Bulgakov Grigoriy

Biography

Bulgakov Grigory Alexandrovich (January 23, 1916, the village of Golyazhye, Bryansk region - April 12, 2011, Krasnodar) - Russian artist, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, (1947), Honored Artist of the RSFSR, (1968).
Born on January 23, 1916, in the village of Golyazhye, Bryansk Region, in the family of a priest. In 1924 he moved with his family to the city of Rylsk, Kursk region. In 1933 he left home, worked as a laborer at a bakery in Stavropol, at a construction site in Pyatigorsk, then in 1934 he moved to Leningrad. There, as part of the restoration team, he is engaged in the restoration of murals in the premises of the State Hermitage. In 1935 he began to visit the art studio at the House of Culture near the Narva Gate. In 1937, Bulgakov entered the Leningrad Art and Pedagogical School, which he failed to finish due to being drafted into the Soviet army in 1940. During the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1945 he served as part of the 1st Ukrainian, then the 4th Ukrainian Front of the 60th Army. He was a calculator of the 574th Infantry Regiment. From March to August 1943 he served in intelligence. In the same year he was appointed as an artist for the military newspaper "Army Truth". Grigory Bulgakov met the victory near Prague. He was awarded the Orders of the "Patriotic War" II degree "and" Red Star ", medals. After the end of the war in 1945, Bulgakov came to Krasnodar as part of the editorial office of the newspaper Armyskaya Pravda under the political department of the 60th Army. Since 1946, Grigory Alexandrovich began to work at the Krasnodar Artistic Creative and Production Combine. In the same year, he participated in the exhibition for the first time. Since 1947 - a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1957 he was awarded the Diploma of the II degree of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR for the painting "Russian Columbus". G. Shelikhov in the Far East. 1956-1957. 1968 Grigory Alexandrovich Bulgakov was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. The artist traveled a lot around the country and was actively engaged in creative work, created a series of paintings and graphic works, and regularly participated in exhibitions. He died on April 12, 2011 in Krasnodar.
The creative path of the artist has more than sixty years. The works of Grigory Bulgakov unite various stylistic trends, starting with the realism of the Wanderers, Russian impressionism, and the laconicism of the severe style, and the inner freedom of abstractionism are close to him. The range of his work is wide and varied - painting, graphics, book and interior design, collages, rare experiments in sculpture. In 1950-1980, the artist made numerous creative trips around the country, painted thematic canvases. He created pictorial and graphic cycles: “Memories or Native Land” (in graphics - “Native Lands”), “Northern Cycle”, a series of works dedicated to “Sheskharis”, “Azovstal”, the Caucasus, Crimea, Transcaucasia, the Baltic states, the North of Russia. The works of Grigory Bulgakov are kept in the collections of the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F. A. Kovalenko, the Krasnodar Regional Exhibition Hall of Fine Arts, the Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E. D. Felitsin, the Kostroma State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, in private collections in Russia and abroad.

From 1946 to 2011, the artist participated in 62 exhibitions of regional, republican, all-Union, international significance. In 1966, 1968, 1994, 1996, 2006, 2011 - personal exhibitions, the 2014 exhibition was held in memory of the artist.