Ismailova Gulfairus Mansurovna. Kazakhstani theatre artist, painter, film actress. Member of the Artists Union of Kazakhstan (1957), National Artist of Kazakhstan (1987), Honoured Art Worker of Kazakhstan (1965). She was born in 1929 in Almaty. Her real name - Konarbayeva Kulpash Tansykbayevna. She decided to make the surname of her repressed native father public only in the nineties. Gulfairus was adopted in early childhood by Mansur Ismailov, she became the eldest of his five children. She graduated from the Almaty Art College, studied in the workshop of A. Cherkassky (1944).... далее

Ismailova Gulfairus Mansurovna. Kazakhstani theatre artist, painter, film actress. Member of the Artists Union of Kazakhstan (1957), National Artist of Kazakhstan (1987), Honoured Art Worker of Kazakhstan (1965). She was born in 1929 in Almaty. Her real name - Konarbayeva Kulpash Tansykbayevna. She decided to make the surname of her repressed native father public only in the nineties. Gulfairus was adopted in early childhood by Mansur Ismailov, she became the eldest of his five children. She graduated from the Almaty Art College, studied in the workshop of A. Cherkassky (1944). She graduated from the I. Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (modern St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Arts), studied at the theatre and decoration department of the painting faculty with M. Bobyshov (1950 - 1956). Gulfairuz Ismailova's husband was Yevgeny Matveyevich Sidorkin, a Soviet graphic artist, Honoured Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR (1965), National Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1981). Their common son - Vadim Evgenyevich Sidorkin, followed in the footsteps of his famous parents and was educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin. Ismailova Gulfairus lived and worked in Almaty. She taught at the art school (1956 - 1957). Worked in the field of theatre art, easel painting, cinema. Acted in 7 full-length feature films. Art director of Sultan Hodzhikov's film ‘Kyz-Zhibek’, which won the prize for the best art design at the V All-Union Film Festival. She wrote her first painting ‘Kazakh Waltz’ of the famous portrait triptych at the age of 29. She is the author of sketches of scenery and costumes: for the operas ‘Yer-Targyn’ by E. Brusilovsky, ‘Zhumbak-kyz’ by S. Mukhamedjanov, ‘Cio-Cio-San’ by Puccini, ‘Alpamys’ by E. Rakhmadiev, ‘The Barber of Seville’ by Rossini, ‘The Tsar's Bride’ by Rimsky-Korsakov, ‘Iolanthe’ by P. Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky's ‘Iolanta’, Verdi's ‘Rigoletto’; to the film ‘Kyz-Zhibek’; to the drama of G. Musrepov ‘Goat-Korpesh and Bayan-Slu’; to the ballets of B. Astafiev ‘Bakhchisarai Fountain’, P. Tchaikovsky ‘Swan Lake’, I. Strauss ‘Farewell to St. Petersburg’. Author of about 100 portraits and paintings. A characteristic feature of many of her works - decorativeness, so consonant with the traditions of Kazakh artistic culture. Participant of exhibitions in Kazakhstan, Russia, GDR, England, Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, Japan, France. Ismailova's creativity is one of the brightest pages in the development of fine arts of Kazakhstan. Her works adorn the collections of leading Kazakh and Russian museums, including the Kasteev State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan. скрыть