Semyon Adolfovich Malt. Soviet graphic artist, poster artist, master of book engravings and prints. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. An artist who laid the foundation of book and easel graphics in Uzbekistan. He is rightly considered one of the originators of the art of prints in Uzbekistan. In 1927 S. Malt came to Uzbekistan and soon joined the creative association ‘Masters of the New East’. Semyon Malt was one of the first in Uzbekistan to raise the poster genre to an artistic level, giving it the features of... далее

Semyon Adolfovich Malt. Soviet graphic artist, poster artist, master of book engravings and prints. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. An artist who laid the foundation of book and easel graphics in Uzbekistan. He is rightly considered one of the originators of the art of prints in Uzbekistan. In 1927 S. Malt came to Uzbekistan and soon joined the creative association ‘Masters of the New East’. Semyon Malt was one of the first in Uzbekistan to raise the poster genre to an artistic level, giving it the features of high art. In 1928 he graduated from the Polygraphic Faculty of VKhUTEIN, in the first years of his creative work Semyon Malt was under the influence of V.A. Favorsky. In 1932 Semyon Malt travels to Issyk-Kul. ‘I wanted to, - says the artist - to create a series of landscapes about the beauty of nature and at the same time to break the opinion of the foreignness of the landscape to the Soviet viewer'. His Issyk-Kul landscapes were acknowledged by the artistic community. A significant place in his life is the work with a team of graphic artists from Tashkent at Chirchikstroy (1940). The artists spent more than a year at the construction site. The artists made satirical sketches for ‘Chirchikstroy Crocodile’, art sketches for newspapers and magazines, portrait galleries, landscapes and genre scenes. A kind of Malta's report on this trip was a series of easel sheets ‘Chirchikstroy’, shown at the Republican exhibition in 1940. The artist passed the Great Patriotic War as a private, but he did not forget about his other weapon. He cut engravings on linoleum, which were used as clichés in the division newspaper, and created posters for army agitation windows. Returning to Tashkent, he created graphic sheets ‘9 May in Prague’, ‘On the Roads of War’, ‘Night Alarm’ (1947), worked on political posters, book illustration, book design. Widely known are his posters ‘How much cotton have you gathered today?’, ‘We won in battles - let's win in labour’ (1946), ‘Let's give the Motherland 1 million 600 thousand tonnes of cotton’ (1948) and others. From creative business trips to collective farms and people's construction sites he brings landscapes and portrait sketches. In 1960 there was an exhibition of graphic works of the artist, it was held in honour of the 60th anniversary of his birth and 30 years of creative activity of Semyon Adolfovich. Most of S.A. Malta's works did not make it into museum collections, but his graphics are represented in the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan, his graphic original and circulation posters are kept in the fonds of the Russian State Library, private collections in Russia and Great Britain, the USA. скрыть