“Boris Kalaushin, The Artist” (kalaushinboris.webs.com, 2009)

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Boris was born in Leningrad on 6 August 1929 […]. His father, the son of the Labinskaya saddler, worked from 1931 at Pushkin House — the Institute of…

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…Secondary Art School of the Academy of Arts in 1939–1941 and 1944–1949 (from 1940, according to the roster) […]. From 1950 to 1956 he studied in the graphic arts faculty of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and…

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…Tamara Georgiyevna Kalaushina (d. 2004); the roster records a wife, Elionora (1931–1995), and a son, Sergey […]. △ The two dates of death (1995 and 2004) do not contradict each other: Boris Matveyevich may have been…

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…note, the influence of his predecessors can still be seen, but he soon found a “decorative” style of his own […]. Books with his illustrations were published not only in Russia but in Lithuania, Georgia, Germany, Romania…

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…Graphic Artists in the “Hall on the Okhta”. He had solo exhibitions in 1972, 1975, 1990, 1991, 1997 and 1998 […]; △ those of the 1970s were, it seems, of his graphic work. In 1987 and 1992 he took part in large…

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…took place at the Pushkin museum on the Moika, 12 — the very museum whose first director his father had been […]. In 1996, on his initiative, the Apollon gallery opened at 13 Millionnaya Street and ran until early 2000…

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…Protection of Monuments of Architecture, History and Culture of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists […]. As the roster records, it was thanks to him that new life was given to the Nicholas Roerich House-Museum at…

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…among the founders of the Apollon publishing house […]. She edited the website about her brother (2009) […], compiled with him the collection Kotenka-kotok: Grandmother’s Songs, published with his drawings in 2011 [◈…

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…portrait of Boris Kalaushin on the family website is captioned as the work of the artist Nikolay Firtich […], and an N. Firtich is also listed among the artists of the Apollon gallery […]. △…

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Boris Matveyevich died on 10 June 1999 […]. ◇ As the roster records, he did not quite live to see his seventieth birthday or a planned solo exhibition;…

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…in the Matyushin House (2008, The Living Organics of Form) and in the United States (November 2008) […]. From 17 September to 17 October 2015 the Green Hall of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum on the Moika, 12,…

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…the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the private collections of H. Neuhoff (USA) and J. Howard (UK) […]; the All-Russian Pushkin Museum also names the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of the Academy of Arts [◈…

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…The artist’s sister, Yuliya Matveyevna Firtich […], edited a website devoted to him in 2009 […], and in 2015 the All-Russian Pushkin Museum mounted the exhibition “Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to…