Painting - Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow

Opzorro Art Collection & Gallery 
ALEXEJ IILITSCH BASCHLAKOW
painting


Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow, 1936-1980)
(Russian artist, painter, sculptor)

Painting no. 2 by the artist in the collection:

Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow), artist, painter, maler, künstler
Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow), (unknown title), 1975
acylic on poly (PMMA), 67 cm. x 51 cm. Part of the collection since 2023.
Villa Massimo Rome award recipient.

Painting no. 1 by the artist in the collection:

Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow),
Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow), "Hinter den Sperlingsbergen" (no. 47, from 6.9.1973), 
acylic on poly (PMMA), 25 cm. x 25 cm. (Intern no. 21). Part of the collection since 2001.
Villa Massimo Rome award recipient.
Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow),
 Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow), the back of "Hinter den Sperlingsbergen" painting 
(no. 47, from 6.9.1973), acylic on poly (PMMA), 25 cm. x 25 cm. (Intern no. 21). Part of the collection since 2001.

About the painting:

The painting was previously owned by the "Stadtsparkasse Hannover", which is the "City owned bank" of the city of Hannover where the artist lived.


See below the "Stadtsparkasse Hannover" stamp on the back of the painting which is the "best possible provenance this painting can have" due to it was sold by the Brusberg Gallery in Hannover 1973 to the Sparkasse Hannover.


The exhibition is documented in the book "Bilder aus einem Buch, Michail Bulgakow „Der Meister und Margarita“ (Brusberg-Berichte, Folge 15, 1973, Begleitschrift zur Ausstellung vom 1. Februar bis 9. März 1973 bei Brusberg 1, Hannover, Hannover: Brusberg 1, 1973, S. 27–48).


The book is a kind of catalog accompanying Baschlakow's exhibition in the gallery. The topic of the painting and the complete series of at least 47 paintings is the book "The Master and Margarita" by the russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.


Each painting of the series has similar writing on the back and is in the same or similar way framed.


Acrylic painting on poly appears to be a technique Baschlakow had developed and mastered better than any other artist.
One can say that this is his specialty and a unique identification mark.
 


Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow (Alexej-Jljitsch Baschlakow),

See also:

Otto Nielsen, was a Denish painter

Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow, (also Alexej Jljitsch Baschlakow, russian Алексей Ильич Башлаков), born 6th of august 1936 in Slaboda/Orjol (Sovjet Union, now Russia), died 27th of november 1980 in Hannover (Germany), was a russian artist, painter and sculptor. The multi-award-winning artist mainly painted oil paintings in harsh forms and colors, created artistically designed glass windows and, in the years before his untimely death, also sculptural works.


LIFE: 

Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow was born in 1936 in Strajizilskaya Slaboda, Russia. At the end of the war, when Baschlakow was still a child, he came to Völksen near Springe in Germany.


After graduating from secondary school in Springe, Alexej Ilyich Baschlakow completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Hanover from 1954, during which time he lived in Ahlem. With the help of a "Henry Ford scholarship" in 1958 and 1959 he was then able to study at the Hanover School of Art under the painter Gerhard Wendland. Baschlakow then took part in various art exhibitions, for the first time in 1960 in Munich.


In the meantime, Baschlakov had traveled to Paris in 1964, where he visited the artist Serge Poliakoff, among others. In the following year, 1965, Baschlakow's works were shown for the first time in a solo exhibition by the Brusberg Gallery in Hanover. In 1966 he received the "Förderpreis der Niedersächsisches Kunstpreis" and was able to stay in Rome for study purposes in 1967 and 1968 thanks to the Villa Massimo Scholarship (Award).


Alexej Ilyich Baschlakow became a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund; his name can be found in the DKB membership directory from 1970. In that year he took part in the DKB annual exhibition Prisma '70 in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn with two large-format oil paintings. In 1971 Baschlakow traveled to New York together with the gallery owner Dieter Brusberg.


Another study visit to Florence in 1974 was made possible for Alexej Ilyich Baschlakow by a Wormland scholarship. In the following year, 1975, the artist resumed his work as a teacher. He died at the age of only 44.


  • The Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen/Germany owns at least one work by Baschlakow.

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