Biography of Pozdeev

Andrei Pozdeeva is a biographical essay Andrei Gennadievich Pozdeev was born on September 27 in the village of Nizhny Ingash of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the family of the postal employee Pozdeev Gennady Danilovich and his wife Evdokia Ivanovna, who already had two children: son Kolya and daughter Antonina. After Andrei, a year later, the younger sister, Zina, was born.

He was proud of his belonging to the original Siberian family, said: “I am an Yenisei tradesman. In the genus - blacksmiths, red -breeding carriers. " Mother was from the Angara River. The family constantly moved because of the work of my father. They lived mainly in the villages of the Yenisei. There, in one of the villages, Andrei began to study at school. From an early age, the main joy was drawing.

In the year, he took part in the regional competition of children's drawing dedicated to the centenary of Pushkin’s memory, and received a cash prize for the portrait of the poet - the first recognition and reward. When the war began, the father was immediately mobilized. The older sister was mobilized, the anti -aircraft gunner went through the whole war. Since Andrei, feeling like an adult, constantly ran away from the house, Evdokia Ivanovna advised him to go to Krasnoyarsk, where he began to work at a combine plant.

There, the young man remembered his experience in the fugitive: he got into the first commodity train and went to his mother and grandmother, who then lived in the village of Tyukhtet. For this I received 6 months of prison on the Stalin Decree. In the colony, he constantly painted, decorating wall newspapers and various “corners”. After the release, Andrei was sent to study at a craft school at the Yenisei station, where future railway workers were prepared.

Very soon, these crayfly barracks turned into branches of thieves' brothels. Andrei was also captured in one of the raids. Again, six months of imprisonment, which he did not fully leave this time, as he was sent to the club. Dzerzhinsky artist. Again slogans, wall newspapers, portraits and art panels. He worked with great pleasure, but refused a permanent job to stay a permanent job.

I decided to go to the army. In the year he went to the front as a volunteer. Sent to the Far East. The signalman in artillery participated in hostilities. Years later, with relief, he said that he did not personally kill a single person, but constantly saw in the terrible dreams, from which he woke up with a cry, those mountains of corpses that remained after the “work” of their long -range artillery.

Dreams stopped only when he painted the picture "War". The theme of the war was also reflected in the cycle of the works of “bride and grooms”. After the end of hostilities, he served in the Kuril Islands. He talked with bitterness about how the war reveals in people the smallest qualities when they do not spare either themselves or others. In the army, his desire for drawing and command, and marine officers to whom he was directed to work was also encouraged in every possible way.

There, on the island of Kunaki, Andrei fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis. In the year he was sent to the hospital, and then was written off from the army due to illness. He was awarded the medal "For the victory over Japan." In the same year, he came to his parents, who then lived in the village of Tour in Evenkia. He came to die the lungs in a state of decay, but survived thanks to a dry climate and folk remedies prepared on the basis of dog and bear fat, recalling this, jokingly called himself a "flayer." In the year, the father again changed the place of work.

The family moved to the south of the region, in Minusinsk. This was very favorable to the health of Andrei. Stay in Minusinsk and Abakan - the beginning of his creative life. He writes sketches, portraits, begins work on a genre picture. He works at a craft school for a year, in the local history museum named after Martyanova, leads a drawing circle in the house of pioneers. The first catalog.

Together with the first successes, the desire to learn. He was accepted, but each time returned due to exacerbation of tuberculosis. The move to Krasnoyarsk in the year expanded the circle of communication with artists. In October of the same year, Andrei was admitted to the “Artist” partnership and entered the children's drawing school, which he graduated in two years. His teacher, Andrei Prokofievich Lekarenko, and after graduation allowed him to study in any class.

Andrei always considered this strict artist as his teacher and mentor, his word for Andrei was indisputable. In this school, Andrei received secondary education. There he met with his future wife Valentina Mikhailovna Kryuchkova, who led their lessons of literature. After graduation in the year, Andrei began to live in the Kryuchkov house. At this time, he worked at the artistic foundation artist.

The last copy for earnings was the picture of Yu. Nestingov “Rest after the battle”. Mikhail Kuzmich Kryuchkov, a journalist by profession and a creative person, urgently recommended son -in -law to refuse orders and engage in exclusively creative work, and he took on the main part of material liability for the family. In the fall of the same year, Andrei had already participated in the exhibition of works of Siberian artists, which was held in Irkutsk, and was accepted by a candidate for members of the Krasnoyarsk Organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.The Union of Artists treated him kindly, or perhaps condescendingly, called Andryusha and at the same time strictly pulled, condemned "for the departure from realism." The candidate dragged on to a year.

Andrei himself was sure that, if not for his illness, he would not see the membership ticket of the Union of Artists. In the year of the artist, the next ailment of arachno-encephalitis is striking. For ten years, the state of health was very difficult. The diseases either advancing, then gave a break, but the artist continued to work intensively. At this time, Andrei was constantly surrounded by friends.

There was a close relationship with actors, young directors and director of the Krasnoyarsk Youth Theater, and other city theaters. Plays were read in his house, future performances were discussed, he even participated in one of the productions of the then young Kama Ginkas as a theater artist. The theater atmosphere was reflected in his studies, portraits, and staged paintings. Working with models, developing the field framework, also received a somewhat theatrical direction “Fateev with the family”, “Lucy”, “Portrait of Vera Stepanovna Sitnikova”, “Head” and others.

Almost all the model entered the circle of closest friends of the Pozdeyevs, often lived in the family for a long time and still do not interrupt ties with it. In the same period, Andrei is closely communicating with young artists: V. Kapolko, G. Gorensky, S. Shavlovsky, E. Byakov, V. Vaganov and others. Volodya Vaganov, in love with his art, became a faithful friend of the family for many years.

In years, Andrei writes a lot from nature, but Kuzmicheva Polyana became a real workshop for him. There is a guard post of the “Pillars” reserve “Drying Bay”, who previously belonged to his first director Alexander Leopoldovich Yavorsky, and then the spouses of Vasilovsky. The best works of that period were written there: “You live here”, “Flowers of the same summer”, “Runned the humpbacked horse” and many others from the “Caltat series”.

Here, around the Vasilovsky couple, a group of Krasnoyarsk residents, people of extraordinary, deeply loving and knowing these places rallied. The closest were V. Serebrennikov, V. Kravchenko, V. Krandel, S. Panko, G. Andrei felt comfortable with them, they loved him and were constant spectators at his exhibitions, speaking at discussions of work. It is no coincidence that one of them, Vadim Serebrennikov, wrote a preface to the catalog of the 2nd personal exhibition of Pozdeev’s work for the year.

This exposition was accompanied by a stormy verbal battles between members of the Krasnoyarsk Organization of the Union of Artists, who decided to teach the “naughty” Andrei, and its fans. Pozdeev was a life -loving man, ardently interested in different people, “curious to the world”, as one of his friends called him. He never resigned to either diseases or the circumstances of life.

The financial situation has always been difficult, since the main part of the family budget went to artistic materials Andrei was distinguished by incredible performance and exactingness to himself, destroying his works that did not suit him. For the first time it improved after a personal exhibition in Norilsk in the year. The city bought several works for the Norilsk art gallery, paying at that time a very worthy price for them.

In gratitude, the artist gave the museum a large collection of his works. Relations with the creative organization to which he belonged was not simple. Some of the artists unconditionally recognized him the right to creative search, but there were those, especially this concerned the leadership, who persistently tried to return him to the true path, that is, to the framework of the officially recognized art.