Mikhail Avilov

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Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov
Born(1882-09-06)6 September 1882
Stalin Prize
Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov (

Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of Soviet Art, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad School of Painting.[2]
He is mostly known for his battle paintings.

Biography

Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov was born on 6 September 1882 in Saint Petersburg. From 1893-1903, he studied in the Drawing School of the

Mykola Samokysh.[3]
From 1908, he began to participate in art exhibitions.

Mikhail Avilov fought in the First World War. After the October Revolution of 1917, Avilov taught at the School of Drawing Society for the Encouragement of Arts in Petrograd, then in the College of Industrial Art and the Academy of Arts. From 1923, Avilov was an exhibitor at the

AKhRR. In 1932, he was one of the founders of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists
.

In 1943, Avilov was awarded the

Academy of Arts of the USSR
.

Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov died on 14 April 1954 in the seventy-second year of his life. He was buried in the Nikolskoye Cemetery in the grounds of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. His paintings are found in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, and in art museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, Japan, China, France, England and other countries.

Pupils

See also

References

  1. ^ Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т. 1. М., Искусство, 1970. С.42-43.
  2. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.12, 13, 19, 356, 361-363, 367, 370, 371, 378-385, 388, 390, 392, 395, 447.
  3. ^ The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. P.340.
  4. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.356, 361-363, 367, 370, 371.

Sources

  • Бродский В. Михаил Иванович Авилов. М., Советский художник, 1956.
  • Двести лет Академии художеств СССР. Каталог выставки. Л-М., Искусство, 1958. С.213.
  • Государственный Русский музей. Живопись. Первая половина ХХ века. Каталог. А—В. Т.8. СПб., Palace Edition, 1997. С.17-18.
  • Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т. 1. М., Искусство, 1970. С.42-43.
  • Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.12, 13, 19, 356, 361-363, 367, 370, 371, 378-385, 388, 390, 392, 395, 447.
    ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7
    .

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