premiers nus (1963–1965)
- Nus-paysages (1967–1968)
- Autres paysages (1969–1970)
- Les Oliviers (1971)
- Les Murs (1971–1974)
- Paysages et autres gravures (1972–1975)
- Arbres (1975–1978)
- Le chêne à Saby (1979)
- Autres paysages (1978–1992)
- Les Monges et Suite huit petits nus (1993–2000)
- Petits cuivres (1996–1997)
- Nouveaux paysages (1998–2006)
Sculptures
[edit]- Première Baba (1976)
- Les sphinx (1981)
- Les Babas destroyes (1985)
- Les pleureuses (1995)
- Sainte Sarah (1995)
- La pétanqueuse (1999)
- Sous la douche (1999)
- Hommage à Donatello (2008)
- David, l'enfant soldat (2010)
- La migrante (2015)
Intaglio
[edit]- Album du Lubéron (1966)
- Les nus paysage (1974)
- Les carrières de Lacoste - Hommage à Piranèse (1979)
- Pins Sylvestre (1994)
- Ravins érotiques (2001)[20]
Awards
[edit]- Prix de gravure de la ville de Toulon (1978)[16]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Gérard Schleich peintre des ocres". Facebook (in French). 21 March 2025.
- ↑ Moskovtchenko - Dessins, gravures (in French). Lyon: Éditions du Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique. 1996.
- ↑ Brunel, Philippe (2018). Michel Moskovtchenko - Catalogue des estampes, 1963-2010 (in French). Cavaillon: an de Maere/Galerie Ories, Lyon/Imprimerie Rimbaud.
- ↑ Delarge, Jean-Pierre. Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains (in French).
- ↑ Moskovtchenko, biographie (in French). Lyon: Imprimeurs réunis. 1974.
- ↑ Michel Moskovtchenko, in Le désespoir du peintre (in French). Grenoble: Maison de la culture de Grenoble. 1976.
- ↑ Gérôme, Elyane (1978). Moskovtchenko (in French). Lyon: Éditions du Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon.
- ↑ "Exposition de Michel Moskovtchenko (Nature et forme) et de Christophe Licoppe (Instants)". Out.be (in French). Archived from the original on 2 March 2016.
- ↑ Fleming, Hanns Theodor (8 July 1964). "Michel Moskovtchenko". Die Welt (in German).
- ↑ Vuarnet, Jean-Noël (1972). Michel Moskovtchenko (in French). Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Le Soleil dans la tête.
- ↑ Geay, Jean-Pierre (1973). Michel Moskovtchenko (in French). Privas: Éditions de la ville de Privas.
- ↑ Lévêque, Jean-Jacques (1974). Moskovtchenko (in French). Lyon: Imprimeurs réunis.
- ↑ Marcenac, Bruno (1974). Moskovtchenko (in French). Lyon: Imprimeurs réunis.
- ↑ Crozet, Michèle (1975). Moskovtchenko (in French). Grenoble: Éditions de la Maison de la Culture de Grenoble. p. 3.
- ↑ Xuriguera, Gérard (1983). Regard sur la peinture contemporaine - La création picturale de 1945 à nos jours (in French). Arted.
- 1 2 Dictionnaire Bénézit (in French). Vol. 9. Gründ. 1999. p. 890.
- ↑ Larrant, Jean-Jacques (2001). Ravins érotiques (in French). Villerbaunne: U.R.D.L.A.
- ↑ "legrasquentin92". Instagram (in French). 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "Moskovchenko". MatchID. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
- ↑ "Michel Moskovtchenko". U.R.D.L.A. (in French).
- 1935 births
- 2025 deaths
- 20th-century French painters
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- French illustrators
- French engravers
- 20th-century French sculptors
- 21st-century French sculptors
- École des Beaux-Arts alumni
- French people of Russian descent
- 20th-century French male painters
- 21st-century French male painters
- 20th-century French male sculptors
- 21st-century French male sculptors