– Maybe, someone’s soul will respond and someone also wants to make his landscape, turned to the painters master. A man can not sit idle.
Remember how we went to the open air. The bus was Packed to the eyeballs, stops at the top of the slope. First came Herman A., followed by the rest.
‘ That’s where we’ll start. Choose a motive, – has told herbalists.
And began. Used scattered along the slope. Near the umbrella, under which the herbalists, is always crowded.
the Landscape is the image of the space, he says, not taking his eyes off the sketch. – Artist – magician. Something closer – moved, and then added, say, sorrel. He behind us, and we will draw it to the left, next to the pink Daisy.
And quoting someone else’s lines: “Flowers fall mile, the luxurious fields of the firstborn…”.
Stopping, Herman A. bypasses artists, everyone something advises, encourages.
Before leaving, the young people gathered around Travnikova. One girl he gave an autograph, drawing a symbol – dandelion losing seed.
Is a balding dandelion – smiles.
And wrote: “Irina! Don’t lose height!”
– There is a battle, there is a seascape. I neasist, – raises his hand up Herman.
herbalists was born in Mehoke, in the hospital, built by prisoners of war by the Austrians. His father Alexey Antonovich has also come from there. Recently it became known that the ancestor Travnikova guarded in 1695 gate in Mekhonskoe jail from raids of nomads. Here it is – the link between generations. Mother of Herman Evdokia Ivanovna – a native of Vyatka province from Urzhum. He graduated from high school. She was sent to teach. The civil war changed the fate. During the NEP Evdokia Ivanovna even sang in the Opera theater of Sverdlovsk. Her first husband was persecuted. Father Herman she met when he studied radio telegraphist. After sending Alexis in the timber industry, he chose the cordon. It was here, in the forest wilderness, took the first steps Gera herbalists. Then moved to Borovlyanka, where did the exiles, the people of “a forest with pine…”.
during the school years of this quenching for Herman to become weekly transitions for 50 kilometers back and forth from the house in the village of Oktyabrsky to the regional center, to sledding to bring for a week food (mostly frozen milk). In the village of Pihtovka Novosibirsk region the student met the first teachers of the exiled artists from Ukraine: they copied the paintings of the Wanderers for clubs, canteens, offices. Seeing the pictures of Herman, said, “Draw more from life”.
my eyes put – says herbalists.
his First exhibition was in 1954: 20 pencil drawings and watercolors pinned buttons to the Board.
herbalists always in motion, going in search of a new life: Russian North, the Baltic States, Kamchatka, Caucasus, Bashkiria, Middle ��Zia… a Special attitude from German to Russian North. In the Arctic circle a few times. On the Kola Peninsula, three times, beginning with the development of routes for Union group of watercolors.
In 2006, Herman first came on the Yamal Peninsula with geologists, where he made a series of portraits: geophysicist, driller, driver of the Rover, research assistant gruntled… In recent years, visited Austria, Italy. Visited Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, Jordan, Israel, Morocco… And twice the air with dust boots on the Crimea. Not for vacation, but to show the unique and changing beauty of the world, and in her man. Brush to capture fleeting time – the task of any artist. From these experiences was born the album “Breath of the East.”
Hermann could not stay away from the topic of the Decembrists who lived in the NINETEENTH century in the Mound. To soak up the spirit of those times, went to Leningrad. Received permission to visit the Commandant’s house at the Peter and Paul fortress, where he was interrogated prisoners.
And he visited the Pskov region at the station of Salesy, where in 1827 Pushkin met with Kuhelbeker, which under police escort transported in a convict company in Dinaburg fortress. Today the triptych “Pushkin and Kuchelbecker” is in the State Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Watercolour Herman compares with a violin (of which he in childhood dreamed to heartache), and oil – with a piano. In the 1980s herbalists headed by the regional Fund of culture. Met with Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov, who supported the idea of creating a “Museum of watercolors.” From the vaults of the Unions of artists of the USSR and the RSFSR, and the Soviet Ministry of culture was allocated about 1500 watercolours by artists from all the republics.
since 2002 in Kurgan, five all-Russian exhibitions of watercolors. The total number of submitted papers exceeded three thousand. German herbalists has been a permanent member of the jury. But his dream of creating the watercolour Museum is still not feasible.
on the Eve of the 2020 Kurgan regional art Museum was named Herman Travnikova. The artist has a long connection with the Museum’s staff. His appearance here is always noisy. Professional tips, comments wizard helps to sharpen the eyes of the critics. With humor Herman at short leg. Somehow holding a master class and to attract attention, asked a provocative question:
– Remember, as in “virgin soil upturned” Feeding asked grandfather Shchukar, “Tell me, what are these things – watercolor and curb? Schukar said, “of course: watercolour is a girl gentle, tender, and curb – slapper, rude girl.”
it is Clear that this conversation Herman came up with. But after this introduction it is easier to talk about “the Imperial society of watercolorists,” which led the artist Benois, about the features of this kind of painting. He has his own audience and price��tel. For example, Mstislav Rostropovich, as in the Mound, has purchased six works Travnikova.
