Czech, 20th century, male.
Born 23 March 1887, in Hronov nad Metuji; died March 1945, in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in the concentration camp.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, illustrator. Figure compositions, figures. Stage sets.
Socialist Realism.
Groups: Mánes, Skupina Vytvarnych Umelcu (Group of Plastic Artists).
Josef Capek was the brother of the playright Karel Capek, the author of ...
(Mikhaylovich)
(b Kozlov [now Michurinsk, Tambov region], Aug 12, 1881; d Moscow, July 23, 1963).
Russian painter, stage designer and administrator. He studied at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow (1903–15) under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolay Kasatkin and Korovin, Konstantin (Alekseyevich), among others. At the School he emerged as a leader of a group of traditionalists who contended with the avant-garde led by Mikhail Larionov. After service in the army he returned to Kozlov, where he worked as a stage designer and decorated the town for revolutionary festivities. In 1925 he moved to Moscow, where he was a member of the
Gerasimov’s work is significant as representative of a solemn ‘heroic realism’ (e.g. Lenin on the Tribune, 1929–30; Moscow, Cent. Lenin Mus.), later considered a paradigm of Socialist Realism. He painted a series of pompous official portraits of Soviet leaders (e.g. ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1893, in Moscow; died 1973, in Moscow.
Painter. Stage sets.
Socialist Realism.
Boris Ioganson studied first with Petr Ivanovich Kelin before attending the institute of painting, sculpture and architecture in Moscow from 1912 to 1918
He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of Socialist Realism; the subjects and the style of his relatively few works conform to the directives of the official line. Ioganson also wrote on painting and designed a number of theatre sets. A member of the USSR Academy of Arts, he was its president ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1903, in Moscow; died 1977, in Moscow.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver. Genre scenes, scenes with figures, urban landscapes. Stage sets.
Socialist Realism.
Association of Easel Painters.
Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov was taught by Sergei Vasilievich Malyutin, Dmitri Nikolaevich Kardovsky, Vadim Dmitrievich Falileev, and Dmitri Favorsky in Moscow. He later travelled to Italy and Germany. In ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1875, in Moscow; died 1958, in Moscow.
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Local scenes, landscapes. Stage sets.
Symbolism, Socialist Realism.
Groups: Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR).
Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon studied under Abram Arkhipov, Konstantin Korovin, and Konstantin Savitsky at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture from 1892 to 1898 and in the studio of Valentin A. Serov from 1898 to 1900. He then went travelling to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and France, and on his return taught in his own studio in Moscow from 1900 to 1917. He taught at the USSR Academy of Art (1934–1935) and the Moscow Art Institute (1952–1955)....
