Illustrator Rudolf Koivu (122 works)

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Koivu Rudolf Sephanias (Rudolf Koivu, 1890-1946), artist - painter, draftsman - illustrator. Born in St. Petersburg, into a simple Finnish working-class family of turner Heikki Koi-vunen. Died in Helsinki.

As a child, Rudolf Koivu attended the St. Petersburg parish church school, where he mastered Finnish and Russian literacy. Since childhood he loved to draw and attracted the attention of teachers in St. Petersburg. He was sent to study, but he had to earn his bread. And only in 1907 R. Koivu managed to continue his studies in painting at the drawing school of the Finnish society of art lovers.

There he was a student of Huto Simberg, author of the famous "Wounded Angel". H. Simberg inherited from his teacher Gallen-Kallela a belief in fantasy and the mystical power of nature. Rudolf Koivu then studied in Paris in 1914, and in Italy in 1924. Returning to Finland, he joined the “November Group” of the circle of artists, but remained faithful to the realistic style and painted his landscapes in a restrained, calm style of impressionism. Much more important than a painter, Koivu was a draftsman and illustrator. Showing an unusually lively and vivid imagination, he illustrated dozens of fairy-tale books, including Finnish Topelius’s “Reading to Children,” German “Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm,” Arabic tales “The Thousand and One Nights of Scheheraz,” etc. Koivu enjoyed illustrating Christmas newspapers, Finnish calendars and other publications, developing himself, clearly receiving influence primarily from Russian illustrators, a rare efficient, brightly decorated style. His sense of humor is manifested in addition to fairy-tale pictures and drawings, also in his caricatures, which were successful among his contemporaries. A collection (collection) of his paintings and drawings was published, unfortunately, after his death in 1947.