Biography A Lottfullin

Akhmat Lutfullin today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of one of the largest artists of Russia and Bashkortostan Akhmat Lutfullin. The years of his youth were connected with the neighboring villages of Askarovo and Abzakovo. Akhmat's father, Fatkulla, was a competent man, even before the revolution he graduated from the madrasah, sang long Bashkir songs well.

Mother led the farm, was an excellent storyteller, knew many fairy tales and legends. The family had seven children, Akhmat was the eldest son. He began to draw from the fifth grade when he was instructed to draw up a wall newspaper, and since then he has not parted with art. He had a good natural voice, musicality, played on Mandolin. Before the war, Akhmat was even admitted to the orchestra of folk instruments of the Bashkir Philharmonic, spoke on the radio, was preparing to participate in the decade of Bashkir art in Moscow, but the war prevented.

In the year, in difficult wartime, he goes to Magnitogorsk on foot and enters to study at a craft school on a turner, but the dream of becoming a real artist does not leave him. At the same time, he attends the istudio at the Palace of Culture of Metallurgists. Akhmat Lutfullin learns a lot. In years, he graduates from the Leningrad Architectural and Art School, the Bashkir theater and art school and the State Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR.

In those years, there were practically no deep traditions of the Bashkir art school, since it was forbidden to portray people and animals in the drawing of people. The artist had to go a difficult path of creative searches in order to understand and express in his works the spirit, atmosphere of life, images of the Bashkir people. He needed years to carefully study the experience of old masters.

With special persistence, Akhmat studied the portrait painting of Hans Memling - the Netherlands artist of the XIV century and the work of the Armenian artist Minas Avetisyan. Deep interest aroused the art of ancient Russian icon painting in him. It was necessary to melt all this and connect with their own creative ideas and intentions. After completing his studies in Lithuania, the artist returned to his native village and began to work hard.

He creates portrait and landscape sketches “Portrait of Mother”, “still life with a picture”, “Bashkir-peasant” and others. In the year, in Ufa, his first songwriter was held, where Akhmat Lutfullin declared himself as a serious master working on a national theme. Already in the first works, the artist’s desire to convey on canvas the best features of the Bashkir people and the wealth of the inner world of contemporaries are pronounced.

Gradually, the portrait topic becomes leading in the work of the master. The artist is actively involved in numerous exhibitions of international, all -Russian and republican significance. In the X years, Akhmat Lutfullin creates the canvases “Three Women”, “A holiday in the village. Behind his specific characters is the fate of the whole people, the deep foundations of his being.

The greatness of Akhmat Lutfullin as an artist consists in the fact that he was capacious on his canvases, and at the same time extremely simply, was able to express the generalized image of representatives of his people. The bright, sincere, truthful art of Lutfullin conquers primarily by national identity. Lutfullin is a truly Bashkir artist, not only by birth and nationality, but also in deep attachment to his native land and his people, by rare ability to see and feel the originality and beauty of his life, character and traditions.

In the year, Akhmat Lutfullin’s creative trip took place to France. In the same year, a personal exhibition of his works in Moscow was held. Later, the artist makes a creative trip to Vietnam. Akhmat Lutfullin is elected as a full member of the Academy of Arts of Russia and an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Bashkortostan. His personal exhibitions are held with great success in Ufa, Kazan, Magnitogorsk and Moscow.

He is a participant in many international, all -Union, all -Russian and zonal exhibitions. In the year, the artist became the laureate of the Republican State Prize named after S. Yulaev, in the year - the laureate of the Kim Akhmedyanov Prize. In general, the development of Bashkir painting throughout the second half of the twentieth century is firmly connected with the name of Akhmat Lutfullin.

Possessing self -criticism and exactingness, relying on the best traditions of world art, the artist was able to create his own manner of painting, embodying the origins of his philosophical and poetic searches. The popularity of Akhmat Lutfullin is obvious: many works of the artist are stored in the reserves of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, in the Russian Museum of St.

Petersburg, the Bashkir Art Museum named after M. Nesterov, other museums of the country and in private collections. Once, at the end of the 10ths of the last century, a meeting and conversation between Akhmat Lutfullin with the president of the USSR Academy of Arts Nikolai Tomsk, who determined the creative talent of a Bashkir artist as a noticeable phenomenon in Russian art.

To his question: “What does art mean to you? Akhmat Lutfullin was friends and talked with many famous contemporaries. The poet Mustai Karim wrote: “... Akhmat painting is dear to me.Speaking in the language of the peasants, by his origins he is "a guy from my aul." I like the hard work of Lutfullin, his lifestyle, the ability to communicate with people. He is not afraid to be deceived, to get into trouble.

And the artist in the broadest sense should live without looking back. I am especially attracted to me by his boundless trusting, trusting - a manifestation of courage. From personal qualities, creativity also consists of. Art has an amazing property. Sometimes you look at the picture and you see - a person runs, but there is no movement, he stands - there is a movement.

And I see that in the works of Akhmat Lutfullin, life is depicted without embellishment and inventions, such as the real artist is obliged to show it. And in every work - the outline of his heart. " In life, Akhmat Fatkullovich was a very modest person, preferred to listen more than to speak, had deep knowledge in many areas, subtle wit. The circle of his interests was wide and diverse.

As an artist, of course, he was very observant. His attentive gaze seemed to penetrate the interlocutor through and through. He did not live a little to his fly. Akhmat Fatkullovich Lutfullin left this world on July 10 and was buried in his native village. Since the year, the secondary school in the village of Abzakovo, Beloretsky district has been named after an outstanding fellow countryman.

In August, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building. One of the streets in the village of Nagaevo of the Oktyabrsky District of Ufa has recently been named Akhmat Lutfullin. Author: Vladimir Romanov.