Stanislav Roerich Biography

The plot paintings of S. his brushes belong to several thousand paintings decorating the best museums of Europe, America and Asia. Svyatoslav Nikolaevich was born in the year in St. Petersburg in the family of Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich - the world famous artist, the largest public figure, fighter for peace and culture. In the incomplete sixteen years of Svyatoslav Roerich, in order to exclude, they accepted at the Columbia University for the architectural department, after which he continued his studies at the Architectural School at Harvard University.

Svyatoslav Nikolaevich holds exhibitions of progressive artists, gives lectures, is engaged in social activities related to preparations for the adoption of the Covenant Roerich and the Banner of the World. It is part of many cultural and scientific societies of America and Europe. After graduating from studying in America, Svyatoslav Nikolayevich moves to India and settles with his parents in an old house in Nughar, in the Kulu Valley.

In the Urusvati Himalayan studies founded by N. Roerich, he leads the department of pharmacopei. The range of his research activity is unusually wide. He is engaged in archeology, chemistry, mineralogy, comparative religious studies. He is fond of paleontology, ornithology. At the Urusvati Research Institute, it leads the work on botany, ornithology, studies ancient medical treatises, organizes local expeditions to collect plants.

He studies cultural monuments, creates experimental plantations of medicinal plants, collects and studies ancient manuscripts, folklore, collects works of Central Asian and Indian art, conducts expeditions, writes articles on painting and art of various areas of India. In all these areas of knowledge, he manifests himself as a talented researcher and inquisitive scientist.

Always interested in the problems of education, the artist took an active part in the organization and work of the children's art school-boarding school. Aurobindo Ghosh in Bangalore. After the death of his father, in the year, Svyatoslav Nikolaevich constantly lives on the Tatguni estate in the south of India. He is engaged in essential cultures, supplies essential oils for the perfume industry to Switzerland and France.

In the year, at the invitation of the Soviet government, Svyatoslav comes to his homeland. During the stay of Svyatoslav Nikolaevich in Moscow, his brother suddenly died-Yu. The artist passes the unique library of his brother to the Institute of Oriental Studies, where they open the memorial office of Professor Yu. In the year, having arrived in the solemn celebration of the Flight of N.

Roerich from the Assembly of the American employee Catherine Campbell-Sistibbe, whom she passed As a gift to the homeland of Nikolai Konstantinovich. In one of his visits to the Soviet Union, his meeting was held with M. Gorbachev, as a result of which a decision was made to create the Museum N. Roerich, a branch of the State Museum of the East. Svyatoslav Roerich is not only a large and original artist, but also a deep thinker.

Svyatoslav Nikolaevich affirmed the great role of beauty in the life of mankind: “I believe that it was the search for beauty, which led the ancient art of almost all ancient countries, gave the world their remarkable achievements. Searching for beauty is what will bring people closer and save the world. ” For his multifaceted activity, S. Roerich was awarded many awards and was elected a member of various scientific, public and cultural organizations around the world.

Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Roerich passed away on January 30 in the city of Bangalore South India, leaving people an example of aspiration for beauty, as a basis of moral improvement. Roerich feels a huge creative range of the artist: in addition to portrait, he turns to landscape, epic, genre and symbolic painting, and in everything manifests himself as a virtuoso master and inspired experimenter.

The impeccable honeness of the drawing and the perfection of the technique of execution cause the best achievements of old European masters in memory. Nagar, Kulu, the art of Svyatoslav Roerich, who absorbed the centuries -old traditions of the West and East, can not only satisfy exquisite elitist tastes, but, first of all, it is understandable and attractive to ordinary viewers.

Contrary to all fashion trends, it remains frankly clear and simple; His ideas immediately capture the soul of every inexperienced person. However, the artist admitted that it is completely difficult to achieve this: “But just as it is difficult, it is sometimes impossible to express in words what we feel in the depths of our hearts is just as difficult, even more difficult to realize this in two dimensions of the canvas, the artist constantly finds interesting motives that inspire plots.

The country of dreams does not run out like a living spring that hits in unison with the heart of the artist ”E. Roerich, first of all, is striking in the unusual brightness - the hill of colorful combinations, the luminous" Roerich "tones. It seems that all the colors of the world have absorbed the artist's palette. The radiant rainbow inflorescences, sheaves of the lungs, like sparks, yellow strokes create a feeling of light of the southern sun.

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