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Mykola Hlushchenko "Still life with a Glass Jar and a Bottle"
Paris 1920/30
Fauvism | Oil and Gouache on Paper | 11.69 x 16.53 inch
The Front View of the Painting
Ukrainian James Bond: a dandy, an artist and a spy
www.bbc.com/ukrainian/society/2015/11/151105_hlushchenko_...
Natalka Matyikhina
BBC Monitoring
13 November 2015
If someone decided to do a movie about his life, this film would be definitely as impressive and spectacular as the legendary 007 movies.
“A wonderful stature, he’s like made from muscles. He is a track and field champion. As a swimmer, he impresses even the people from Balearic Islands, who actually grew up by the sea. In the evening, when he wears his tuxedo though, he magically turns into a real dandy mingling with the international community in his hotel,” that was what the Parisian newspaper “Les Nouvelles litteráires” wrote about him in 1936.
“He treated women as a real Parisian. He knew how to speak to a woman and looked at her the way that she felt she was the most beautiful woman on Earth,” Tamara Boyko, the Executive General Manager of the “Culture” TV Channel, reminisced in her interview for the “Day” newspaper.
Meet Hlushchenko, Mykola Hlushchenko, a prominent Ukrainian artist, a people’s artist of USSR, a winner of the Shevchenko National Prize, pride and glory of Ukrainian visual arts, a “Ukrainian Monet”, and, in addition to that, an illegal Soviet spy operating under the code name “Yarema”.
Ukrainian immigrant
Native of current Dnipropetrovsk region, young Hlushchenko immigrated to Germany in 1919. He graduated from the private arts school and academy there.
In Berlin Hlushchenko met the future writer and filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who worked as a Soviet diplomat at that time. He was the one who recruited the beginner artists as a Soviet spy.
In 1924 Hlushchenko moved to Paris. There, on 23 Rue de Volontairs, with support of the Hetman of Ukrainian People’s Republic Pavlo Skoropadsky he opened an art studio. This art studio was frequently visited by the leaders of different Ukrainian immigrant groups, among them one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Dmytro Andrievsky and a Colonel of Ukrainian Galician Army Vasyl Vyshyvany.
Active social life and lots of connections helped Hlushchenko gather information about the activities of various “hostile anti-Soviet and nationalist organizations”.
Throwing eggs at Picasso
That was when Hlushchenko became friends with the Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vynnychenko. There is a theory that keeping him under surveillance was one of the tasks of the agent “Yarema”. Once Vynnychenko asked Hlushchenko to paint his summer house, and Hlushchenko painted it… drawing the portraits of Ukrainian hetmans.
Both Hlushchenko and Vynnychenko couldn’t really stand Picasso’s artwork. During the first Picasso’s exhibition in Paris they threw rotten apples and eggs at the artist and the visitors. That is quite interesting though that the first naturist beach in Paris was organized by Hlushchenko and Vynnychenko.
A report for Stalin
After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Hlushenko received a task form the Soviet authorities to focus on gathering information about the German defense industry. It was thanks to his connections that the Centre in Moscow was able to obtain secret technical plans of 205 types of military equipment including the engines of German fighter aircrafts.
The State archives of the Security Service of Ukraine still have a copy of a report of the agent “Yarema” where he stressed that despite an agreement between Germany and USSR, German government actively prepares for the war against the Soviet Union.
According to the information “Yarema” provided, under the conditions of overwhelming secrecy, German-Ukrainian pocket dictionaries have been issued in Germany for the infantry and pilots, as well as detailed topographic maps of the entire territory of Ukraine and military and topographic, economic and political reviews of all its regions.
It is interesting that this report was seen by Stalin on 10 June 1940, five months earlier than the radio-telegram sent by Richard Sorge on 18 November from Japan.
A Hitler’s gift
At the beginning of 1940 the Soviet authorities charged Hlushchenko with organizing of the Soviet visual arts exhibition in Berlin. On its last day, the Third Reich top officials attended the event, where the landscapes of the agent “Yarema” have been also exhibited.
German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop told Hlushchenko that Hitler highly appreciated his talent and presented him with a memorable gift of an album containing the lithographs of his best water colour drawings.
Later Hlushchenko gave this album to Stalin who wished to make himself familiar with the Fuehrer’s artwork.
“The manuscripts don’t burn”
When the war started Hlushchenko moved to Moscow where he lived in a tiny room of nine square meters in a communal flat.
He left his intelligence service and decided to devote himself completely to the main purpose of his life – visual arts. In this period of time Hlushchenko created his paintings following the socialist realism style: “Lenin near the wall of the Communists”, “Defense of Moscow” etc.
In artistic circles he is famous first of all as a landscape painter. Until now his impressionist works created both in early and in mature periods of his life remain extremely popular.
Shortly before his death the artist has chosen 250 paintings created in 50s that, according to him, didn’t represent an artist Hlushchenko at all, and asked his wife to burn them. She didn’t comply with his request and promised him that these paintings will be never exhibited.
One can see the paintings of Mykola Hlushchenko in the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv.
Copyright © 2018 ВВС.
Translated by © Julia Lugovska
Mykola Petrovych Hlushchenko
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Hlushchenko
Mykola Petrovych Hlushchenko est un artiste peintre ukrainien. Durant la Révolution russe, il fut mobilisé dans l'armée des volontaires de Dénikine, avant d'être fait prisonnier et déporté en Pologne. Il parvint à s'évader du camp de prisonniers, et rejoint finalement l'Allemagne à pied, où il intégra l'Académie des Arts de Berlin. Il en sortit diplômé en 1924, et dès l'année suivante, il commença à travailler à Paris, où ses œuvres attirèrent immédiatement l'attention des critiques. Au début des années 1930, en tant que membre de l'Association des Artistes Ukrainiens Indépendants, il participe à des grande expositions de peintures ukrainiennes au Musée national de Lviv.
En 1936, il déménagea en Union soviétique où il devint un collaborateur des services secrets soviétiques ; il est ainsi par exemple l'un des premiers à les prévenir du projet d'attaque de l'URSS par les Allemands au début de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En 1944, il partit vivre à Kiev où il composa une série de peintures sur la Kiev d'après-guerre, ainsi que de nombreux paysages issus de ses voyages en France, Belgique, Suisse et Italie notamment.
Dans les années 1960, s'étant rapproché des nouveaux courants artistiques grâce à ses voyages à l'étranger, il enrichit ses œuvres avec des couleurs vives.
Parmi ses œuvres, on compte de nombreux paysages (France, Italie, Pays-Bas Ukraine), des natures mortes, des nus et des portraits. Il réalisa également de nombreuses commandes pour le gouvernement soviétique, et des portraits des écrivains français Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, Victor Margueritte et de même qu'un portrait du peintre Paul Signac.
Les oeuvres de Hlushchenko ont été exposées de son vivant, à Berlin (1924), Paris (à cinq reprises de 1925 а 1934), Milan (1927), Budapest (1930 et 1932), Stockholm (1931), Rome (1933), Lviv (1934 et 1935), Moscou (1943 et 1959), Belgrade (1966 et 1968), Londres (1966), Toronto (1967 à 1969) et plus de dix fois à Kiev.
DSC_1822
Mykola Hlushchenko "Still life with a Glass Jar and a Bottle"
Paris 1920/30
Fauvism | Oil and Gouache on Paper | 11.69 x 16.53 inch
The Front View of the Painting
Ukrainian James Bond: a dandy, an artist and a spy
www.bbc.com/ukrainian/society/2015/11/151105_hlushchenko_...
Natalka Matyikhina
BBC Monitoring
13 November 2015
If someone decided to do a movie about his life, this film would be definitely as impressive and spectacular as the legendary 007 movies.
“A wonderful stature, he’s like made from muscles. He is a track and field champion. As a swimmer, he impresses even the people from Balearic Islands, who actually grew up by the sea. In the evening, when he wears his tuxedo though, he magically turns into a real dandy mingling with the international community in his hotel,” that was what the Parisian newspaper “Les Nouvelles litteráires” wrote about him in 1936.
“He treated women as a real Parisian. He knew how to speak to a woman and looked at her the way that she felt she was the most beautiful woman on Earth,” Tamara Boyko, the Executive General Manager of the “Culture” TV Channel, reminisced in her interview for the “Day” newspaper.
Meet Hlushchenko, Mykola Hlushchenko, a prominent Ukrainian artist, a people’s artist of USSR, a winner of the Shevchenko National Prize, pride and glory of Ukrainian visual arts, a “Ukrainian Monet”, and, in addition to that, an illegal Soviet spy operating under the code name “Yarema”.
Ukrainian immigrant
Native of current Dnipropetrovsk region, young Hlushchenko immigrated to Germany in 1919. He graduated from the private arts school and academy there.
In Berlin Hlushchenko met the future writer and filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who worked as a Soviet diplomat at that time. He was the one who recruited the beginner artists as a Soviet spy.
In 1924 Hlushchenko moved to Paris. There, on 23 Rue de Volontairs, with support of the Hetman of Ukrainian People’s Republic Pavlo Skoropadsky he opened an art studio. This art studio was frequently visited by the leaders of different Ukrainian immigrant groups, among them one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Dmytro Andrievsky and a Colonel of Ukrainian Galician Army Vasyl Vyshyvany.
Active social life and lots of connections helped Hlushchenko gather information about the activities of various “hostile anti-Soviet and nationalist organizations”.
Throwing eggs at Picasso
That was when Hlushchenko became friends with the Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vynnychenko. There is a theory that keeping him under surveillance was one of the tasks of the agent “Yarema”. Once Vynnychenko asked Hlushchenko to paint his summer house, and Hlushchenko painted it… drawing the portraits of Ukrainian hetmans.
Both Hlushchenko and Vynnychenko couldn’t really stand Picasso’s artwork. During the first Picasso’s exhibition in Paris they threw rotten apples and eggs at the artist and the visitors. That is quite interesting though that the first naturist beach in Paris was organized by Hlushchenko and Vynnychenko.
A report for Stalin
After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Hlushenko received a task form the Soviet authorities to focus on gathering information about the German defense industry. It was thanks to his connections that the Centre in Moscow was able to obtain secret technical plans of 205 types of military equipment including the engines of German fighter aircrafts.
The State archives of the Security Service of Ukraine still have a copy of a report of the agent “Yarema” where he stressed that despite an agreement between Germany and USSR, German government actively prepares for the war against the Soviet Union.
According to the information “Yarema” provided, under the conditions of overwhelming secrecy, German-Ukrainian pocket dictionaries have been issued in Germany for the infantry and pilots, as well as detailed topographic maps of the entire territory of Ukraine and military and topographic, economic and political reviews of all its regions.
It is interesting that this report was seen by Stalin on 10 June 1940, five months earlier than the radio-telegram sent by Richard Sorge on 18 November from Japan.
A Hitler’s gift
At the beginning of 1940 the Soviet authorities charged Hlushchenko with organizing of the Soviet visual arts exhibition in Berlin. On its last day, the Third Reich top officials attended the event, where the landscapes of the agent “Yarema” have been also exhibited.
German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop told Hlushchenko that Hitler highly appreciated his talent and presented him with a memorable gift of an album containing the lithographs of his best water colour drawings.
Later Hlushchenko gave this album to Stalin who wished to make himself familiar with the Fuehrer’s artwork.
“The manuscripts don’t burn”
When the war started Hlushchenko moved to Moscow where he lived in a tiny room of nine square meters in a communal flat.
He left his intelligence service and decided to devote himself completely to the main purpose of his life – visual arts. In this period of time Hlushchenko created his paintings following the socialist realism style: “Lenin near the wall of the Communists”, “Defense of Moscow” etc.
In artistic circles he is famous first of all as a landscape painter. Until now his impressionist works created both in early and in mature periods of his life remain extremely popular.
Shortly before his death the artist has chosen 250 paintings created in 50s that, according to him, didn’t represent an artist Hlushchenko at all, and asked his wife to burn them. She didn’t comply with his request and promised him that these paintings will be never exhibited.
One can see the paintings of Mykola Hlushchenko in the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv.
Copyright © 2018 ВВС.
Translated by © Julia Lugovska
Mykola Petrovych Hlushchenko
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Hlushchenko
Mykola Petrovych Hlushchenko est un artiste peintre ukrainien. Durant la Révolution russe, il fut mobilisé dans l'armée des volontaires de Dénikine, avant d'être fait prisonnier et déporté en Pologne. Il parvint à s'évader du camp de prisonniers, et rejoint finalement l'Allemagne à pied, où il intégra l'Académie des Arts de Berlin. Il en sortit diplômé en 1924, et dès l'année suivante, il commença à travailler à Paris, où ses œuvres attirèrent immédiatement l'attention des critiques. Au début des années 1930, en tant que membre de l'Association des Artistes Ukrainiens Indépendants, il participe à des grande expositions de peintures ukrainiennes au Musée national de Lviv.
En 1936, il déménagea en Union soviétique où il devint un collaborateur des services secrets soviétiques ; il est ainsi par exemple l'un des premiers à les prévenir du projet d'attaque de l'URSS par les Allemands au début de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En 1944, il partit vivre à Kiev où il composa une série de peintures sur la Kiev d'après-guerre, ainsi que de nombreux paysages issus de ses voyages en France, Belgique, Suisse et Italie notamment.
Dans les années 1960, s'étant rapproché des nouveaux courants artistiques grâce à ses voyages à l'étranger, il enrichit ses œuvres avec des couleurs vives.
Parmi ses œuvres, on compte de nombreux paysages (France, Italie, Pays-Bas Ukraine), des natures mortes, des nus et des portraits. Il réalisa également de nombreuses commandes pour le gouvernement soviétique, et des portraits des écrivains français Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, Victor Margueritte et de même qu'un portrait du peintre Paul Signac.
Les oeuvres de Hlushchenko ont été exposées de son vivant, à Berlin (1924), Paris (à cinq reprises de 1925 а 1934), Milan (1927), Budapest (1930 et 1932), Stockholm (1931), Rome (1933), Lviv (1934 et 1935), Moscou (1943 et 1959), Belgrade (1966 et 1968), Londres (1966), Toronto (1967 à 1969) et plus de dix fois à Kiev.