Deineka Alexander Alexandrovich - Russian Painter
Deineka Alexander Alexandrovich - Russia 1899-1969
Complete Biography & many more works
One of the great prolific Russian illustrators and painters who managed to coexist with the Soviet power structure before, during, and after World War II. A Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century.He is in the highest category 1A - a world famous artist in United Artists Rating.
1899 - Deineka was born in Kursk, in family of the worker-railwayman. Studied in railway school and simultaneously visited art studio.
1915--1917 -- study in the Kharkov Art College.
1918 -- comes back to Kursk, works as the photographer, makes out revolutionary holidays, designed campaigned trains, theatrical performances
1919--1920 -- Red Army and supervises over art studio.
1921--1925 -- studies at polygraphic faculty VHUTEMAS at V.A. Favorsky. With 1924 starts to cooperate actively as the artist in magazines. One of organizers Stander's Society (OST).
1929 -- leaves OST, enters Art Union October. He illustrates children's books, manages a section of the poster in Polygraphic Institute
1932 -- draws a monumental panel Civil aircraft.
1934 -- creative trip to Sevastopol.
1935 -- creative business trip to the USA, France, Italy. Coming back, draws big series cycle of water-colors and pictures.
1937 -- the Gold Medal of the World Art Exibition in Paris for the panel Noble people USSR.
1938 -- a mosaic series A day and night of Soviet sky in the metro station Mayakovskaya.
1939 -- painting of plafond for restaurant of the Central Theatre of the Soviet Army.
1942 -- after trip on the front he creates the graphic series Roads of war.
1945 -- in May creative trip to Berlin.
1947 -- a title of member of the Art Academy USSR is awarded him.
1947--1953 -- he works as a sculptor with wood, a majolica, bronze, cement. He creates the mosaic portraits of great scientists of the world for a new building of Moscow University.
1958 -- comes back in the Moscow Art Institute it. V.I. Surikova, supervises over a monumental workshop.
1959 -- works above a series of mosaics.
1960 -- the main artist of construction of the Kremlin palace of congresses.
1965 -- makes out a mosaic a facade of sanatorium in Sochi. A trip to Italy.
1969 -- the personal exhibition in halls of the Academy of Arts on June, 5th opens.
1969 -- on June, 12th Alexander Aleksandrovich Dejneka has died in Moscow.
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