The People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Igoshev was born in 1921 in Bashkiria. The future artist studied in Ufa at the Arts Faculty of the Ufa College of Arts.
In 1950 Vladimir Igoshev graduated from The Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, where he was a student of a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts Georgy Ryazhsky. In 1968 Igoshev moved to Moscow and soon became a professor at Moscow Architectural Institute and Moscow State Pedagogical University.
Vladimir Igoshev worked in different genres: he painted portraits and self-portraits, worked on landscapes and genre paintings. In 1982 the artist won the State Prize of Russia named after I. E. Repin. Paintings by Vladimir Igoshev are in the private collections in Austria, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, and other countries. The State Tretyakov Gallery has nine works by Igoshev in its collection, and The State Russian Museum has eleven of his paintings.
Vladimir Igoshev first visited the North in 1954. Later on he often went on expeditions with geologists to the far corners of the Northern Urals. In order to depict the beauty of the region in his paintings, the artist had to use helicopters, small planes and sleighs pulled by reindeer for transportation. The painter brought a lot of sketches from these expeditions, and some of the paintings were made en plein air. On the Sosva River is one of them. It was created in a sketch technique with quickly applied brushstrokes. The artist realistically captured the colour and harmony of northern autumn. The Sosva is a river in Khanty-Mansi Okrug. It flows from the confluence of two rivers, The Small Sosva and The Big Sosva. Being the mountain river, in its upstream flow the Northern Sosva flows between the spurs of the Northern Urals. In that area its river valley is narrow, the floodway is not developed, it’s weakly water-logged and covered with mixed forest.
In 1950 Vladimir Igoshev graduated from The Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, where he was a student of a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts Georgy Ryazhsky. In 1968 Igoshev moved to Moscow and soon became a professor at Moscow Architectural Institute and Moscow State Pedagogical University.
Vladimir Igoshev worked in different genres: he painted portraits and self-portraits, worked on landscapes and genre paintings. In 1982 the artist won the State Prize of Russia named after I. E. Repin. Paintings by Vladimir Igoshev are in the private collections in Austria, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, and other countries. The State Tretyakov Gallery has nine works by Igoshev in its collection, and The State Russian Museum has eleven of his paintings.
Vladimir Igoshev first visited the North in 1954. Later on he often went on expeditions with geologists to the far corners of the Northern Urals. In order to depict the beauty of the region in his paintings, the artist had to use helicopters, small planes and sleighs pulled by reindeer for transportation. The painter brought a lot of sketches from these expeditions, and some of the paintings were made en plein air. On the Sosva River is one of them. It was created in a sketch technique with quickly applied brushstrokes. The artist realistically captured the colour and harmony of northern autumn. The Sosva is a river in Khanty-Mansi Okrug. It flows from the confluence of two rivers, The Small Sosva and The Big Sosva. Being the mountain river, in its upstream flow the Northern Sosva flows between the spurs of the Northern Urals. In that area its river valley is narrow, the floodway is not developed, it’s weakly water-logged and covered with mixed forest.
