Artist Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov (1887-1958) (109 works)

Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov (March 1, 1870, Kochelaevo village, Penza province (now in the territory of Mordovia), Russian Empire - August 3, 1958, Saransk, Mordovian ASSR, USSR) - famous Russian (Soviet) artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR and Mordovian ASSR , People's Artist of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Fedot Sychkov was born into a poor peasant family in the village of Kochelaevo. Since childhood, Fedot Sychkov showed a talent for painting. He worked in an icon-painting workshop, painted frescoes in churches, and made portraits from photographs.

In 1892, he went to St. Petersburg, to the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts with the support of General I. A. Arapov (1844-1913), who drew attention to the talented young self-taught artist. In 1895, F. Sychkov graduated from the Drawing School and became a volunteer student at the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts. After graduation, the artist returned to his homeland.
The artist’s main theme is the life of peasants and rural holidays.
Since 1960, the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya has housed a permanent exhibition of his works (the funds of this museum contain the largest collection of paintings and graphic works by Sychkov - about 600 works, including etudes and sketches).

In 1970, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding painter, an order was issued by the Ministry of Culture of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to open a memorial museum in the artist’s homeland. The house-museum of F.V. Sychkov was opened on March 11, 1970 in the village. Kochelaev after some reconstruction of the premises.

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