Karameros, Lyudmila

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Lyudmila Konstantinovna Karameros, nee Lysenko, was born on September 11, 1946 in Munich ...

How did it happen that a girl with such a Russian name was born in Germany?

We all know that the twentieth century was very tragic for humanity and broke the fate of millions of ordinary people. The First World or Imperialist War in Russia, the October Revolution, the Civil War led to the fact that Lyudmila's father, Konstantin Ivanovich Lysenko, the son of the hereditary Kuban Cossack from the personal guard of Emperor Alexander III, a participant in the First World War, was mobilized to fight on the side of the White Army . After White’s defeat from the Reds, he, along with the remnants of General Denikin’s troops, was evacuated from Novorossiysk to Turkey. Then he arrived in Serbia as part of the preserved Russian White Guard military units at the invitation of the Serbian King Alexander I Karageorgievich, who patronized the white emigration. There, Konstantin Lysenko managed to avoid a new mobilization and did not participate in the Second World War. In 1945 he ended up in Germany. In a camp for displaced people near Munich, he met his future wife, an Estonian girl, Hildegard was sent to Germany by the Nazi’s as slave labor. The future artist was born from this union.

From her childhood impressions, Lyudochka remained, then still unconscious, hard living in military barracks, a wood-burning iron stove in it for cooking hot food and heating in winter. As a little girl she remembered chickens her father had managed to get so that sometimes they had eggs or chicken soup for food as supplements to the meager rations of bread, pasta and cereals brought to the camp by international charity organizations like UNRA. At that time, little Lyuda was already drawing on the walls of their room when she was 3-5 years old with crayons Santa Claus gave her for Christmas accidentally falling into her pens with pencils or paints on scraps of paper, cardboard, or whatever. The plot was the same with chickens, grass with dandelions, a dull environment, as well as fantastic characters from Estonian mythology and Russian fairy tales in the interpretation of their parents. There were no children's books, so everything looked as it seemed in the little head.

Father and mother, it would seem, did not pay attention to the daughter’s art, however, when the family was able to leave for New York Lyudmila was accepted into the high school of music and art in NYC, and graduated at the age of 17 and then entered the Hunter College in New York to continue her education in artistic skill. School friends simplified her name and called her Lu. Unfortunately, Lu was unable to graduate from college. She had to work. Ludmila worked in a restaurant/night club in the Empire State Building as a Hostess, the girl at the entrance who receives guests. There she met her future husband John Karameros, married him at 22 and gave birth to two sons and one daughter in marriage with him. In the restaurant, Lyudmila worked for three years, then Lyudmila later worked as a secretary at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), City College and Columbia University.

To enhance her artistic skills, Lyudmila studied art with several well know artists over the years and continues to learn techniques to this day. At Columbia University, to which she devoted most of her working life, there was an annual art exhibition. Lyudmila always exhibited her works and won prizes. The paintings were distinguished by the brightness of the artistic embodiment of the plan, the masterly correlation of light and shadow, and the harmonious distribution of colors. There were always spectators who left rave reviews and acquired her works. Creating paintings, Lyudmila put her whole soul and talent into what she does. He says that at the time of creativity she is completely disconnected from the outside world and is there, in her imagination, which she embodies on a canvas with a brush and paint and God God leads her hand.

The site administration has long been familiar with the work of Lyudmila Karameros, understands it, appreciates and gladly places the proposed photocopies of paintings in a virtual gallery on the site:

Brooklyn Bridge.
27x35 cm. Cardboard/Oil. August 2010.
Private collection

6384 Hudson River in Piermont.
Canvas/Oil. October 2009.
Collection of the artist.

6385 Autumn Harvest.
Canvas/Oil. June 2008.
Collection of the artist.

6386 Fall Scene from Skyline Drive.
Canvas/Oil. August 2008.
Collection of the artist.

6387 Snowed in at the cabin.
Canvas/Oil. February 2011.
Collection of the artist.

6392 Path through the Hills.
Canvas/Oil. August 2005.
Collection of the artist.

6394 Calm Water.
Canvas/Oil. July 2007.
Private collection.

6395 A break in the Clouds over the George Washington Bridge.
Canvas/Oil. September 2007.
Collection of the artist.

6397 Skillet with Bacon.
Canvas/Oil. April 2009.
Private collection.

6403 Cabin in the Country.
Canvas/Oil. August 2010.
Private collection.

6404 Abandoned pond.
Canvas/Oil. July 2016.
Collection of the artist.

6410 Chelsea view of the Hudson .
Canvas/Oil. July 2015.
Collection of the artist.

7453 Portrait of Skillet .
Canvas/Oil. July 2012.
Private collection.

7457 Portrait of Bacon .
Canvas/Oil. August 2012.
Private collection.

7458 Still-life with Apples .
Canvas/Oil. August 2007.
Private collection.

7459 Times Square .
Canvas/Oil. September 2013.
Private collection.

7506 Sunset Reflections .
Canvas/Oil. May 2019.
Collection of the artist.

8116 Autumn Snowfall .
Canvas/Oil. November 2006.
Private collection.

8117 Stream in the Woods .
Canvas/Oil. July 2014.
Private collection.

8118 Path to the Beach .
Canvas/Oil. August 2004.
Private collection.

8120 Winter at the Farm .
Canvas/Oil. March 2009.
Private collection.

P.S. Lyudmila Karameros kindly invited the author of this essay, Anatoly Voskresensky, and his wife Galina to visit the art workshop at her home in New Jersey and introduce in reality her creative cuisine. Below is a photograph on the background of the artist's paintings:

Anatoliy and Galina Voskresenskiy in the studio of Lyudmila Karameros

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Notes:

• The article was posted on September 24, 2019.
• Last update is April 18, 2020.