Sergei Aleksandrovich Zalshupin (Serge Zalchoupine, Russian: Сергей Александрович Залшупин, pseudonym Serge Chubine or Serge Choubine, born in 1898 (or 1900), Saint Petersburg - November 3, 1931, Paris) was a Russian and French portraitist, landscape painter, book illustrator and graphic artist.Северюхин (Severjuchin), Д.Я. (D.Ja); Лейкинд (Lejkind), О.Л. (O.L.), 1994.

Biography Zalshupin was born in Saint Petersburg as a son of Alexander Semenovich Zalshupin (born 1867- died 1929), publisher of the Энциклопедия банковского дела (Encyclopedia of Banking) and the periodicals Русский экономист (Russian Economist) Magazine. and Жизнь и суд (Life and Law Court). "Popular social-juridical illustrated magazine". From 1915 up to 1918 he studied art at the Новая художественная мастерская (New Art Studio) under the painters Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev (Василий Иванович Шухаев) and Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (Александр Евгеньевич Яковлев).

In 1921 Zalshupin emigrated to Berlin, where he worked for Russian émigré publications, providing portrait sketches and other illustrations especially to Спо́лох (Spolokh, Russian for Alarm bell). He took part in art exhibitions, such as the Exhibition of Original Drawings of Petrograd Bookplates (1923), and became a member of the board of the Berlin Haus der Kunst. In 1923, the Berlin publishing house Гамаюн (Gamayun)Гамаюн (Gamayun), name borrowed from the mythical bird of paradise in Russian culture, refer to Гамаюн on Russian wikipedia. released an album of the artist's etchings, Portraits of Modern Russian Writers, in an edition of 100 copies, which included portraits of Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Maxim Gorky, Boris Pilnyak, Ivan Shmelev, and others. That same year, he illustrated the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, translated by Vladimir Nabokov.

In 1924, Zalshupin emigrated again, now to France where he lived in Paris. At the art Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon) in Paris of 1924 and 1930 he presented his works under the pseudonym Serge Chubine.

He died in 1931 in Paris. Zalshupin's work can be found in Russia in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

Gallery

Work Drawings Many drawings by Zalshupin are presented online by Gallica, the digital national library of France BnF.

Paintings His paintings include:

Le joueur de violoncelle, 1923 Still life with pipe, 1923. Oil on canvas, 59 x 48,5 cm Mère et ses enfants, 1927 Portrait de jeune femme, 1928 Le port d'Alger, 1929 Le cabaret, 1929 Cabaret parisien, 1929 Place animée, 1930 Femme aux bras croisés, 1930 Portrait garçon, aquarelle and gouache, 36x26 cm, 1930 Femme à la couture, 1931 Portrait de la femme à la cigarette, 1931 Sur la terrasse d'un café des boulevards Les écuyers Les écoliers parisiens Portrait du père de l'artiste Paysage Urbaine Portrait de son père

Book illustrations

73 pages. 129 pages.

114 pages. V. Sirin is a pseudonym for V.V. Nabokov.

Literature Pages 204-205. 424 pages. 2003 edition: 387 pages.

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