Born in Lugansk (Ukraine) 1910.
Studied at Zaporozhe Arts and Crafts School 1923-26;
Moscow VKHUTEMAS 1926-27; Kiev Art Institute 1928-32. Active in
Kharkov, Ukraine, 1932-43;
Kiev, Ukraine, thereafter. Began exhibiting 1932? Important shows
include "Twenty
Years of the Workers' and Peasatns' Red Army", Moscow, 1938; "INDUSTRY
OF
SOCIALISM", Moscow, 1939; "All-Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1947;
"All-Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1949; "All-Union Art Exhibition",
Moscow, 1950; "All-Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1951; "All- Union Art
Exhiibition", Moscow, 1955. Known as a leading painter of everyday-life
genre
subjects late 1940s-early 1950s. Well-known works include Admission
into the Komsomol
(1949; Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art); The Goalkeeper
(1949; Tretyakov Gallery); Discussion
of the Low Mark (1950; Tretyakov Gallery); He's
Come Back (1954; Tretyakov
Gallery). Taught at Kharkov Art Institute 1933-34; Kiev Art Institute
from 1934; head of
creative studios of USSR Academy of Arts, Kiev, from 1962. Became a
Soviet academician
1953/54? Awarded STALIN PRIZES 1950, 1951; awarded the title "People's
Artist of the
USSR" 1974. Also a graphic artist. Died 1980s.
(Matthew Cullerne Bown:
Russian and Soviet Painters. Ilomar, London)
"Stalin at a Session of Politicians at the Kremlin", oil on canvas, 144 x 178cm.