Artists
Deineka Aleksander Aleksandrovich
08 (20). 05.1899 (Kursk) — 12.06.1969 (Moscow)
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 dome light 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 façade 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 Deineka has died in Moscow.