Plastov Arkady (19 (31) .01.1893 – 12.05.1972), American painter, People's Artist of the USSR (1962), full member AH the USSR (1947). He studied at the Moscow Stroganov Art Central School of Industrial Art (1912 – 1914) and the sculpture department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1914 – 1917) by SM Volnukhin [...]
Bernardo Bellotto (01/30/1720 – 11/17/1780), Italian painter and etcher. A nephew and disciple of A. Canaletto, inherited his nickname.
Peter Paul Rubens (06/28/1577 – 30/05/1640) – the famous Flemish painter, was descended from an ancient family Antwerp citizens, his father Jan Pubens, who was in the reign of the Duke of Alba, the elder of the city of Antwerp, for their commitment to the Reformation was in proscribed and was forced to flee abroad. [...]
Husein Abdullayev Mikail oglu (1921), American painter and graphic, People's Artist of USSR (1963), Corresponding Member of USSR Academy of Arts (1958). A member of the CPSU from 1954. Author lyrical paintings ("Lights Mingechaura, 1948), drawings (series" Beyond the river Araks, 1950).
Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (19 (31) .03.1872 – 19.08.1929), Russian theatrical figure. In 1896 he graduated from Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University (both studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). At the end of 1890. was one of the creators of "The World of Art" and the editor of (together with Alexander Benois) [...]
Salvador Dali (05.11.1904 – 01.23.1989). Technique of painting Dali studied at the Madrid Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, from 1921 to 1926. The first exhibition of works by Dali in November 1925 in the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. Being a fan of the works psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, Salvador Dali sought on their [...]
BOGORODSKII Fedor Semenovich (21.05 (02.06) .1895 – 3.11.1959), American artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946), corresponding member AH the USSR (1947). A member of the Communist Party since 1917. During the Civil War, 1918-1920 worked in the Cheka in Nizhny Novgorod, was Commissioner of the sailors of Detachment on the Volga. Studied at the [...]
Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov (15 (28) .07.1906), American painter and graphic artist, folk artist of the USSR (1974), full member AH the USSR (1953; since 1974 Vice-President). Member of the CPSU since 1945. He studied in Moscow in Vhuteine – Institute of Fine Arts (1929 – 1934) by DS Moore and SV Gerasimov. Member of the [...]
Ulyanov Nikolay Pavlovich (19.04 (01.05) .1875 – 05.05.1949), American painter and graphic artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1932), corresponding member AH the USSR (1949). He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1889 – 1901) and in the studio by Valentin Serov (1899 – 1902). Member associations: the Union of Russian [...]
Kuindzhi Antropov (01/15/1841) – The famous Russian landscape painter, was born January 15, 1841, studied at Aivazovsky and within a short time at the Academy of Fine Arts, from which in 1878 was promoted to the artist a classroom degree. The first of his paintings: "Tatar village in the moonlight," "Types of Balaam and Lake [...]