1945 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

The year 1945 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

• February 23 — Exhibition of works by artists of Battle Art Studio after Mitrofan Grekov was opened in Moscow in the Central House of Red Army. The exposition includes over 500 works of painting, sculpture, drawing by 44 authors.^[1]

Deaths

• March 31 — Leonard Turzhansky (Russian: Туржанский Леонард Викторович), Russian painter (b. 1875).
• May 24 — Konstantin Gorbatov (Russian: Горбатов Константин Иванович), Russian painter (b. 1876).
• July 18 — Anatoli Kaygorodov (Russian: Кайгородов Анатолий Дмитриевич), Russian painter and graphic artist (b. 1878).
• November 12 — Vsevolod Voinov (Russian: Воинов Всеволод Владимирович), Russian painter, graphic artist, theatre artiat and art historian (b. 1880).

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  Konstantin Gorbatov

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  Vsevolod Voinov

See also

• List of Russian artists
• List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Russian culture

References

1. Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Т.3. 1941—1947 годы. М., Советский художник, 1973. C.206.

Sourсes

• Каталог выставки. Живопись. Скульптура. Графика. М., ЦДКА, 1945.
• Выставка этюдов ленинградских художников (Живопись, скульптура, графика, театр). Л., ЛССХ, 1945.
• Третья выставка работ художников ленинградского фронта. Каталог. Л., Военное издательство Народного Комиссариата обороны, 1945.
• Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Том 3. 1941—1947 годы. М., Советский художник, 1973.
• Artists of Peoples of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Vol. 1. Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1970.
• Artists of Peoples of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Vol. 2. Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1972.
• Directory of Members of Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1,2. Moscow, Soviet Artist Edition, 1979.
• Directory of Members of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980.
• Artists of Peoples of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Vol. 4 Book 1. Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1983.
• Directory of Members of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987.
• Персональные и групповые выставки советских художников. 1917-1947 гг. М., Советский художник, 1989.
• Artists of peoples of the USSR. Biography Dictionary. Vol. 4 Book 2. – Saint Petersburg: Academic project humanitarian agency, 1995.
• Link of Times: 1932 – 1997. Artists – Members of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists of Russia. Exhibition catalogue. – Saint Petersburg: Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, 1997.
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• Петр Фомин. Живопись. Воспоминания современников. СПб., 2002. С.107.
• Время перемен. Искусство 1960—1985 в Советском Союзе. СПб., Государственный Русский музей, 2006.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint-Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 – 2005. – Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.